HW Design Engineer

Posting Date: 21 Oct 2025

City: Roma

Location:Roma, Italy, 131

Contract Type: Permanent

Division: Electronics and System Engineering

Level of experience: Intermediate

RINA is currently recruiting for a HW Design Engineer to join its office in L'Aquilawithin the Electronics and System Engineering Division.

Mission

The role focuses on contributing to the design and verification of complex digital boards, managing high-speed signals, developing power management solutions, and ensuring signal and power integrity also with the use of electromagnetic simulation software tools. You will be involved in integration and testing activities, as well as preparing detailed project documentation and participating in technical reviews with customers.

Key Accountabilities

Hardware Design:

• Contribute to designing of complex digital boards based on FPGA and microcontrollers.

• Contribute to the development of impedance-controlled boards for high-speed signal management and routing.

• Create power management and distribution boards.

Signal and Power Integrity:

• Ensure design for signal integrity and power integrity under the supervision of Senior Hardware Engineer.

• Conduct board and component analysis, simulation, and design under the supervision of Senior Hardware Engineer.

• Intraboard and multiboard high-speed bus analysis.

• Analysis of the respect of the manufacturer guideline for board fabrication.

Integration and Testing:

• Perform integration and test activities in the laboratory environment under the supervision of Senior Hardware Engineer.

• Conduct thorough testing to validate design performance and reliability under the supervision of Senior Hardware Engineer.

Documentation:

• Prepare comprehensive project documentation including Technical Data Packages, Production Packages, Test Requirements, and Test Procedures.

• Ensure all documentation meets industry standards and customer requirements.

Customer Interaction:

• Present project technical reviews to customers, providing clear and concise explanations of design choices and progress.

• Address customer inquiries and incorporate feedback into design improvements.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electronic/TLC Engineering or Electronics

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in hardware design, preferably in aerospace applications.
• Proficiency in designing digital boards with FPGA and microcontrollers.
• Experience with impedance-controlled board design for high-speed signals.
• Knowledge of power management and distribution board design.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity and power integrity principles.
• Proficient in hardware simulation and analysis tools.
• Good to have: proficiency in using Siemens HyperLynx, Ansys HFSS e/o Dassault CST, MathWorks Matlab.

Competencies

• CLIENT INTIMACY - Embrace internal and external client needs, expectations, and requirements to ensure maximum satisfaction
• EARN TRUST - Take everyone's opinion into account and remain open to diversity
• PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - Promote commitment by keeping promises as a Role Model
• MANAGE EMOTIONS - Recognise one's and other's emotions and express and regulate one's reactions
• PIONEER CHANGE - Actively embrace change and benefit from the new circumstances
• BUILD NETWORK - Forge trust relationships, across departments, and outside the organization
• MAKE EFFECTIVE DECISIONS - Structure activities according to priorities, actions, resources and constraint
• ADDRESS THE WAY - Have a big picture of different situations and reinterpret it in a perspective way
• THINK FORWARD - Capitalise on experiences and translate them into action plans for the future

With over 5,600 employees and 200 offices in 70 countries worldwide, RINA is a multinational player which provides certification, marine classification, product testing, site supervision and vendor inspection, training and engineering consultancy services across a wide range of sectors. Our business model covers the full process of project development, from concept to completion. The aim is to guarantee a project's technical, environmental and safety - and sometimes also economic and financial - sustainability.

At RINA, we endeavor to create a work environment where every single person is valued and encouraged to develop new ideas. We provide equal employment opportunities and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels respected and safe from discrimination or harassment of any kind. We are also compliant to the Italian Law n. 68/99.