When the world’s top medical device OEMs and academic institutes need real-time medical instrument navigation, they call NDI. Why? Because no one can rival the accuracy and reliability of our optical measurement and electromagnetic tracking solutions. NDI team members are passionate about delivering innovative technology that will help to unlock new procedures and solutions. Interested in becoming a valued member of the NDI team? We’re growing and looking for great people to join us.

Our team of professionals at the Northern Digital Inc. (NDI) office located in Shelburne, Vermont are currently recruiting for a Hardware Design Engineer with experience in product design and development.

How You Will Make an Impact

You will be responsible for detailed design and development of electromagnetic tracking systems, from conception to implementation, and will work as part of a cross-functional R& D team, building solutions for our OEM partners. This role requires someone with a proven record of implementing and integrating embedded hardware systems. The successful candidate will be dependable, highly organized, and effective at hardware design and implementation, as well as system integration, documentation support and test.

The successful candidate will be joining our team of professionals at the Northern Digital office located in Shelburne, Vermont.

What you’ll be Doing:

In addition to hardware design, you are expected to:

• Design to NDI’s internal development standards, and produce associated technical documentation to meet design control requirements, including documenting requirements and specifications
• Help the team to collaborate and integrate designs with the embedded system software group
• Prepare material and participate in peer reviews
• Participate in defining/developing appropriate tests for the embedded designs
• Ensure completion is timely, striving to meet or exceed project milestones

What you’ll bring to the role:

• BS or advanced degree in Electrical engineering or other related technical discipline, with 5+ years of experience doing HW design.
• Circuit and layout design and review for mixed signal circuits
• Familiarity with lab equipment used to circuit analysis and troubleshoot
• Signal processing concepts
• ARM processors, FPGA design, wireless/Bluetooth design, digital interfaces
• Familiarity with Python, Linux, Altium
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks including Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket
• A fit with NDI culture: Be Different, Be Better; Customer First; Be Genuine & Honest; Win Together
• Excellent problem solving and trouble shooting skills
• Ability to initiate and take on work independently with minimal guidance
• Good personal organization as well as written and oral communication skills
• Capability for generating technical design documentation

Desired Characteristics/Additional Assets:

• Magnetics/physics/mathematics background
• Analog design, including Spice simulation knowledge
• Experience integrating with FPGAs

Quality Requirements:

NDI is committed to achieving excellence in our Quality activities, which is dependent upon the processes, practices and employees of NDI. Our objective is to maintain a Quality Management System in compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 13485, the US FDA Quality System Regulation as well as any additional regulatory requirements of the markets in which our products are sold. This ensures that our OEM medical partners receive the highest quality instrumentation from NDI. Employees of NDI are instrumental in our compliance efforts and are required to understand and comply with the QMS.

• The Hardware Design Engineer is accountable for delivering quality hardware artifacts, which are designed, documented, developed and tested to meet NDI design control requirements.

Why NDI in Shelburne, Vermont:

• Generous employer-paid benefits
• Company-wide bonus program and annual salary
• Competitive salary with a 401k match of up to 4%.
• Employee stock purchase
• Starting at 3 weeks’ vacation plus a company-wide Holiday shut-down in December.
• Employee social and engagement events throughout the year.
• Subsidized professional development and training opportunities.
• A Best Places to Work in Vermont 2024 Employer.
• Growing global company with offices in Canada, USA, Germany, and Hong Kong.

Being a Part of our Team:

When you walk through our doors, you will find an open-concept office that promotes collaborative teamwork and fresh ideas. We enjoy tackling new challenges and developing new pathways to serve our customers. We are looking for innovative, hard-working individuals who don’t see this as just a job, but as a career choice. If this sounds like you, our HR team would love to hear from you. Follow the instructions below to submit your application.

We thank all candidates for their interest in joining NDI; however, only candidates invited for an interview will be contacted. Agency calls will not be accepted. For more information about NDI and this position, please visit our website: www.ndigital.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)