Sr Hardware Engineer Lead

Description Position SummaryThe Sr. Hardware Engineer Lead provides hands-on technical leadership in the design, development, and support of embedded electronic products throughout the product lifecycle. This role leads hardware development and product improvements while partnering cross-functionally to ensure products are reliable, manufacturable, compliant, and successfully supported from development through production.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Lead the design and development of embedded electronic products from concept through production, including circuit design, component selection, prototyping, design reviews, documentation, EVT/DVT/PVT, and product release.
• Lead and perform analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, sensor, wireless, and microcontroller-based hardware design, including schematic development and PCB layout reviews to ensure performance, manufacturability, and design quality.
• Lead prototype bring-up, functional verification, environmental and reliability testing, EMC pre-compliance testing, hardware debugging, root cause analysis, and design validation.
• Provide hands-on technical support for production and existing products, including manufacturing issues, pilot builds, engineering changes, yield improvement, product enhancements, defect reduction, and complex troubleshooting.
• Partner with Procurement and Supply Chain on component availability, alternate component qualification, obsolescence, supplier technical issues, second sourcing, and cost reduction initiatives.
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex product and customer issues, including field failures, returned products, hardware/firmware troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Partner with Quality to support engineering documentation, design controls, CAPA investigations, configuration management, ISO 9001 requirements, and product certifications including EMC/EMI, FCC, CE, UL, Haz Loc, environmental, and reliability testing.
• Provide team, technical, and organizational guidance to engineering team members, including technical direction, mentoring, prioritization, design reviews, engineering best practices, cross-training, and knowledge sharing to support effective execution and accountability across the team.
• Work closely with Firmware, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Technical Support, and Operations to prioritize technical issues and ensure successful product development and ongoing product support.

Additional

Skills & Qualifications Qualifications The  requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the job well:
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (required).
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field (preferred).
• 3–7 years of experience in hardware design and development of embedded electronic products.
• Proven experience taking products from concept through production and sustaining engineering.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, production, supply chain, and field technical support.
• Experience working in cross-functional product development teams.

Technical Skills
• Strong knowledge of analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuit design.
• Experience with microcontroller-based embedded systems and common communication interfaces (SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, USB, Ethernet).
• Experience designing power supplies, sensor interfaces, and battery-powered products.
• Proficiency with schematic capture, PCB design, and PCB layout review using tools such as PADS, Altium Designer, or OrCAD.
• Familiarity with signal integrity, EMC/EMI mitigation, Design for Manufacturability (DFM), and Design for Testability (DFT).
• Experience…