Hardware Design - Lead Engineer

Lekha Wireless Solutions; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Lekha Wireless Solutions in Bengaluru, Karnataka seeks a hardware engineer to lead design, development, and testing of embedded boards based on microcontrollers, DSPs, and FPGA technologies.

The role covers schematic capture, PCB layout coordination, and board bring-up with manufacturing and SW teams. Candidates should have electronics background and hands-on experience with hardware test equipment and standard interfaces like USB, I2C, SPI, and memory interfaces.

Qualifications

• Graduate in Electronics or Electrical with related digital/mixed-signal design experience.
• Experience in schematic capture and PCB layout tools.
• Experience with USB, I2C, SPI interfaces and memory interfaces.
• Knowledge of power supplies and testing equipment.

Responsibilities

• Design circuits and schematics; coordinate with PCB layout and HW lead.
• Coordinate with Manufacturing for board bring-up and testing.
• Deliver hardware modules per project plan and schedule.

Skills

Embedded hardware design

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Power electronics

DSP/FPGA experience

Test equipment

Compliance testing

Team player

Cadence Allegro

Education

B.E./B.Tech in Electronics

Tools

Cadence Allegro

OrCAD

Mentor Graphics PADS

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Overview: Overall experience in design, development, testing of hardware embedded boards with Microcontroller, Microprocessor DSP s and FPGA based projects.

Education

A graduate/ Postgraduate in Electronics/ Electrical or related disciplines with experience in digital and mixed signal design.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Responsible for Circuit design, Schematics design, working with PCB layout engineers to come up with the design.
• Coordinate with Manufacturing team for Manufacturing, Board bring up testing and Working with SW team for completion of Boards testing.
• Work as per the schedule and complete the deliverables as provided by HW Lead / Manager as per the schedule, Project plan defined.

Skills

• Hands on experience in working commercial/ industrial/Automotive domain projects from specifications till delivery.
• Experience in any one of the schematic capture tools like Cadence Orcad, allegro PCB layout design tool, signal analyzing or simulation tools hyperlynx and PCB board bring up activities.
• Experience in Power supply Switchers / LDOs / Mixed signal designs / Digital designs (8, 16, 32-bit micro-controller / ARM controller design).
• Experience in design circuits with USB, I2C, SPI, RS232, ADC, DAC, SDR, DDR, Flash Memory IC Interfaces.
• Experience in hardware design analysis like power calculations, worst case analysis will be a plus.
• Hands on experience of test equipments like DSO, Multimeters, Signal analyzer etc.
• Experience / Knowledge about Compliance certification / pre-certification compliance testing of products will be a plus.
• Good team player.
• Preferred Tools Experience in any one of the schematics and Layout Tool. Cadence Allegro OrCAD / Mentor Graphics PADS.

Good to have:

Deep understanding of the FPGA and DSP architectures.

• Expertise in signal integrity for boards involving several Gigabit SERDES lanes and protocols.
• Deep understanding of PCB design techniques for Network, RF and wireless systems.