Principal Hardware Design Engineer

Principal Hardware Design Engineer

Location: New Brighton, MN

Schedule: Hybrid - 3 days in office + 2 days remote

Type : Full Time

Salary Range: $120,000-$150,000

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, Voluntary life Insurance, Employer paid basic life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and PTO.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Principal Hardware Design Engineer

Do you have a passion for modern electronics? Are you looking for a fulfilling position working with a top-notch engineering team designing the next generation products that will be used by our global customer base ranging from leading global automotive companies to specialty machine manufacturers to the powerhouses of material handling and logistics? Do you thrive on the challenges the fast paced world of automation offers every day? If this sounds like an opportunity you've been looking for, we have an opening for a Principal Hardware Design Engineer.


Our world class Hardware Engineering Team in New Brighton is at the forefront of Pepperl+Fuchs' Industrial Gateway Technologies (IGT) initiative. Our products drive enhancements in factory automation that were simply not possible a few short years ago and enable data communication solutions connecting the plant floor to the C-Suite. As the Principal Hardware Design Engineer you will be an integral member of a team of dedicated professionals that understand the latest innovations in modern electronics and constantly strive to improve our product offering. New ideas that increase performance, enhance functionality and optimize build costs are part of the team's DNA. If you seek to be both challenged and supported when coming up with the world class products we are known for, and if you expect professional development opportunities where your input is not just appreciated but expected, then Pepperl+Fuchs is the right place for you.

Your task will include:

• Be a key team member in specifying, designing and developing exciting electronic hardware systems that run embedded OS and applications for standard and industrial Ethernet to process and transfer factory automation I/O data.
• Circuit design
• Develop hardware that are robust and EMC sound.
• Schematic capture, constraints development and programming.

• PCB Layout design constraints, guidance and review.

• Lead debugging and testing of prototype boards.
• Analyze and resolve issues found in design verification test (DVT), EMC and environmental testing.
• Research and create innovative product HW architecture with performance microcontroller, memory, interface IC.
• Lead Product feasibility studies including PCB component area placement and circuit implementation and routing studies.
• Collaboration with software engineering and industrial / manufacturing engineering and product management to develop hardware solutions.
• Support circuit and product assembly technologies.
• Create HW/SW interface and specifications documents.

Required to Perform this Job:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 7 years of experience of embedded system design including circuit design and prototype bring-up and debugging.

• Experience with processor architecture, digital circuit design, and various communications protocols.
• Experience leading and driving design development from schematic capture, PCB layout through fabrication and assembly.
• Experience developing robust designs for EMC and industrial operating temperature range
• Experience in CAD design tools for schematic capture and constraints programming
• Good understanding of manufacturing process including DFM.

• Ability to manage a complex set of objectives and team goals in a fast-paced R&D environment.
• Proven experience in bringing up prototype board and debug/troubleshoot circuits and designs.

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