Senior Hardware Integration Engineer, NextNav
$150-200k
Plus eligible for participation in annual cash bonus and equity grants
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
3D geolocation for indoor buildings & urban environments
Job no longer available
3D geolocation for indoor buildings & urban environments
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$150-200k
Plus eligible for participation in annual cash bonus and equity grants
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
NextNav's mission is to build the future of location services.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science or equivalent degree
- A minimum of 5 years of experience (7 years with a BS degree) with at least one complete product design lifecycle exposure (from initial board design to final integration in product)
- Able to perform/guide/review schematic, layout, (Orcad, Altium, Mentor PCB tools) and component selection of digital and RF boards
- Experience with board bring-up, debug, and minor rework
- Experience with supporting FW/SW loading and integration with the HW designs
- Experience in lab testing, bring-up and debugging of
- Power sections – good understand of switching/linear regulators
- Clocking, PLL based clock generation and clock distribution
- FPGAs – good understanding of programming modes of FPGAs
- Memory Interfaces – including DDR2/DDR3, serial and parallel Flash devices
- Processors – Understand of booting modes, reset and clocking requirements of ARM based processors
- Troubleshooting of RS232, RS485 serial, I2C, SPI and Ethernet interfaces
- Familiar with RF characterization techniques of high-power transmitters and high-sensitivity receiver sub systems
- Well versed in use and function of lab equipment like Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, Spectrum Analyzers for debugging, measurement, and characterization of interfaces
Desirable
- Worked on positioning and timing systems such as GPS
- Experience with RF front end design such as Mixers, LNA, RF Filters, PAs
- Experience with product enclosure design and mechanicals
- Experience with on board antenna structures and interfaces
- Writing and executing basic C code for exercising and validating Microprocessor interfaces
- Ability to understand, modify, and code simple scripts in Python/Perl
- Familiar with the Linux environment, shell scripting and basic Networking protocols
What the job involves
- This position is for a Senior /Staff Hardware Design and Integration Engineer working on the design, development, integration and verification of prototype and commercial hardware for NextNav beacon and receiver products
- Design and develop HW prototypes/products using identified Of-The-Shelf parts
- Work with 3rd party vendors and consultants for development of digital/RF products including component selection, board design, layout, manufacturing, and assembly of the product.Develop and review schematics, review PCB layouts
- Lead the hardware bring up and integration of the product
- Work closely with the firmware and software teams for functional testing of the product
- Have ability to understand, manage and modify scripts/programs for lab automation, bring up and integration testing
- Work within HW team or across multiple teams (such as systems algorithm, software, test engineering teams) to deliver prototype/product solution
- Interface with program management to estimate/manage schedules for deliverables
Our take
If there’s one major flaw to geolocation software like Google Maps, it’s that they’re only useful on ground level. In its own words, Next Nav is “elevating geolocation” with 3D technology to provide floor-level location data indoors and in urban environments.
From a consumer standpoint, this would make it so much easier to find, say, a store in a mega mall. However, there are far more important benefits for the likes of first responders, infrastructure stakeholders, and construction teams. Indeed, it’s these kinds of services that NextNav has targeted since launching in 2008.
The company has grown immensely since then, going public in 2021. Interestingly, the company is eyeing the gaming industry as its next frontier, which could be huge considering the growth potential of the VR and Metaverse gaming markets. In late 2022, it partnered with Japanese GPS positioning company Metcom, signifying NextNav's entrance into the Japanese market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2020
$120m
SERIES E
Sep 2016
$8.7m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $267.9m
Company benefits
- Health & Dental Insurance
- 401(K) Matching
- Parental Leave
- Generous Paid Vacation
Company HQ
Sunnyvale, CA
Leadership
Ganesh Pattabiraman
(CEO)Board Member at the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) since 2017. Spent a decade at tech hardware corporation Qualcomm before co-founding NextNav.
Arun Raghupathy
(Senior VP of Engineering)Previously worked in GPS Systems Engineering for global semiconductor company Texas Instruments, after spending five years at Qualcomm.
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