Contract Senior Hardware Engineer

We have a 6 month+ long consulting position in our Pittsburgh, PA office for a Senior Hardware Engineer (this will be a hybrid role).

The job description is below, but basically we need a Senior Electrical Engineer with 10 years of experience who can troubleshoot PCBs, help us in the field with EMI troubleshooting and help us with new product design.

Senior Hardware Engineer

The Senior Hardware Engineer will be required to perform the following duties:

(1) Develop cost effective and innovative products and platforms with longevity, versatility, and inter-operability through the use of railroad specific industry standards;

(2) Guarantee the design and the implementation of a complete HW solution (components, documentation and tools), including design against obsolescence, and Product Production Issues;

(3) Troubleshoot systems in field using tools for issues with noise frequency/EMI;

(4) Contribute on the definition and ensure the application of common methodologies, technical solutions and best practices in coherence with the Development function;

(5) Troubleshoot product applications (PCB boards) in all the product life-cycle phases;

(6)Guide junior hardware engineers with their tasks and design. Help troubleshoot field issues.

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering as well as 10 years of experience in a hardware engineering position.

Experience is required with the following:

• experience with hardware design using microprocessors, microcontrollers, Altera and Xilinx FPGAs, and FPGA Design tools;
• experience with all phases of hardware design process from product conceptualization, product design, Integration, Testing, Verification and Validation, and manufacturing support;
• experience with designing products capable of passing EMI/EMC standards;
• experience with product design according to common industry or government standards;
• experience in operating with cross functional engineering teams (including electrical and mechanical, systems);
• experience working with lab test equipment (including Oscilloscope, data acquisition systems, climatic chambers) for test and verification;
• experience with performing and documenting design and test activities in accordance with CENELEC Standards;
• experience with technical troubleshooting and debugging;
• experience with engineering lifecycles, delivery, and HW/SW integration lifecycle;
• experience with designing/simulation using Altium, PCAD, and LTSpice