Hardware Engineer

General Description

The Hardware Engineer (Mid Level) is responsible for supporting the design, development, testing, and validation of automotive electrical and electronic hardware products. This position performs hardware engineering activities for assigned programs, including requirement analysis, circuit design, schematic and PCB review, simulation, verification testing, troubleshooting, and engineering documentation.

This role requires independent work, sound technical judgment, and cross-functional collaboration to resolve design, validation, manufacturing, and production issues. The engineer supports automotive electronic products such as e-shifter systems, SBW systems, actuator control systems, and related embedded hardware products in accordance with customer requirements, internal standards, project timing, quality expectations, and business needs.

Responsibilities

Primary Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and develop automotive electrical hardware circuits, including analog circuits, actuator control systems, e-shifter systems, SBW systems, and related embedded hardware components.

• Analyze customer requirements, subsystem technical specifications, component technical specifications, and functional specifications to define hardware design requirements.

• Develop and maintain hardware design specifications, hardware requirement specifications, hardware test specifications, and related engineering documentation.

• Perform schematic design, circuit analysis, component selection, PCB artwork review, and hardware simulation using tools such as Cadence, Allegro, P-SPICE, or equivalent tools.

• Conduct technical design reviews for schematics, PCB layout, simulation results, WCCA, design verification, and hardware risk analysis.

• Create and execute hardware test plans, test cases, and test scenarios, and evaluate test results to verify design performance and compliance.

• Support DV/PV testing activities, including test setup, test monitoring, issue analysis, corrective action, and validation result review.

• Troubleshoot hardware design, validation, manufacturing, field, and production issues by performing root cause analysis and implementing design improvements or engineering changes.

• Coordinate with customers, suppliers, manufacturing, quality, validation, program management, and internal engineering teams to resolve technical issues and support project milestones.

• Support cost estimation, sourcing activities, DFMEA, lessons learned implementation, design reuse, and product launch readiness to improve development efficiency, quality, and cost competitiveness.

• Other tasks and projects as assigned

Job Requirements

Work Experience & Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

• 4–8 years of experience in hardware design, electrical circuit development, or integrated system development for automotive electronic products.

• Minimum 2 years of experience delivering automotive electrical/electronic products from development through validation and production launch.

• Experience with automotive electronic components or systems such as e-shifter systems, SBW systems, actuator control systems, body control systems, or similar embedded hardware products.

• Experience analyzing customer requirements, developing hardware specifications, supporting design reviews, and resolving technical issues during development and mass production stages.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong knowledge of analog and digital circuit design, component selection, PCB artwork review, circuit analysis, and hardware validation.

• Experience with schematic capture, circuit simulation, PCB review, and engineering tools such as Cadence, Allegro, P-SPICE, or equivalent tools.

• Knowledge of embedded hardware systems, automotive electronic components, sensor interface circuits, actuator control circuits, power circuits, and hardware/software interface design.

• Experience supporting automotive development processes and engineering activities such as ISO 26262, DFMEA, WCCA, DV/PV testing, failure analysis, troubleshooting, engineering change management, and product launch support.

• Strong ability to analyze customer requirements, develop engineering documentation, communicate with cross-functional teams, and resolve technical issues with ownership and sound judgment.

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