Embedded Hardware Engineer

Stratos Card; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Stratos, Inc. is seeking an Embedded Hardware Engineer to develop the hardware platform for a pay­ment technology, integrating MCU, FPGA, Bluetooth, sensors, encryption, and power‑management.

You will work with firmware, manufacturing, and mechanical teams to ensure testability, manufacturability, and robust performance across multiple platforms. Expect occasional international travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience creating design specification documents and performing circuit analyses.
• Experience with verification, testing, and QA of deliverables against specs and requirements.
• Board bring up, programming, and debugging MCU-based systems.
• Experience with debugging tools like bus analyzers and oscilloscopes.
• Knowledge of flexible electronics design.

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of the hardware platform for a new payment technology, including MCU, FPGA, Bluetooth Smart, touch sensors, encryption, security, low power.
• Collaborate with firmware engineers on design, self-test, and implementation.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and mechanical engineers for test, manufacturing, failure analysis, and yield improvements.
• Design programming and manufacturing jigs for uncommon form factor.
• Support and review of 3rd party design projects.
• Root cause analysis for initial design and manufacturing issues.
• International travel on occasion.

Skills

Design specification

Schematic analysis

Education

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

PCB layout and design

SPICE analysis

Bus analyzers

Oscilloscopes

Job description

Openings at Stratos

Embedded Hardware Engineer

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Full-time

What are we up to?

Stratos, Inc. is the creator of the Stratos Bluetooth Connected Card™ Platform that combines plastic cards into a single, smart, dynamic card. Credit, debit, loyalty, membership and gift cards can be loaded into one mobile-connected card, empowering people to make better, more informed payment decisions while simplifying transactions through a familiar, reliable form. Stratos allows merchants and card issuers to strengthen brand loyalty with better data and improved communications to card users without infrastructure change.

A day in the life

• Design and implementation of the hardware platform for a new payment technology, including MCU, FPGA, Bluetooth Smart, touch sensors, encryption, security, extreme low power, etc.
• Collaboration with firmware engineers on design, self-test, and implementation.
• Collaboration with manufacturing and mechanical engineers - design for test, design for manufacturing, failure analysis, support for manufacturing testing and yield improvements.
• Design of programming and manufacturing jigs for uncommon form factor.
• Support and review of 3rd party design projects.
• Root cause analysis for initial design and for issues found in manufacturing.
• International travel on occasion.

Your creds

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering or similar degree or equivalent experience.
• 3 years of relevant industry or personal experience.
• Experience in generation of design specification documentation, schematic capture, and circuit analysis.
• Experience with verification, test, and quality assurance of deliverables against specifications and requirements.
• Experience with board bring up and programming and debugging microcontroller based systems.
• Experience with debugging tools like bus analyzers and oscilloscopes.
• Knowledge of flexible electronics design.

We want you to have opinions on

• Altium Designer.
• PCB layout and design.
• SPICE analysis.