Hardware Engineer 2

Engineering

Hardware Engineer 2 Rolling Meadows, IL Posted: 8/27/2026

Job Description

Job ID#:

225215

Job Category:

Engineering

Position Type:

Associate - W2

Duration:

26

Shift:

1

Positions Available:

3

PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking a Hardware Engineer 2, in Rolling Meadows, IL. Job ID#225215

Pay Rate: $76 - $81/hr

Job Description:

As a Hardware Design Engineer 2, you will join our diverse team and be responsible for research, design, and development of digital hardware products. Your expertise in digital component design and analysis, modeling and simulation, circuit level design and test, and project leadership are desired for this position. Researches, designs, develops, and tests a variety of electronic equipment and systems, including radar and radiation detection equipment; radio, television and other communications equipment and systems; circuitry components; analog and digital computers; and control and test equipment.

This position will be full-time, on-site at the Rolling Meadows, IL. location.

Basic Qualifications for a Principal Digital Design Engineer:

• Bachelors' degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline with a minimum 5 years of digital electronics design experience or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline and 3 years of digital electronics design experience.

• Digital circuit design experience, including simulation & schematic capture through test and integration

• Prior hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex digital subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving FPGAs, and/or embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces.

• Demonstrated ability to lead projects with 2 or less team members.

• Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications.

• Familiarity with documentation revision control and review systems similar to DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest.

• US Citizen

• Current Active Secret Clearance with additional customer specified clearance prior to start.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with a minimum 10 years of digital electronics design experience.

• Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems.

• Experience in Aerospace and/or Defense industries.

• Recent circuit card design experience utilizing circuit-related tools including Cadence Concept, Allegro, and/or Mentor Dx Designer, Expedition.

• Working experience with ClearCase/ClearQuest and DOORS Current Secret or Top-Secret Security Clearance.

• Proven skills to include: team leadership, mentoring others, communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, being adaptable, creative, collaborative and also comfortable working independently and enjoying solving difficult problems.

Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.

Job Requirements

Minimum Security Clearance:

Secret

Military connected talent encouraged to apply.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act

• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled