Power Electronics Hardware Engineer
$80 - $120 per hourTechnical Talent Group
Job Description
Job Description
Role: Power Electronics Hardware Engineer
Project Type: Safety Adjacent industrial/mobile controller
Location: East Bay, CA| Engagement: Contract
Seniority: Senior (hands-on design owner)
Pay Range $80-120 / hour
MissionOwn the design and delivery of a ruggedized control module that:
- Powers and controls actuators, fans, and sensors
- Powers and communicates with downstream electronics
- Provides a safety compliant comms pathway between a quad skid and pack system
- Integrates 1G Single Pair Ethernet (1000BASE T1) , CAN FD , and MCU/MPU compute
Embedded power/hardware ownership
- Designed end to end power trees: 48V input 24V & 5V bucks3V3/1V8/1V1 LDOs
- Load control using motor drivers and high side drivers (HSDs) with diagnostics
Industrial/automotive networking
- CAN FD bring-up, bus diagnostics, and fault handling (bit rate setup, termination, CRC/fault confinement basics)
- 1000BASET1 (Single Pair Ethernet) with PHY selection, magnetics/CM choke usage, and layout for controlled impedance
- Experience integrating an Ethernet switch (BGA ~196 pin, 0.8 mm pitch) in a multiport design
Compute & SoC integration
- MCU (LQFP) for real-time control and safety supervision
- MPU SOM (SMARC carrier) integration (power sequencing, boot, peripherals, Linux/RTOS bring-up coordination)
- MCU?MPU comms via SPI/UART/CAN?FD (bonus: iso SPI , I²C, JTAG bring-up)
Schematic/PCB & layout for EMC
- 4–8 layer boards with high current paths, star grounds, split analog/digital, impedance controlled routing for GbE T1 & high speed SPI
- DFM with BGA fan out, power/thermal design, and test point strategy
Safety & reliability mindset
- Hardware watchdogs, brownout/UVLO/OVP, reverse polarity, surge/transient protection
- Graceful degradation: MCU retains control if MPU/Ethernet fails
- Automotive/industrial standards exposure (ISO13485/14971/26262, IEC61508, CISPR/EMC pre comp)
- Experience with galvanic isolation for CAN/ISOSPI
- Thermal analysis and enclosure level EMI design for motor loads
- Linux driver bring up on SOMs, or boot sequencing with PMICs
- Production test fixture design (JTAG/SWD, boundary scan, automated functional test)
- Architect and document the hardware system (power, compute, comms, IO)
- Select major components: MCU , MPU SOM , Ethernet switch & PHYs , buck/LDO , HSDs , motor drivers , ADCs/DACs , IO expanders
- Own schematics, layout guidance, and design reviews; coordinate with PCB layout
- Bring up and validate: power sequencing, comms buses ( CAN FD , 1000BASE T1), motor/fan control, sensor IO
- Implement safety critical behaviors under MCU control; design for graceful degradation
- Create production ready documentation: BOM, test plans, power budgets, interface control docs
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