Senior Hardware Engineer

Quick Facts

• Supports or owns design of automotive computing hardware (infotainment, connectivity, ADAS, and cross-domain control units)
• Leads hardware through verification, validation, industrialization, and mass-production launch
• Works with automotive OEM customers and cross-functional global teams

Description

The Senior Hardware Engineer translates customer and market requirements into robust, cost-effective automotive hardware designs and guides them from architecture through verification and production release. The role defines hardware/system architectures, leads schematic and PCB-related design activities, performs design-assurance analyses, and manages verification/EMC validation plans with requirements traceability. It also includes troubleshooting through bench-level debugging and driving corrective actions to closure.

Responsibilities

• Work with automotive OEM customers to elicit, analyze, document, and manage functional, electrical, environmental, safety, and EMC requirements
• Define system and hardware architectures including switch-mode power supplies and power switches, LVDS, HDMI receivers, USB hubs, embedded microcontrollers, audio/video codecs, and wireless communications (Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth)
• Lead schematic design, component selection, design reviews, interface definition, and PCB layout guidance (signal-integrity, power-integrity, thermal, grounding, and DFM)
• Perform simulations and design-assurance activities such as worst-case circuit analysis, tolerance analysis, DFMEAs, and fault-tree analyses
• Develop and negotiate hardware verification and EMC validation plans and maintain requirements-to-test traceability
• Troubleshoot validation, manufacturing, and vehicle issues using bench debugging, testing, measurement, root-cause analysis, and prototyping; drive corrective actions to closure
• Manage hardware deliverables, technical risks, design documentation, change control, and release readiness across the product life cycle
• Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams, suppliers, manufacturing partners, and customers to meet quality, cost, timing, and performance targets
• Mentor less-experienced engineers and contribute to hardware design standards, reusable methods, and continuous improvement
• Travel as required, including occasional international travel

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, computer engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline
• 7+ years of experience designing and developing electronic hardware, including ownership through verification or production release
• Proficiency in schematic capture, circuit analysis, laboratory debugging, technical documentation, and design reviews
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and collaborate effectively across disciplines and organizations
• Ability to travel as required

Benefits

• Commitment to a diverse workforce (EOE/Protected Veteran/Disabled)
• STEM initiative support (e.g., FIRST Robotics, AWIM)
• Confidential handling of information under EEO guidelines