Technical Lead -Mixed Signal Design

Thales is seeking a Technical Lead for Mixed Signal Design in Bangalore, India. This role involves performing trade-off analysis, understanding system requirements, and designing hardware boards with processors and FPGAs. Key responsibilities include high-speed board design, component selection, power budget calculation, and circuit simulation. The lead will also drive SI/PI analysis, perform board bring-up, and integrate hardware, software, and firmware. Mentoring team members and project monitoring are also part of the role.

Must Have

• 8+ years experience in High speed hardware board design integration, test, root cause analysis and problem solving
• Strong experience troubleshooting electronics and embedded hardware systems
• Experience in component selection and tradeoff analysis
• Experience in developing complex Hardware architecture
• Experience in impedance control and High Speed board development
• Experience in developing Hardware Test plan and Test procedures
• Proficiency in Requirement analysis and validation
• Experience in power tree development using buck, boost regulators
• Experience in Hardware schematics design tools like Cadence Allegro
• Experience in IVVQ (Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification) including requirements management
• Proficiency in developing PCB design constraints
• Proficiency in bus interfaces like I2C, SPI, QSPI, UART, AXI, DDR3/4, PCIe, JTAG
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience in reporting project progress with KPI
• Usage of Lab Equipment like DSO, Logic Analyzer, VNA, Spectrum Analyzer

Responsibilities and Tasks

• Perform trade-off analysis of different technologies and feasibility studies to propose the best architecture design
• Understand system level requirements and create requirements for Hardware Board
• Processor and FPGA based board design
• High Speed Board design with interface like LVDS, RGMII, USB2/3 , DDR3/4, HDMI
• Component selection and trade off analysis
• Power budget calculation , power tree design and circuit simulation
• Power circuit design using switching regulators
• Design for testability
• Drive SI and PI analysis for high density board
• Component de-rating analysis
• Experience developing High density and complex hardware using buried and blind via
• PCB Stack-up analysis and impedance controlled board development
• Component placement analysis on PCB and create placement guide
• Power on test , Board bring up along with Firmware and Software
• Hardware Test plan creation and Hardware Physical Test, Hardware debug, solve integration issues
• Integration of Hardware, Software and Firmware and performs IVVQ
• Communication with PCB Fab, work with PCB layout engineer
• Mentor, drive and guide team members to achieve project objectives
• Proposal preparation, Project scheduling/costing, detailed work brake down for planed execution, identify risk , opportunity and dependency, Project monitoring

Mandatory Skills

• Electronics/ Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of experience on High speed hardware board design integration, test , root cause analysis and problem solving
• Must have strong experience to troubleshoot on electronics and embedded hardware systems to find the root cause and to fix with a suitable solution.
• Must have experience in component selection and tradeoff analysis
• Must have experience in developing complex Hardware architecture
• Must have experience in impedance control and High Speed board development
• Must have experience in developing Hardware Test plan and Test procedures
• Proficiency in Requirement analysis and validation
• Must have experience in power tree development using buck, boost regulators
• Must have experience in Hardware schematics design tools like Cadence Allegro
• Must have experience in the IVVQ (Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification) including requirements management
• Proficiency in developing PCB design constraints
• Proficiency in Different bus interface like I2C, SPI, QSPI, UART, AXI, DDR3/4, PCIe, JTAG
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Must have experience to ensure the reporting progress of the project along with KPI.
• Usage of Lab Equipment like DSO, Logic Analyzer, VNA, Spectrum Analyzer