Hardware Engineer

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About the role

We are the hardware engineering group that designs and implements embedded systems (meters) for collecting TV tuning and TV viewing data. Our team’s responsibilities include electrical schematic design, circuit board layout, and enclosure mechanical design. We use contract manufacturers to build prototypes and production meters. Typical meter designs consist of a single main board with a dozen or more integrated circuits (BGA, QFP, TDFN, SOT, etc) and related passive components. Our designs range in size from rack mount equipment to devices as small as a wrist watch. We design and create automated manufacturing test systems that incorporate various instruments such as optical detectors, power supplies, DVMs, RF generators, and frequency converters. These test systems are used to validate newly manufactured equipment.

Key Responsibilities

You will be directly responsible for supporting product innovation and contributing to recommendations to employ leading-edge technology to design solutions. You will be expected to guide engineering technology, make appropriate technology tradeoff decisions, and arbitrate opposing ideas. Explore and provide alternative solutions to problems. Key responsibilities include analysis, design, implementation, validation, troubleshooting and support for electronic systems including:

Role Requirements

• Provide project estimates in terms of cost and duration
• Identify risks and provide mitigation plans for the project
• Tracking and reporting project status to management.
• Component selection, BOM creation (ensuring multiple sourced components), and cost estimation
• Electrical/Schematic design of embedded systems(you will work with a dedicated PCB layout engineer)
• Initiation of ECOs / DOs documenting the design in our PLM system
• Preparing for and conduction design reviews
• Creating test requirements and supporting a test engineer for your designs
• Ensuring products meet US, CA and EU government regulations
• Contribute to the innovation and intellectual properly creation within Engineering
• Recommend alterations and enhancements to improve quality of products and / or procedures
• Validation of concepts and their correct implementation

Key Skills

• Altium Designer for schematic capture
• Arena PLM
•  Ability to handle multiple priorities and simultaneous work projects
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Must be able to juggle multiple priorities and handle work requests with a sense of urgency

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering discipline or related degree, or equivalent work experience.
• 8-10 years’ of progressively more complex experience in Engineering

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