Staff Electrical Hardware Engineer

Palo Alto, California, United States. Posted 2 months ago

The role

This person will architect, implement, and design boards for an upcoming product platform, including on-vehicle and off-vehicle components. The work focuses on product-differentiating, customer-facing designs and circuits for new product features and development.

What you will do

Schematic and layout of key electrical boards and providing guidance to JDM/OEMs on executing designs.
Bring up designs done in-house and at JDM/OEM.
Test designs for reliability and validity.
Implement changes to address issues found.
Create quick, simple designs to execute design vision of the studio team using off the shelf parts.
Understand tradeoffs being made for velocity and mitigate risks that impact team progress.
Work with other engineering teams to integrate electrical designs into vehicles.
Help define electrical architecture and execution.

Required qualifications

Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering
10+ years of experience with board design, specifically within the automotive industry
Experience working with Altium eCAD tools
Experience working with contract manufacturers and OEMs
Knowledge of DC/DC converters, transmission lines, common Data buses, analog circuits, board design and layout best practices
Experience in technical leadership

Nice to have

10+ years of experience with Systems/HW architectures experience
Python scripting experience
C/C++ coding experience
Design experience using microprocessors and digital logic
Knowledge in display, audio and camera technologies
Experience in motors and encoders
Experience using SI tools such as hyperlink
Experience in ethernet networking
Experience in automotive design (AECxxx, CAN, LIN, T1S)
Experience with validation testing and production design processes

Benefits

mentorship
career growth opportunities
comprehensive benefits

Before you apply

All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.

About the company

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life. It is part of the global ALTEN Group with 57,000+ engineers in 30 countries.