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Job Summary
The
Hardware Design Engineer
will be based out of our Farmington Hills, MI Design Center.
This role is responsible for supporting Flexs development of active automotive programs. You will interface with multiple internal and external customers while driving requirements and owning the design and development for automotive products.
For design activities, the Hardware EE must be capable of creating the schematic design, guiding the board layout, and doing bring up and debug for the resulting hardware.
This position requires an experienced professional with a background in automotive electronics design from OEMs or Tier 1 and have a track record of successfully launching new automotive systems into production.
What a typical day looks like:
Provide technical leadership and design expertise to lead electrical design in automotive electronic modules including power supplies, constant current, analog and digital controllers
Create PCB floor plan, functional specifications and other documentation to support hardware design and implementation.
Collaborate with system, mechanical, thermal, software, manufacturing, requirements, quality, and functional safety engineering teams to complete implementation of the HW design.
Enter schematics, create PCB stack-up, guide layout and work with electro-mechanical designers and verification test engineers.
Provide reports to the system lead, project management, engineering leadership and customer teams of development status and risks.
Perform failure analysis and design corrections for EMI/EMC related issues
The experience we're looking to add to our team:
A minimum bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering
Minimum of 6 years of design engineering experience, preferably in the automotive industry
Extensive experience in the design of analog, digital and power supply designs for automotive environment
Familiar with automotive reliability requirements, and component selection for automotive electronics
Understanding of EMI/EMC principles and familiar with automotive EMC requirements and good design practices
Experience with worse case circuit analysis (extreme value analysis), DFMEA, DFM, etc.
Proficient in the use of electrical design software from Cadence (HDL, CIS, System Capture)
Proficient in the use of circuit simulation software such as PSpice, LT-spice
Strong verbal and technical writing skills
Strong analytical thinking skill
Here are a few of our preferred experiences:
Experience in Automotive Electronic controller development (involving Analog , Digital and Power electronics
Knowledge on CAN,LIN, SPI , I2C and I/O management in automotive environment
Design knowledge on Linear , switch mode power supplies, ADC , DAC , constant current drive circuits etc.
Experience with 16 & 32 Bit microcontroller designs
Knowledge on power moding strategy
Experience with BOM variant management
WHAT YOULL RECEIVE FOR THE GREAT WORK YOU PROVIDE:
Medical, dental and vision benefits; option of basic or enhanced plan
Life Insurance
Matching 401K
PTO paid time off
Tuition Reimbursement
Employee discounts at local retailers
PF79
Job Category
Design, Process & Technology Engineering
Is Sponsorship Available?
Yes
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Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
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