Lead Hardware Engineer (Atlanta, GA based)

Why Join Cognosos

We are developing next generation wireless asset tracking solutions. The team develops high reliability hardware and systems to provide customers with real time location data for all of their high value assets. Our solution uses minimal infrastructure to track locations of assets combining machine learning and other localization techniques. We are currently tracking hundreds of thousands of assets and processing more than 2 million messages per day.

Our team has decades of experience developing leading edge products for a variety of industries.

Our headquarters is located in the heart of Midtown, on the corner of Spring and 12th. We provide free parking, catered lunches on Wednesdays, and plenty of team building activities. You will quickly ramp up and join a fast-growing Atlanta based tech startup community at Cognosos.

Cognosos is a proud member of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2022 list of Best Places to Work!

Technologies We Work With

• Battery powered microcontroller devices
• Embedded Linux systems
• Proprietary radio networks, BLE, GPS
• FPGA based software defined radios
• Printed antenna design
• Rapid prototyping
• RF Test equipment
• High reliability electronics and mechanical systems
• Machine Learning

What You’ll Do

You will lead the development of next generation asset tracking hardware. This role is for our Lead Hardware Engineer.

• Lead cross functional development projects
• Interface with product, field, and business stakeholders to develop technical and product requirements
• Meet product function and cost objectives by creating innovative hardware and firmware designs
• Contribute to PCB level designs using Altium
• Specificity and work with Mechanical Engineers to develop electronic enclosures
• Develop and execute EVT, DVT, and PVT plans
• Design products that can be manufactured and tested in high volume production
• Test and qualify prototype products using bench tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, temperature chambers and PC test software

More about you

• BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• 10 years of industry experience
• Experience with PCB design and simulation tools. We use Altium.
• Documented work using C, C++, Python in real-time embedded systems
• Comfortable working in Linux terminals and headless environments
• Experience in wireless communications and RF engineering
• Experience in low power, battery operated product design using ARM MCUs
• Familiarity with high volume product development and processes
• Experience using IC level protocols, such as I2C, SPI, UART, CAN.
• Good communication skills
• Eager to learn and expand your skill set

Benefits:

• Salary commensurate with candidate’s experience and track record of success
• Full benefits (health, dental, vision, 401(k) life, short-term disability and unlimited paid time off)
• Opportunity for equity participation

You might not have experience with everything we’ve listed, and that’s okay. We want to learn what you know and help you learn new things.