Lead Hardware Engineer

Job description

• Preparation, review and release of all product documentation, including specifications, design files, and user manuals.
• Develop and implement testing methodology to ensure product reliability and compliance with safety and regulatory standards.
• Ability to work in a team, ability to communicate, stress resistance, strong commitment to reach the organizational goals.
• Maintain effective communications- both verbal & written with customers, team members and cross functional team members. Provide regular update to leadership team on technical status and project risks.
• Should be passionate and willing to mentor people and provide technical guidelines to engineering teams, ensuring adherence to industry standards and best practices.
• Strong understanding of EMI/EMC standards and testing methods. Conduct EMI/EMC testing on prototypes and production products to ensure compliance with relevant standards (e.g., FCC, CISPR, IEC).
• Collaborate with design teams to implement best practices in EMI/EMC design, including circuit layout, shielding, and grounding techniques.
• Troubleshoot and resolve EMI/EMC issues identified during testing or reported by customers, providing effective solutions to enhance product performance.
• Proficiency with test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, and EMI/EMC chambers.
• Candidate must be willing to travel if required.

You d describe yourself as:

• Graduate - Bachelors / Master s degree in Electronics / Electrical Engineering with 10-13 years of experience in Hardware Design
• Experience in system design, electronics design, architecture, and validation
• Experience developing complex measurement systems involving sensing, electronics, and signal conditioning.
• Collaborate with mechanical, layout, and firmware engineers to successfully develop and validate the designs.
• Should possess strong board (HW/SW/FW) debug knowledge.
• Be passionate about engineering and have a strong proactive drive to provide solutions
• Ability to understand stated requirements and hardware architectures
• Strong knowledge of hardware design flow (Circuit simulation, Schematic capture, Layout) & experience in any commercial enterprise grade schematic capture tool (Altium preferred)
• Working knowledge of microcontroller architectures (any one of ARM, AVR, MSP430, 8051 and its variants)
• Good knowledge of electronic circuit design using signal chain building blocks like Op-Amps, ADCs & DACs.
• Good knowledge of electronic circuit design using discrete semiconductors (BJT, MOSFET, Diodes)
• Strong understanding of power electronics principles, including control strategies and component selection for DC-DC converters (Buck/Boost/Flyback/LDO).
• Ability to analyze analog & mixed signal electronic circuits using error budgets, Performance analysis, Sensitivity analysis etc.
• Strong analog circuit simulation skills using SPICE (any variant, LTSPICE preferred)
• Prototyping, validation and troubleshooting of electronic circuits
• Failure analysis and corrective actions for the hardware/component level issues
• Should be able to read and understand schematics