Sr. Hardware Engineer - Solon, OH

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Position Overview

Responsible for the design, development, and manufacturing support of electronic hardware components of high volume electronic and supporting products associated with Smart Infrastructure Solutions including areas such as AMI and Utility/Distribution Automation.

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Develop electrical hardware incorporating all aspects of hardware design from concept to production launch including circuit design, schematic design, PCB design, testing and documentation.
• Ensure hardware captures and maintains system-level behavior that meets stated requirements.
• Develop strategy to validate resulting design against requirements including the development of design verification test procedures.
• Responsible for the overall quality of the hardware incorporated in the system, communicating progress and challenges during development with functional and project management and completing development on the agreed-to schedule.
• Ensure designs are compliant with requirements of governing agencies (FCC, IC, UL) and capable of achieving relevant agency listings.
• Interact in a team environment and works with others to achieve the best possible end- product from all functional viewpoints in a cost-effective manner.
• Familiar with DFMEA principles and root cause analysis as related to both electronic and mechanical fabrication and assembly processes.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Serve as lead developer, when necessary.
• Other duties as assigned by Manager.

Skills and Experience

Required:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent engineering degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with electrical hardware design and development activities associated with high volume, cost-sensitive commercial or industrial electronic products.
• 5 years of experience designing microprocessor-based devices incorporating wireless and wired communication as well as precision analog circuitry.
• Working understanding of Design Verification Testing at the circuit level.
• Experience working in an environment where design staff and operations interact daily to manage component and product delivery issues.
• Experience with board bring-up and solid trouble shooting methodology using common tools such as spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes and various types of handheld meters.

Preferred:

• Experience mitigating immunity and emissions issues in analog/RF designs.
• Experience with simulation tools such as Spice and proprietary vendor tools to simulate analog circuit performance.
• Motivated self-starter and independent decision making based on data-driven judgment.
• Creative approach to problem solving.
• Demonstrated ability to work with sub-contractors and vendors
• Demonstrated ability to provide direction to less experienced Engineers
• Experience in a technical leadership role interacting with firmware, software, hardware and system contributors both onsite and remote.
• Advanced engineering degree.
• Experience in the utility industry

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