// Cameron Gordon — Hardware Engineer
Electronics built for space, defense, and everywhere hardware can't fail.
I design environmentally hardened, high-speed digital circuit boards — integrating FPGAs and high-speed memory into systems that survive orbit, the battlefield, and everything in between.
// 01 — Experience
Career timeline
Seven years across space, defense, automotive, and medical hardware — from co-op projects shipping in production Teslas to mission-critical radar and spaceflight systems.
- EDUCATION
B.S. Electrical Engineering
Northeastern University · Summa Cum Laude
Five-year co-op program combining coursework with 21 months of industry experience.
Summa Cum Laude
// 02 — Projects
Selected work
Personal embedded devices and race-car systems — every board designed, laid out, brought up, and validated end to end.
Summit Signal — Iridium IoT SOS Device
2024Personal project · M.S. capstone
Handheld satellite SOS beacon with 100% global coverage — no cell network required.
SmartHand — Motion-Tracking Glove
2023Personal project
Wearable BLE glove that tracks hand and finger motion in real time.
Telemetry Communication Board
2023Northeastern Electric Racing
Live wireless telemetry and GPS tracking for a Formula SAE electric race car.
EV Dashboard & Controls
2022Northeastern Electric Racing
Driver interface and control systems for a formula-style electric vehicle.
300VDC AC/DC EV Charger
2021Northeastern Electric Racing
High-voltage charging system for a championship-winning Formula Hybrid EV.
// 03 — Skills
Tools of the trade
Depth in high-speed digital and embedded hardware, with the firmware and validation skills to carry a board from schematic to qualified product.
PCB Design
- High-Speed Digital Layout
- Analog Circuit Design
- Power Electronics
- RF & Impedance Control
- Design for Manufacturing
- Signal & Power Integrity
Embedded Firmware
- C / C++
- STM32 / ARM Cortex
- I2C · SPI · UART · CAN
- Bluetooth LE
- Bootloaders & Bring-up
FPGA & High-Speed Digital
- FPGA Integration
- High-Speed Memory (DDR)
- Timing & Synchronization
- Radiation-Tolerant Design
- Receiver/Exciter Systems
Test & Validation
- Requirement Validation
- Root Cause Analysis
- Acceptance Test Procedures
- EMC / Noise Debugging
- Design of Experiments
Tools & Software
- Altium Designer
- Python
- MATLAB
- PSpice
- SolidWorks
- Git · Jira · Confluence
// 05 — About
Behind the boards
I'm a hardware engineer at Draper in Cambridge, MA, designing environmentally hardened, high-speed digital circuit boards for space and military systems — the kind of hardware that has to work the first time, every time, in environments where repair isn't an option.
I hold an M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering (4.0 GPA) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from Northeastern University, where co-ops at Tesla, Redwire Space, Fresenius Medical Care, and Liberty Defense gave me 21 months of industry experience before graduating. At Raytheon I led receiver/exciter integration on a $2.2B radar program; today I integrate FPGAs and high-speed memory into boards built to survive orbit.
Off the clock you'll find me building satellite-connected gadgets, in the mountains stress-testing them, or mentoring the next generation of formula EV engineers.
// 06 — Contact
Let's build something
Open to conversations about hardware engineering, interesting problems, and opportunities in aerospace and defense.
The fastest way to reach me is email — I read everything.
camerong888@gmail.com