EV High-Speed ECU Hardware Design Engineer

Capgemini; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Capgemini Engineering seeks a highly skilled High-Speed Hardware Design Engineer to join the team developing next-generation ECUs for Electric Vehicles. You will design, validate, and optimize advanced hardware systems powering automotive tech, collaborating with software, firmware, and mechanical teams.

This role emphasizes system reliability, test planning, and root-cause analysis across the product lifecycle, with onsite work in Palo Alto, CA or Irvine, CA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics/CE with 7+ years in hardware design.
• Strong analog and digital circuit design fundamentals.
• Experience with Altium, Cadence or OrCAD for schematic capture and PCB layout.
• Exposure to signal, power integrity and thermal management.
• Experience with Ethernet, PCIe, MIPI, GMSL networks.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts across teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing support for released hardware products, ensuring system reliability, quality, and performance throughout the product lifecycle.
• Identify opportunities to enhance existing designs and implement improvements to increase efficiency, scalability, manufacturability, and overall product performance.
• Lead root cause investigations of hardware failures, utilizing systematic troubleshooting and analytical methodologies to develop effective corrective actions.
• Create, execute, and document comprehensive test plans to validate hardware functionality, performance, reliability, and compliance with automotive and industry standards.
• Perform high-speed circuit validation, debugging, and failure analysis to ensure robust hardware operation.
• Collaborate closely with software, firmware, systems, and mechanical engineering teams to support successful product integration and delivery.

Skills

High-speed design

Analog circuit design

Digital circuit design

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Thermal management

Ethernet

PCIe

MIPI

GMSL

High-speed validation

Root cause analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering

Tools

Altium

Cadence

OrCAD

Job description

Capgemini Engineering seeks a highly skilled High-Speed Hardware Design Engineer to join the team developing next-generation ECUs for Electric Vehicles. You will design, validate, and optimize advanced hardware systems powering automotive tech, collaborating with software, firmware, and mechanical teams.

This role emphasizes system reliability, test planning, and root-cause analysis across the product lifecycle, with onsite work in Palo Alto, CA or Irvine, CA.