Senior Staff Hardware Design Engineer

Join the Team That's Redefining Wireless Technology

At Tarana, we're more than just a fast-growing tech company—we’re a team of bold innovators on a mission to revolutionize broadband. Our groundbreaking Fixed Wireless Access technology is delivering fiber-class internet speeds worldwide, bridging the digital divide in ways previously thought impossible.

Tarana is a fast revenue growth company built by outstanding talented people and with innovative technology.  Our hardware development team is looking for a smart, experienced, and hardworking member working to design and test Hardware systems in different configurations. The ideal candidate would have 15+ years experience with wireless hardware (5G client devices, base stations, WiFi, etc.) design aspects and will have very deep familiarity with digital, mechanical, analog baseband and RF designs. He or she will also have expertise  using such equipment as spectrum and network analyzers and high speed oscilloscopes. Experience with Ethernet, DDR4 waveforms and protocols, wireless performance tests are desired. Minimum qualifications include a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and 15 years of hardware design and test.

What you’ll be doing:

• Take a leadership role in architecting, designing wireless PCBAs from prototype to NPI and high volume production stage
• Schematics and layout design for innovative high speed wireless systems
• Circuit designs using discretes (passive and active) for integration, filtering, etc.
• Work with extended cross-functional teams of other hardware designers, mechanical engineers, operations engineers and software engineers
• Work with product management, Operations and Engineering leadership to define the requirements and trade-offs
• Provide leadership in value engineering to continuously improve performance and cost
• Understand and make design recommendations to improve radio frequency performance

Ways you'll stand out from the crowd: 

• Bachelor's degree (MS preferred) in Electrical Engineering with 15+ years of relevant Experience
• Wireless hardware design expertise (digital and analog)
• Ability to define subsystem performance requirements, analyze through modeling, simulations
• Design PCBAs and help take them to high volume production
• Work with compliance team to help get regulatory approvals
• Work with RF engineers to test and integrate into products with antennas
• Hardware test equipment usage (eg. spectrum analyzers or power meters)
• Statistical analysis abilities is a plus
• Knowledge of networking
• Ability to create ECOs, Deviations etc. and signoff in Arena BOM management environment
• RF testing and knowledge of S parameters, phase noise and isolation, return loss, etc.

What we offer: 
We don’t just build next-gen wireless tec