Hardware Project Engineer

Job Title: Hardware Project Engineer

Location: Gilbert, AZ

Employment: Contract (5 months)

Industry: Aerospace and Defense

Compensation: $ 90.00-$120.00/hour

Schedule: 40hours /week

About the Opportunity:

• Support lead responsible engineer in development, and production of custom space electronics.
• May support senior lead engineer on complex projects.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability 
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries 
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work 
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates 

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

• This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally. 

About Acara Solutions

• Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit?

TODAY

What You'll Do:

• Manage and review product requirements from internal and external customer stakeholders through product development evolution including deriving design and test requirements necessary to ensure product performance, functionality, reliability and manufacturability.
• Collaborate with designers to validate conceptual solutions through the performance of trade studies and analyses.
• Allocate product requirements to functional disciplines and coordinate the verification activities across the project team to ensure all product requirements are verified and documented.
• Author and review engineering analyses and reports.
• Ensure project data deliverables meet customer specifications and are delivered on time.
• Author test procedures.
• Assist in design verification testing and production hardware testing.
• Read and understand printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) schematics.
• Use laboratory measurement equipment to diagnose and troubleshoot electronic failures down to the discrete component / integrated circuit level.
• Resolve non-conformance issue encountered during manufacturing and testing activities including leading Failure Review Board (FRB) meetings and championing Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) efforts.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in electronic systems with at least one of the following PCBA design, Embedded processors software design, requirements management.
• 3+ years of experience in authoring, managing, deriving, and verifying requirements for complex electronics systems
• 3+ years of experience in requirement management database such as IBM Rational DOORS, JAMA Connect, Siemens Polarion.

What Sets You Apart:

• A high degree of proficiency with Microsoft Tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).
• Self-starting instincts and a strong sense of project ownership.ability to work independently with a strong technical foundation while proactively identifying and resolving technical challenges.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture and digital interface technologies.
• Experience designing or specifying space-based, radiation-hardened electronic components is highly desired.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check

• Ability to work onsite and be the primary POC during 24/7 product testing campaigns.

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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.

Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.