Manufacturing Engineering Electrical/Electronic

Connection Systems business unit.

The Aptiv Connection Systems Team is looking for an Electrical Engineer to join the North America Product Engineering Team in our Troy Technical Center in Troy, MI or Champion Technical Center in Champion, OH. The Electrical Engineer will design, develop and validate electronic products aligned with business product portfolios to OEM requirements. The successful candidate will work with products requiring circuits such as switch mode power supplies, inverters, power switches, LVDS transceivers, HDMI receivers, USB hubs, embedded MCU, audio/video codecs and wireless communications links based on RF standards (e.g. 802.11n, Bluetooth, Qi, NFC, GSM).

Work directly with automotive OEMs and other Tier 1 suppliers to design products that meet customer functional, EMC and electrical requirements

Develop product schematics using schematic capture software and oversee and/or create PCB layouts

Complete peer reviews and create change documentation for engineering changes

Develop new circuit building blocks and evaluate new components

Work with supply chain management to provide cost analysis of Bill of Material (BoM) and component cost tradeoffs

Negotiate design validation plan with the customer and manage its execution at test labs

Conduct detailed benchmarking, competitive and cost-tradeoff analysis for area of responsibility

Perform simulations, worst case circuit analysis, FMEAs, and similar systematic design analysis to verify robust performance

Perform bench level debugging, testing and prototyping

Provide risk assessment and perform root cause analysis of product performance deviations using standard practices (fault tree analysis, fishbone diagrams, 5-why, etc)

Work with validation team to assist in developing proper equipment and processes for Design Validation (DV) and Product Validation (PV) of product

Mentor other department Electrical Engineers in proper practices, industry standards and best practices

Ensure compliance with customer specific requirements

Support the cross-functional team including software engineering, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, ECAD, MCAD, manufacturing, quality and SCM

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

• 1 - 4 years relevant electronics design experience and can demonstrate abilities
• 1 - 4 years' experience with analog/digital design and simulation experience; including, but not limited to: power supplies, filters, op-amps, vehicle communications (CAN & LIN), microprocessors, memory interfaces, high speed communications (I2C, SPI, UART, etc.)
• Demonstrated knowledge of proper design methods to optimize for RFI, EMI and ESD to be compliant with automotive specifications
• Experience with design validation and test planning
• Previous experience using bench equipment including oscilloscopes, power supplies, DMMs, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, etc.
• Demonstrated proficiency using Microsoft Office (i.e. Word, Project, Excel, Outlook, Teams, Visio, etc.).
• Ability and willingness to travel as required
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Previous experience with Cadence Allegro, Mentor Graphics or Altium Designer PCB editing software

Previous experience with typical industry practices and automotive OEM customer requirements for design of electrical products and EMC/EMI Protection circuitry

Previous experience with application of thermodynamics principles to electronic product design to optimize for thermal functional requirements and cost

Previous experience with programming (e.g., C, Python, Matlab, LabView)

Previous experience decomposing customer requirements for electronics products into requirements specific to hardware or software product development engineering

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Private health care effective day 1 of employment

Life and accident insurance

Paid Time Off (Holidays, Vacation, Designated time off, Parental leave)

Relocation assistance may be available

Opportunities to give back to the community

Tuition Reimbursement

Candidates for positions with Aptiv must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.