Lead Hardware Engineer

Seeking a talented, self-motivated automotive electrical hardware engineer for the design engineering group focused on ADAS systems. Duties include supporting analog and digital circuit design through testing, analysis, and simulation. Day-to-day responsibilities include supporting design activities for automotive control systems during quotation, development and mass production. The candidate will need to understand and be able to communicate & explain technical concepts, testing methods and documentation procedures to lower-level engineers to increase their understanding & capability to perform these activities in support of engineering development.

This may take the form of preparing presentation material, completing documentation, and attending/leading meetings. The support of products already in production can include aiding/leading root cause analysis activities for part failures, outlining/determining testing pass/fail criteria. The support of products under development can include creation of test plans, analyzing product specifications, supporting the testing of prototypes, and creating test specifications.

• Analyze and comprehend customer requirements and customer needs.
• Modify existing designs or create entirely new HW designs to realize the customer’s desired operational and performance requirements.
• Use technical and engineering acumen to perform the necessary analysis, simulation and verification of analog and digital hardware and associated firmware.
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, customers and vendors to discuss existing and potential new projects.
• Prepare block diagrams, detailed circuit schematics and manage the PCB layout of hardware concepts and final designs.
• Prepare and maintain various engineering documents to support production of existing and new products:
  Parts Lists, BoMs, IMDS, Design Notifications, Change Notifications.
• Support prototype builds for new & existing products.
• Develop and manage test specifications and their execution.
• Design and coordinate the fabrication and configuration of test equipment for hardware testing
• Work with and support manufacturing teams to release hardware designs into production.
• Represent employer at customer meetings to explain or defend technical findings and technical recommendations.
• Assist root cause analysis and corrective action for components and products. Prepare and present final reports for failure analysis activities to appropriate technicians and engineering personnel.
• Attend training to learn new tools and methodologies and keep up to date on market and technical trends.
• Work with other Astemo engineers to ensure program goals are met, schedules are maintained, and problems encountered during the development process are satisfactorily resolved.

• Have embedded H/W design experience for automotive applications
• Understand analog and digital hardware systems as applied to automotive control systems.
• Understanding of EMC specifications and EMC mitigation techniques.
• Familiarity with EMC & Environmental automotive validation test flows.
• Understand analysis methods and interpreting the results to convey this information to others.
• Have experience creating worst case analysis. Previous use of MathCAD for WCAs is desired.
• Proficient in setting up and using laboratory test equipment such as multi-meters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzer, power analyzer, etc.
• Conduct investigative circuit analysis using device schematics of products and testing equipment.
• Familiarity with automotive SoCs is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with communication protocols: CAN, LIN, RS-232, USB, SENT,
  Ethernet, MII, SERDES, PCIe.
• Use of Intrepid / Vector CAN toolchain is highly desirable
• Ability to read and make electrical schematics and engineering drawings.
• Perform schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer or equivalent tool chain.
• Perform circuit analysis and simulation using SPICE based tools.
• Possess familiarity and understanding of programming in C or C++ to more effectively collaborate with SW team.
• Be able to coordinate program activities with team members at remote sites.
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