Design Engineer

Position Overview

The Hardware Engineer is responsible for design, sustaining and issue resolution of electronics for watt hour Meters. This role will be focused on developing, industrializing and lifecycle supporting the next generation of smart meters for global market.  A variety of country and utility requirements will be encountered and a continual set of challenging engineering tasks will be encountered as these requirements are finalized and projects to serve these different markets are launched

Duties and Responsibilities

Performs architectural design for products, evaluates alternate solution for new product and clearly defines and guides team for technical clarity in the product development.

Perform design to cost analysis and tradeoffs.

Board-level RF/analog design, analysis, and test. Design RF and analog PWB/PCBs using Altium.

Perform circuit design for manufacturability, reliability and maintainability.

Perform Failure Mode Effect Analysis on components, designs and products.

Perform reliability analysis and ensure design meets reliability targets.

Create and review functional/performance/compliance test plans and procedures to ensure adherence to requirements.

Create manufacturing documentation such as BOMs, change orders, control records, and manufacturing test specifications.

Support the sourcing, manufacturing, and validation teams during prototype and validation activities

In collaboration with the Technical Leader, support the implementation of the manufacturing tests in the contract manufacturer.

During the Life Cycle of the designed product, perform Root Cause Analysis of non-conformances, then define, schedule and execute Corrective and Protective Actions.

Skills and Experience

Minimum of 5 years of experience in electronics design.

Communications hardware design experience.

Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Education