• Hardware Engineer III

    PDS Defense (Andover, MA)


    Engineering

    **Hardware Engineer III** Andover, MA Posted: 11/13/2025

    Job Description

    Job ID#:

    214313

    Job Category:

    Engineering

    Position Type:

    Associate - W2

    Shift:

    1

     

    PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking a Hardware Engineer III, in Andover, MA.

    Job Description:

    In this role, you have the opportunity to innovate with high-end embedded technology to solve complex systems. You are a part of a dedicated hardware electrical engineering team that collaborates within hardware and across the organization.

    To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

    • Lab Debug and Verification of complex embedded digital hardware products

    • Production Operations and Customer Support to debug and resolve defects to the circuit and component level

    • Production Operations and Customer Support root-cause-corrective-action (RCCA)

    • Design of complex embedded digital hardware products

    • Design with cutting-edge technology from Intel, Microchip, Xilinx, NVIDIA, TI and beyond

    • Analysis including derating, reliability, and FMECA

    • Schematic integrity checking analysis with Mentor Valydate or equivalent

    • Bill-of-Materials (BOM) Configuration Control Management

    • Component Selection and End-of-Life Parts Management

    • Interacts with architecture/system engineering, program/product management, CAD & SI, ME, FW/SW, purchasing, and Manufacturing Operations

    • Design modules that include processors, network switches, backplanes, and IO modules

    • Designs using high-speed digital design interfaces including Ethernet, PCIe, DDR SDRAM Memory. Other support circuitry to include DC/DC power, Clocking, JTAG, SPI, I2C, UARTs

    • Develop schematics using Cadence DEHDL (Concept) or equivalent

    • Use of HW LAB tools: Oscilloscopes and DVMs for verification and debug

    • Lab Debug skills for both HW/SW that range from new development to continued sustaining

     

    Education: Bachelor or Master's of Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

     

    Work Experience: 7+ Years

     

    Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.

    Job Requirements

    Minimum Security Clearance:

    No Clearance

     

    Military connected talent encouraged to apply.

     

    VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled

     

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    The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

    + The California Fair Chance Act

    + Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

    + Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

    + San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

     

    VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled