About The Job
The Company has an exciting opportunity for an Electronics Design Engineer. In this position you will work with a cross-functional research & development team and design Analog, Digital and Mixed Signal electronics for the control, sensing, monitoring, and connectivity of state-of-the-art power converters and power systems. You will take your original design ideas and architecture from prototyping to mass production to create best-in-class hardware solutions that power Company's energy routing technologies.
The Electronics Design Engineer needs to be agile, professional, and comfortable in a rapidly changing environment. The right person is trustworthy with confidential information, highly organized, self-motivated, has excellent communication skills, can think strategically, and works equally as well independently as with a team. The company values efficiency and strives to maintain smooth operations.
Key Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To
- Specification, design, schematic capture, layout and routing, prototyping, and debugging of complex circuits, PCBs, and electrical assemblies including high-speed digital processing and communications, sensors, relays, power conditioning subsystems, used in power converters, and power systems
- Modeling, simulation, and analysis of complex electronic circuits
- Optimize product solutions with firmware/hardware control co-design
- Hands-on bring-up of prototype boards
- Detailed and functional measurements and design verification
- Perform root-cause failure analysis, FMEA, and related hazard analysis
- Electronics unit circuit design, development, test, and integration
- Work with project management to generate and update product design and development schedules
Skills Requirements: Comes from proven electronics design background, 5+ years experience, experience at one of the leading automotive companies or energy companies
Education / Experience
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent (required)
- MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent (preferred)
- 5+ years of relevant experience in hardware design
- Strong understanding of analog and digital circuit design
- Knowledge of system grounding/shielding and EMI mitigation techniques
- Strong hands-on testing and troubleshooting experience
- Experience with common electrical interfaces: PCIe, USB, MMC, EMIF, MIPI, and I2C/SPI/UART/CAN buses
- Experience with SoC and FPGA systems
- Proficiency with devices, interfaces, and protocols for industrial communications such as TCP/IP, RS-485, etc.
Specific Skills / Abilities
- Think with first principles and excellent electronics fundamentals
- Determined to continually improve designs and seek new ways to solve problems
- Experience using OrCad for schematic capture and Cadence Allegro for PCB layout
- Proficient in the use of circuit simulation tools (PLECS, PSPICE, etc)
- Strong understanding of signal integrity, noise issues, and signal processing in power electronics environments
- Proficient in script programming (Python, Pytest) for test automation
- The ability to work with HIL platforms and experience with the OPAL-RT system is a plus
- Excellent technical communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic, diverse, multicultural, and cross-functional team
- Comfortable working in a start-up environment and ability to solve complex problems and provide solutions for short and long term