Electrical HW Sr. Engineer

hitachi; Harrodsburg (KY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Astemo Americas, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to support the development of automotive ECU hardware, including analog/digital circuit design, EMC design, and prototype testing.

The role involves leading engineers across sub-projects, coordinating with customer teams to meet requirements, and occasionally traveling to global locations to drive program goals to production readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical and/or Computer Engineering
• 5–8 years of automotive ECU development experience
• Ability to lead and mentor engineers and interface with customers
• Willingness to travel domestically to global locations (approx. 10%)

Responsibilities

• Support the development of automotive ECU hardware from concept to production
• Analyze and simulate analog and digital circuits; support EMC design and PCB layout
• Lead and mentor sub-teams; coordinate with customer engineers to meet program goals
• Travel to multiple global locations to support project development

Skills

Embedded hardware design

Automotive ECU development

Leadership/mentoring

Customer interfacing

Analog & digital design

MS Office

Education

Electrical and/or Computer Engineering degree

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Location: Harrodsburg, Kentucky, United States

Job ID: R0007307

Date Posted: 2022-02-18-08:00

Company Name: Hitachi Astemo Americas, Inc.

Profession (Job Category): Engineering & Science

Job Schedule: Full time

Remote: No

Job Description

General Responsibilities: Plans and manages activities for multiple projects to ensure goals or objectives are accomplished within a prescribed time frame by performing any combination of all essential duties and responsibilities.

Job Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of this position is to support the development of automotive embedded electronic control unit hardware. The duties include supporting analog and digital circuit design through analysis and simulation, EMC design including the support for PCB layout, EMC test plan development, troubleshooting EMC anomalies, product specification negotiation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, overseeing the testing of prototypes, and following the development through to production. In addition, the position will be responsible for supporting the root cause analysis of modules returned by the customer during the development stage.

In addition to the technical attributes of the position, there are also leadership responsibilities. This includes leading and mentoring the efforts of engineers who are responsible for sub-project activities. The candidate will need to work directly with customer engineers, and team members, to negotiate some product requirements. The candidate will be responsible for working with customer engineers to ensure that program goals are met, schedules are maintained, and problems encountered during the development process are satisfactorily resolved. The candidate will need to work with, and lead, other project team members and design engineers, in resolving issues related to the design of the electronic hardware. The candidate will occasionally need to travel to multiple global locations to support project development.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will:

• Possess a bachelor or masters degree in Electrical and/or Computer Engineering;
• Have a minimum of 5-8 years applicable experience in automotive ECU development;
• Have the ability to lead and mentor lesser experienced engineers;
• Have experience interfacing with customers;
• Be able to coordinate program activities with team members at remote sites
• Have embedded H/W design experience for automotive applications;
• Design experience with both analog and digital circuits is mandatory;
• Have experience coordinating and facilitating several small projects and/or one major project.

Additionally, the ability to work independently with minimal direction is required, as are strong verbal and written communication skills. Experience with PCs and application software, such as MS Office tools, is also required.

Working Conditions

Physical Demands: Required to sit or stand for long periods of time. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Travel: Domestic may be required as needed (approx. 10%). The candidate will occasionally need to travel to multiple global locations to support project development.

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Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)-Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job at Hitachi, please send the nature of request and contact information to [e-mail]. Queries other than accommodation requests will not be responded to.