# Hans W. > Hardware System Architect Safety and Security Aligned | Automotive High Compute and Interfaces | Flight Systems | IC Design Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/hansw Automotive High-Compute Architectures and Interfaces, Automotive Storage, expert for automotive data and video transport delivering significant innovation and technology leadership. Multidisciplinary experience in advanced mixed critical system design, functional safety, security, virtualization, multi-SoC, high-speed board design and interfaces, high efficiency power delivery, thermal management and consistent hands-on 1st time right rapid prototyping. Commercial and Military Aerospace ECUs for Cabin Pressure Control and Air Data Systems for Airbus and Boeing aircrafts, FADS for X31-VECTOR, and Flight Control for Tiger Helicopter and Eurofighter Experience with PCIe, USB, Automotive SerDes Technology GMSL, HDBaseT, VESA DP/DSC and more Experience in ASIC/FPGA/RFID design and verification ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer, Engineering Concepts and Compute, Autonomous Driving @ Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2026 | San Jose, CA Advanced Mixed Critically Architectures, multi-SoC compute platforms, FLASH Storage and high capacity automotive interfaces with special interest in high-speed data and video channels. Predevelopment of industry leading video channels for the MBUX HyperScreen and for industry leading 100W PowerDelivery in Automotive USB Type-C SystemVerilog development and simulation environments for FPGA SoC devices and use of FPGA development boards for video and image processing. VESA DisplayPort (DP) Automotive Extension Services, Technical Contributor ### Staff IC Design Engineer @ Intelleflex Jan 2007 – Jan 2013 | Santa Clara, California Intelleflex is now Zest Labs - Design lead and architect of the micro architecture for the first IEC 18000-6:2010 Type C RFID. Owned FPGA emulation platform and architectural and functional design documents. Design lead for battery operated multi-sensor tags, temperature, humidity, ambient light, and accelerometers. Owned schematic design, HW bring-up, design documentation and product qualification plan. ### Senior Staff Design and Verification Engineer, IC-Design @ Alien Technology Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 | Morgan Hill, California, United States Higgs-3 RFID Development, Memory Controller Design, SystemVerilog Test Bench and FPGA emulation platform for pre-tapeout verification and systems testing (EPC Class 1 Gen 2) ### Mngr. Opto-Electronics / Senior Staff Engineer @ LuxN, Inc Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 | Sunnyvale, California Development of chassis-based optical networking modules for CWDM and DWDM optical transport FC, GbE, OC-48, OC-192 and 10GbE ### VHDL Development and Sensor Design @ Nord-Micro part of Collins Aerospace Jan 1996 – Jan 2000 | Frankfurt am Main, Germany VHDL RTL design and synthesis of filter and pressure algorithms and design of high performance Air Data Modules. Air Data, Engine Control and X31-VECTOR Flush Air Data System (FADS) ### Manager Electronics Design @ Nord-Micro part of Collins Aerospace Jan 1988 – Jan 1991 | Frankfurt am Main, Germany Electronics Design, Test and Qualification of Flight Control, Cabin Pressure Control and Air Data Systems for commercial and military aircrafts, Airbus, Boeing, Saab 2000, JAS 39 Gripen, Tiger Helicopter and Eurofighter Typhoon DO-160, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-883 and MIL-STD-38510 ## Education ### Dipl-Ing in EE Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hans-w-92b2422 --- Source: https://flows.cv/hansw JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/hansw/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13