Hunter Browning

Hunter Browning
ABOUT

I love engineering. I love learning. I love applying what I learn to create solutions. When it comes to what I love, I used to want to be the best - but in my experience nobody is the best alone. When it comes to what I love, I will be part of the best.

I’m a hardware engineer of many hats knee-deep in mixed-signal electronics design, novel materials, circuit boards in every form factor, and the practical details that make hardware work at every scale of production. Portrait of Hunter making a funny face Professionally, my work has included analog stacks for optoelectronic metrology, prototype debug, EMI/ESD robustness, aerospace reliability procedure, and rigorous analytical diligence the likes of which would make an actuary blush.

WORKBENCH
  • Novel optoelectronic materials
  • Laser additive manufacturing and SLS systems
  • Small-scale R&D equipment design
  • Molecular biophysics and surface interactions
  • Accessible lab methods for advanced prototyping
ELSEWHERE
LinkedIn Some more professional background.
GitHub Sparse for now.
YouTube TBA for short tech notes, demos, etc.
SUMMARY

This website is a fruit cake of everything but my kitchen sink and some dubiously acquired samples of my DNA. Only consider the parts you like.

Projects, anecdotes, commentary, research rabbit holes, and some curiosities I keep revisiting abound.

EXPERIENCE SNAPSHOT
  • Mixed-signal hardware: PCB design, analog/digital partitioning, optoelectronic sensing, low-noise layout, and power-aware design.
  • Bring-up + verification: Prototype debug, test planning, lab instrumentation, failure isolation, and practical troubleshooting.
  • Robustness: EMI/ESD, grounding, shielding, thermal limits, enclosure interfaces, and field-service-aware design.
  • Engineering process: ECNs, redlines, substantiation, requirements traceability, V&V closure, configuration control, and aerospace documentation.
BLOG

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TOP SKILLS
  • Mixed-signal PCB design
  • Hardware bring-up + debug
  • Verification test planning
  • EMI/ESD robustness
  • Optoelectronic sensing
  • Requirements + configuration control
  • Lab instrumentation
  • Soldering + rework
  • ASM/C/C++ for hardware support
TOOLING

The Usual™

Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DMMs, AWGs, soldering/rework tools, and failure-isolation setups.

Design Tooling of Choice

Design tooling of choice: KiCad, Altium, LTSpice, PSpice for TI, SolidWorks, MATLAB/Simulink, Python, C/C++, and a meticulous folder of relevant documents.

Honorable mention: a bic crystal and any surface that can take ink.

Dishonorable mention: a sharpie and any surface previously believed to not take ink.

The Unusual™

Formally educated in, but pragmatic with, software dev: util scripts, test helpers, data cleanup, web scraping, and whatever makes hardware work move faster. Sometimes I get serious with it - FPGAs tend to require such finesse.

EDUCATION
BSc, Computer Hardware Engineering
Northern Arizona University · Dec 2023
IEEE - Chapter President++
SAE - BAJA Sim Programmer
ASc, Mathematics
Georgia Military College · Dec 2017
Mathematical Physics Enthusiasts