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Electronic Hardware Product Development Engineer

Location: Fredericksburg, VA
Type: Full-time
Pay: $105,000 to $135,000 / year
Posted: 2026-10-19

About the role

Aspetto is seeking a hands-on Electronic Hardware Product Development Engineer to help develop a new compact electronic product from prototype through production-ready design. This is not a facilities, construction, power distribution, PLC, or building electrical role. This is a hands-on electronic product development role focused on custom hardware, embedded systems, PCB design, battery-powered electronics, sensors, communications-related hardware, prototype testing, and manufacturable design. The selected engineer must be comfortable owning hardware development directly: defining the electrical architecture, designing schematics and PCBs, selecting components, building prototypes, bringing up boards, debugging issues on the bench, documenting revisions, and preparing designs for manufacturing.

Your impact

Develop electrical architecture for compact electronic products
Design schematics and custom printed circuit boards from requirements
Select electronic components based on performance, size, availability, cost, and manufacturability
Design embedded hardware using microcontrollers, processors, sensors, communication interfaces, and peripheral modules
Design power-management systems for battery-powered electronic products
Calculate power budgets, current draw, battery runtime, regulator sizing, thermal margin, and protection requirements
Design and test charging, protection, power regulation, and low-voltage distribution circuits
Assemble, solder, modify, troubleshoot, and improve functional prototypes
Perform PCB bring-up, including first power-on, rail verification, signal testing, interface validation, and hardware debugging
Use oscilloscopes, multimeters, bench power supplies, logic analyzers, soldering tools, and rework equipment
Support hardware-in-the-loop testing and prototype validation
Integrate commercially available modules and components into custom hardware designs
Support communication-related hardware integration, including RF-aware layout considerations, antenna connections, coaxial interfaces, grounding, shielding, and filtering
Develop bills of material, engineering drawings, test procedures, and technical documentation
Coordinate with PCB manufacturers, assembly houses, component suppliers, and contract manufacturers
Review and respond to DFM/DFA feedback
Maintain configuration control through prototype revisions
Improve designs for reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, and production readiness
Work closely with internal engineering, product development, and manufacturing personnel

What you bring

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field
Five or more years of hands-on electronic product development experience
Experience personally designing custom PCBs from schematic through layout, fabrication package, assembly, bring-up, and revision
Experience with PCB bring-up, hardware debugging, board-level troubleshooting, and prototype rework
Experience developing battery-powered or portable electronic products
Experience with embedded systems design, including microcontrollers, processors, sensors, UART, SPI, I2C, GPIO, ADCs, or similar interfaces
Experience designing or integrating power-management circuits, regulators, charging circuits, protection circuits, and low-voltage power systems
Ability to calculate system power requirements, current draw, battery operating duration, and thermal considerations
Experience selecting components and preparing BOMs for manufacturable designs
Experience using standard electronic lab and diagnostic equipment
Ability to personally solder, assemble, modify, and debug prototype electronics
Experience using Altium Designer, OrCAD, KiCad, Eagle, or similar PCB design software
Strong documentation, problem-solving, and communication skills
Ability to work on-site in Fredericksburg, Virginia

What sets you apart

Experience developing compact, rugged, portable, wearable, or field-deployable electronic products
Experience with RF, wireless, SDR, GNSS/GPS, antennas, communication equipment, or RF-adjacent hardware
Familiarity with signal integrity, grounding, shielding, filtering, EMI/EMC considerations, and coaxial RF connections
Experience with hardware-in-the-loop design, automated test setups, or prototype validation systems
Experience moving a product from prototype into low-rate or full production
Experience coordinating with PCB fabricators, PCB assembly vendors, contract manufacturers, and electronics suppliers
Experience with DFM, DFA, component lifecycle management, alternate part selection, and revision control
Familiarity with embedded Linux, Raspberry Pi, compute modules, microcontrollers, or similar hardware platforms
Experience integrating sensors, batteries, displays, wireless modules, GPS/GNSS modules, and user-interface hardware

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Aspetto is an equal opportunity employer. If you need an adjustment to take part in the hiring process, say so below and we will arrange it.