Senior Hardware Designer/Engineer

Senior Hardware Designer/Engineer
Novi, MI
Hire Type: fulltime

Salary Range$100,000-$130,000 a year

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
Strong experience in automotive or embedded electronic hardware design.
Proficiency in analog and digital circuit design.
Hands-on experience with microcontrollers, processors, memories, sensors, and peripheral interfaces.
Experience designing power-management circuits, including DC-DC converters, LDOs, protection circuits, and power sequencing.
Knowledge of automotive communication interfaces such as CAN, LIN, Ethernet, SPI, I C, UART, and related physical-layer circuits.
Experience with schematic-capture and PCB-design tools such as Altium Designer, Cadence OrCAD, Mentor Graphics, Zuken, or equivalent.
Experience with circuit simulation and analysis tools such as LTspice, PSpice, HyperLynx, or equivalent.
Good understanding of high-speed PCB design, controlled impedance, grounding, shielding, signal integrity, and power integrity.
Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and other laboratory equipment.
Knowledge of automotive EMC, ESD, transient protection, and environmental requirements.
Familiarity with automotive qualification standards such as AEC-Q100 and AEC-Q200.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Roles & Responsibilities
Lead automotive electronic hardware development from concept through production.
Translate customer and system requirements into hardware requirements, architecture, block diagrams, schematics, and detailed design documentation.
Design analog, digital, power-supply, communication, sensor-interface, and microcontroller-based circuits.
Perform component selection considering performance, automotive qualification, reliability, availability, lifecycle, and cost.
Review and guide PCB placement, routing, stack-up, grounding, shielding, thermal management, signal integrity, and power integrity.
Perform circuit simulations, worst-case analysis, tolerance analysis, derating analysis, power-budget analysis, and design calculations.
Conduct hardware design reviews and ensure timely closure of technical findings.
Develop and maintain the Bill of Materials and support component obsolescence management.
Support prototype development, board bring-up, integration, debugging, and functional testing.
Define hardware verification and validation plans, test specifications, acceptance criteria, and test reports.
Support EMC, ESD, electrical transient, environmental, vibration, thermal, and reliability testing.
Investigate design, manufacturing, validation, and field issues using structured root-cause analysis.
Coordinate with system, software, mechanical, optics, validation, manufacturing, supplier, and customer teams.
Support design-for-manufacturing, design-for-testability, design-for-reliability, and production-launch activities.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior hardware engineers and offshore teams.
Support technical discussions, estimates, planning, customer reviews, and delivery commitments.