Job Summary
Client is looking for Mid level HW Electrical Engineer at their Cupertino Lab in California, CA, USA.
Key Responsibilities
• Gather test and measurement needs from lab stakeholders.
• Brainstorm, architect and develop electrical design concepts.
• Utilize creative side in developing electronics solutions while applying engineering principles of analog, digital, power and microelectronic circuits.
• Write functional requirements, equipment specifications, and qualification tests.
• Generate innovative designs, while taking into consideration system specification, signal noise and error budgets, circuit bandwidth and stability, component tolerances, heat dissipation, reliability, manufacturability, etc.
• Craft electrical hardware solutions to automate, control and improve leading-edge electrical instrumentation to acquire high precision test data.
• Architect and develop complex test setups and high accuracy and stability and low noise electrical apparatus.
• Validate the designs and verify they meet expected performance and stability.
• Conduct technical design reviews with peers and stakeholders, to ensure system functionality, usability, traceability and maintainability.
Skill Requirements
• In-depth experience in all aspects of electronics design including creating requirements, product development, component selection, design reviews, validation and design verification, deployment and maintenance.
• Experience with design tools for electronics circuit design including schematic capture, circuit analysis and simulation and multi-layer PCB design and layout.
• Solid understanding of analog circuit design and layout methods, component tolerances and error budgets, error analysis methods, low noise analog signal processing, low noise grounding techniques, noise coupling, electrical interferences, ADCs and DACs and power circuits.
• Proficiency with engineering test instruments like DVMs, power supplies, electronic loads, oscilloscopes, function generators, logic and spectral analyzers and data acquisition systems.
• Experience with FMEA and FTA analysis, six sigma design practices and statistical techniques.
Other Requirements
• Typically requires at least 8+ years of hands-on electrical design engineering experience. Individuals with more experience may assume additional responsibilities.
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
• Impeccable organization and documentation skills.
• Competent in using productivity tools like Pages, Numbers, Keynote, MS Excel, Word and Project.
• Basic coding experience preferably Python.