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Senior Hardware Designer

  • Montréal, QC
  • Hybrid
  • Posted Oct 9, 2026
  • 1 position

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Employment type
Full-time
Experience level
Lead · 10+ years
Minimum education
Bachelor’s degree
Posting language
English
Working hours
40 hours per week

Job summary

Contribute to telecommunications hardware development from architecture and requirements through circuit design, schematics, PCB oversight, bring-up, validation, and certification. Support production, test development, manufacturing, customer support, and product lifecycle management, including obsolescence and hardware changes.

Job details

About the role: As a Senior Hardware Designer, you will contribute to every stage of the development of telecommunications systems and electronic circuits: architecture, specifications, electrical schematics, bring-up, validation, and certification. You will also support the production, test development, and customer support teams. What you'll do: Participate in defining the architecture and requirements of new products. Contribute to the design of new hardware products, from concept through mass production. Design electronic circuits and produce the associated electrical schematics. Oversee printed circuit board design, taking component placement, shielding, and heat dissipation into account. Lead the bring-up and debugging of new products. Oversee the certification of new products for safety, electromagnetic compatibility, shock, and vibration. Support new product introduction teams in test development and printed circuit board manufacturing. Manage the product lifecycle, including obsolescence management and hardware changes. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. At least 10 years of professional experience in digital and analog circuit development. Experience designing high-speed electronic circuits. Good command of both French and English, spoken and written; spoken French is required. Strong oscilloscope debugging skills, along with a high degree of autonomy and attention to detail. Assets: Experience with RF signal analyzers and network analyzers. Knowledge of cellular technologies (GSM, UMTS, LTE, 5G, etc.). Experience in RF design. Knowledge of VHDL, Python, and C.

What you’ll do

Contribute to telecommunications hardware development from architecture and requirements through circuit design, schematics, PCB oversight, bring-up, validation, and certification. Support production, test development, manufacturing, customer support, and product lifecycle management, including obsolescence and hardware changes.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and at least 10 years of professional experience developing digital and analog circuits, including high-speed electronic circuits. Candidates need strong oscilloscope debugging skills, autonomy, attention to detail, and spoken and written French and English; RF analysis, cellular technologies, RF design, VHDL, Python, and C are assets.

Listed skills

  • VHDL · Preferred
  • Python · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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  • Digital Circuit Design
  • Analog Circuit Design
  • High-Speed Circuit Design
  • Electronic Circuit Design
  • Electrical Schematics
  • Printed Circuit Board Design
  • Hardware Architecture
  • Product Requirements Definition
  • Product Bring-Up
  • Hardware Debugging
  • Product Validation
  • Product Certification
  • Oscilloscope Debugging
  • RF Design
  • VHDL
  • Python
  • Electromagnetic Interference And Compatibility (EMC/EMI)
  • Bilingual (French/English)
  • 5G Technology
  • Oscilloscope
  • C (Programming Language)
  • Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems
  • LTE (Telecommunication)
  • Analog Electronics
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Customer Support
  • Telecommunications
  • Printed Circuit Board
  • Electronic Circuits
  • Vibrations
  • Debugging
  • French Language
  • Global System For Mobile Communications
  • Energy Dissipation
  • Python (Programming Language)
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • New Product Development
  • Obsolescence Management
  • VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
  • Detail Oriented

Job areas

  • Engineering
  • Technology
  • Manufacturing
  • Hardware Designer
  • Circuit Design Engineer
  • Electrical Engineers

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