Director Of Embedded And Electrical Engineering

Job Title:

Director of Embedded & Electrical Engineering (FPGA)

Job Description:

+ The Director of Electrical & Embedded Engineering (FPGA) leads a multidisciplinary team of electrical and embedded design engineers in the development of advanced ProAV and embedded systems used in Medical, Defense, and Enterprise markets. This challenging, hands-on leadership role requires quick thinking, intelligence, and blends technical excellence, project execution, and people development aspects, ensuring that our next generation of high-performance products meet design, quality, and schedule objectives.

The successful candidate will be equally comfortable guiding architecture and design decisions as well as mentoring engineers and driving results.

+ This critical, hands-on role in Product Development and Engineering is based in Torrance, CA. We offer a fast-paced, high impact and stimulating work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development within. Veterans welcome!

Job Responsibilities:

Electrical Design & Development

+ Leads the development of Embedded HW architectures to meet performance and simultaneously production cost targets by performing trade studies and developing requirements for the selected architectures.

+ Lead schematic capture, PCB layout review, and ensure best practices for signal integrity, EMI/EMC mitigation, and thermal management.

+ Integrate microcontrollers, FPGAs, and SoCs with communication interfaces such as I²C, SPI, USB, Ethernet, CAN, RS-232/422/485, and PCIe.

+ Support firmware and HDL (Verilog/VHDL) development for embedded control, communication, and real-time video transport.

+ Oversee and contribute to the design of analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits for video, control, and power systems.

+ Define and execute design verification and validation testing, including board bring-up, stress testing, and environmental qualification.

+ Drive continuous improvement in design methodology, simulation, and documentation standards.

Technical Excellence & Collaboration

+ Conduct and participate in peer reviews of design, circuit and code.

+ Troubleshoot complex design and integration challenges across analog, digital, and high-speed domains with a focus on root cause analysis.

+ Develop and maintain all processes for HW engineering with the goal of reducing errors and improving design cycle time.

+ Maintain proper engineering documentation, version control, and technical archives for all projects.

+ Interface with internal teams, customers, and vendors to define requirements and ensure satisfaction with delivered solutions.

Leadership & Project Management

+ Lead, mentor, and manage a team of electrical & embedded engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

+ Exercise independent judgment and discretion in project management, including scheduling, resource planning, and milestone tracking.

+ Oversee all stages of electrical design projects - from concept through production - ensuring high technical standards and timely delivery.

+ Provide weekly status updates and technical guidance to the Sr. Director of Engineering.

+ Lead formal design and progress reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) and ensure compliance with applicable standards (IEC 60601, ISO 13485, MIL-STD).

+ Collaborate closely with mechanical, firmware, software, production, and QA teams to achieve integrated product success.

+ Champion our culture of creativity, teamwork, tenacity, empathy, and critical thinking.

MUST HAVE

Skills:

+ Management or team leadership experience.

+ Must be hand on in last 1-2 roles. Hands on role.

+ Extensive electrical experience - ability to review and edit schematic board layouts, ability to troubleshoot complex designs

+ Experience seeing products through full lifecycle - will oversee all stages of design

+ Experience leading cost model analysis

+ Proficiency in FPGA development.

Additional Desired Skills &

Qualifications:

+ Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.

+ Experience leading root cause analysis and writing 8D failure reports for customer issues with hardware.

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