Hardware Engineer

Location:

San Francisco — Alabama St.

Experience:

Minimum 10+ years hands-on
Work Mode: 4 Days Onsite in Office (minimum)

Responsibilities

• Work cross functionally with business and product teams, while designing the electronic systems in Gradient’s product roadmap.

• Lead product system requirement generation, architectural design, detailed design, layout, testing, and evaluation of mechanical and electro-mechanical devices, and controls to meet regulatory, safety, quality standards.

• Building on existing schematics, part lists, and engineering requirements.

• Defining function, configuration, and arrangement for circuit boards and system wiring and driving component selection to meet BOM cost targets.

• Prototyping and testing electronic designs.

• Performing schematic capture and PCB layout for analog and digital, and power circuit boards through fabrication and assembly drawings generation.

• Run cross functional design reviews to evaluate electronics including circuit boards within Gradient’s products.

• Establish and implement best practices around circuit design, board layouts, hardware verification, and electronics design controls.

• Interface with and support electronics consultants to meet company objectives.

• Evaluate, diagnose, and optimize performance of new electrical designs.

• Build electronics supply chain relationships and manage vendors for prototype builds, and interface with the operations team heading into production.

• Work with contract manufacturers to design functional circuit test (FCT) and In-Circuit Test (ICT) fixtures.

• Mentor and coach early career engineers to expand their technical expertise.

Desired Qualification

• Track record of shipping new consumer or industrial electronics products on a tight schedule.

• Experience with motor-control systems development.

• Experience designing split analog/digital/power electronics.

• 15+ years developing custom mixed signal electronic systems.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.

• Experience with Design for Manufacturability, Design for Assembly, and Design for Testability.

• Experience with ECAD libraries and library configuration management.

• Experience managing others, either internal teams or consultants.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience designing systems that incorporate wireless communication SoCs, especially WiFi and BLE.

• Proficiency with Altium.

• Experience shipping 2 or more consumer products.

• Experience with field-oriented control of BLDC motors.

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.

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