Hardware Development Engineer

Purpose of the job

As a hardware development engineer based in Lannion, you will have responsibilities for developing, debugging and testing hardware modules for our OTN/WDM hardware platforms. You will integrate an international hardware design team (France / Brazil) to develop, transponders, optical amplifiers, ROADMs, OTN Line and Switching cards for optical transport networks.

Skills & Education

• Engineer with strong hardware background

Main knowledge

• Strong knowledge in analog, digital and RF design :
  • Clocking system (PLL, TCXO, VCXO…)
  • Power distribution (DC/DC converter, LDO…)
  • Analog and digital conversion (CAN, DAC…)
  • Programmable devices architecture (µC, FPGA, CPLD…)
  • Serial interfaces design (I2C, SPI, PCIe, Ethernet…)
• Experienced with high-speed PCB design (>20Gb, Microstrip, Stripline, Coplanar…)
• Good knowledge on VHDL development for FPGA and CPLD matrix (Altera, Xilinx, Lattice…)
• Strong skill in CAD system (Schematic, Layout, Simulation, PLM…). Knowledge on Mentor tools would be appreciated.
• Good knowledge in test bench setup (Oscilloscope, protocol analyzer, BERT…) and used to develop Python scripts for test automation.
• Good understanding in Telecom and Datacom standards (SONET/SDH, Ethernet, OTN, Fiber channel…) and in telecom optical subsystems (QSFPs, optical amplifiers, ..).
• Used to Agile development methodology (Scrum, Kanban)

Experience

Minimum of 5 years in hardware development is required.

Particular abilities

• You are used to work in a telecom environment
• You are comfortable working in an international environment in English language
• You are autonomous and self-learning
• You are continuously looking for improvement and you make proposals and alerts