Automotive Hardware Design Engineer

ManpowerGroup; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 63,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

401(k) with match

Weekly pay

Job summary

ManpowerGroup is seeking an Automotive Hardware Design Engineer in Palo Alto (onsite) with an emphasis on developing ECUs for next-generation EV platforms. The role offers strong career progression from hardware design to technical leadership in the automotive electronics domain.

You will contribute to cross-functional teams, lead root-cause investigations, and drive design improvements across the product lifecycle, ensuring reliability and performance of high-speed interfaces and power systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering or related field.
• 7 years of hardware design and development experience, ideally in Automotive.
• Strong foundation in analog and digital circuit design principles.
• Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB layout tools (Altium, Cadence, or OrCAD).
• Solid understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, and thermal management.
• Hands-on experience with networking and communication protocols (Ethernet, PCIe, MIPI, GMSL).
• Hands-on experience with high-speed design validation and circuit debugging.

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing support for deployed hardware systems, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Identify opportunities for design enhancements and implement changes to improve efficiency, scalability, and manufacturability.
• Lead investigations into hardware failures, applying analytical techniques to identify and resolve root causes.
• Develop and execute test plans to validate hardware functionality, performance, and compliance with industry standards.
• Work closely with software, firmware, and mechanical engineering teams to ensure seamless integration and product success.

Skills

Analog & digital design

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Networking protocols

High-speed validation

Circuit debugging

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Electrical/Electronics/CE

Tools

Altium

Cadence

OrCAD

Job description

Job Title: Automotive Hardware Design Engineer

Location: Palo Alto or Irvine, CA (Onsite)

Pay Range: 55 W2

What's the Job?

Strong Career Progression: Opportunity to grow into Senior Hardware Engineer, Technical Lead, Principal Engineer, or Engineering Manager roles within the EV and automotive electronics domain

Key Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing support for deployed hardware systems, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Identify opportunities for design enhancements and implement changes to improve efficiency, scalability, and manufacturability.
• Lead investigations into hardware failures, applying analytical techniques to identify and resolve root causes.
• Develop and execute test plans to validate hardware functionality, performance, and compliance with industry standards.
• Work closely with software, firmware, and mechanical engineering teams to ensure seamless integration and product success.

Mandatory Skills

• Bachelors degree or higher in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering or a related field, with 7 years of experience in hardware design and development, ideally in Automotive.
• Strong foundation in analog and digital circuit design principles.
• Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium, Cadence, or OrCAD.
• Solid understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, and thermal management.
• Hands-on experience with networking and communication protocols (e.g., Ethernet, PCIe, MIPI, GMSL).
• Hands-on experiences with High speed design validation and circuit debugging

What's in it for the Candidate?

• Work on Next-Generation EV Technology: Be directly involved in designing and developing Electronic Control Units (ECUs) that power cutting-edge electric vehicle platforms.

• High Visibility & Impact: Contribute to mission-critical hardware systems that influence vehicle performance, safety, reliability, and customer experience

• Advanced Hardware Development Exposure: Gain hands-on experience with analog/digital circuit design, high-speed interfaces, signal integrity, power integrity, and automotive-grade electronics.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with software, firmware, mechanical, validation, and manufacturing teams, providing broad product development exposure.

• Technical Leadership Opportunities: Lead root-cause investigations, drive design improvements, and influence engineering decisions throughout the product lifecycle.

• Automotive Industry Growth: Join one of the fastest-growing segments of the industry, building expertise in EV technologies that are in high demand across the market.

• End-to-End Product Ownership: Participate from concept and design through validation, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement.

• Exposure to Industry-Leading Tools & Technologies: Utilize advanced design platforms such as Altium, Cadence, OrCAD, and work with high-speed communication protocols including Ethernet, PCIe, MIPI, and GMSL

• Innovation-Driven Environment: Solve complex engineering challenges involving hardware validation, circuit debugging, thermal management, and system optimization.

Benefits

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans

• Dental Plan

• Vision Plan

• Health Savings Account

• Health Flexible Spending Account

• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account

• Supplemental Life Insurance

• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance

• Business Travel Insurance

• 401(k), Plus Match

• Weekly Pay

About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells

ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands - Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells - creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2023 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 14th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.

ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.