Hardware Design Engineer

Avance Consulting; Novi (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Avance Consulting in Novi, Michigan is seeking an experienced hardware engineer to lead automotive electronic hardware development from concept through production. You will translate customer and system requirements into hardware architecture and schematic design for analog, digital, power-supply, and MCU-based circuits.

Responsibilities include reviewing PCB placement, routing, stack-up, grounding, shielding, thermal management, signal integrity, and power integrity; performing simulations,

Qualifications

• Translate customer requirements into hardware architecture and schematics.
• Design analog, digital, power-supply, sensor-interface, and MCU-based circuits.
• Review PCB placement, routing, stack-up, grounding, shielding, thermal management, signal integrity, and power integrity.
• Perform circuit simulations, worst-case, tolerance, derating, and power-budget analyses.
• Lead hardware design reviews and ensure timely closure of findings.
• Develop and maintain BOM and support component obsolescence management.
• Support prototype development, bring-up, integration, debugging, and testing.
• Define hardware verification and validation plans, test specifications, acceptance criteria, and test reports.
• Support EMC, ESD, environmental, vibration, thermal, and reliability testing.
• Investigate issues using root-cause analysis.
• Coordinate with system, software, mechanical, validation, manufacturing, supplier, and customer teams.
• Support design-for-manufacturing, design-for-testability, design-for-reliability, and production-launch activities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior hardware engineers and offshore teams.
• Support technical discussions, estimates, planning, customer reviews, and delivery commitments.

Responsibilities

• Lead automotive electronic hardware development from concept through production.
• Translate requirements into hardware architecture and documents.
• Design analog, digital, power-supply, and MCU-based circuits.
• Review PCB layout, routing, stack-up, grounding, shielding, thermal management, and signal integrity.
• Perform circuit simulations, worst-case, tolerance, derating, and power-budget analyses.
• Drive hardware design reviews to closure and BOM management.
• Support prototype development, bring-up, testing, and validation.

Skills

Lead hardware development

Analog & Digital design

Power-supply design

MCU circuits

PCB layout review

Signal integrity

Thermal management

Automotive qualifications

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Job description

• Design analog, digital, power-supply, communication, sensor-interface, and microcontroller-based circuits.
• Perform component selection considering performance, automotive qualification, reliability, availability, lifecycle, and cost.
• Review and guide PCB placement, routing, stack-up, grounding, shielding, thermal management, signal integrity, and power integrity.
• Perform circuit simulations, worst-case analysis, tolerance analysis, derating analysis, power-budget analysis, and design calculations.
• Conduct hardware design reviews and ensure timely closure of technical findings.
• Develop and maintain the Bill of Materials and support component obsolescence management.
• Support prototype development, board bring-up, integration, debugging, and functional testing.
• Define hardware verification and validation plans, test specifications, acceptance criteria, and test reports.
• Support EMC, ESD, electrical transient, environmental, vibration, thermal, and reliability testing.
• Investigate design, manufacturing, validation, and field issues using structured root-cause analysis.
• Coordinate with system, software, mechanical, optics, validation, manufacturing, supplier, and customer teams.
• Support design-for-manufacturing, design-for-testability, design-for-reliability, and production-launch activities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior hardware engineers and offshore teams.
• Support technical discussions, estimates, planning, customer reviews, and delivery commitments.

Qualifications

Essential Skills: Lead automotive electronic hardware development from concept through production.

Required Skills

• Translate customer and system requirements into hardware requirements, architecture, block diagrams, schematics, and detailed design documentation.
• Design analog, digital, power-supply, communication, sensor-interface, and microcontroller-based circuits.
• Perform component selection considering performance, automotive qualification, reliability, availability, lifecycle, and cost.
• Review and guide PCB placement, routing, stack-up, grounding, shielding, thermal management, signal integrity, and power integrity.
• Perform circuit simulations, worst-case analysis, tolerance analysis, derating analysis, power-budget analysis, and design calculations.
• Conduct hardware design reviews and ensure timely closure of technical findings.
• Develop and maintain the Bill of Materials and support component obsolescence management.
• Support prototype development, board bring-up, integration, debugging, and functional testing.
• Define hardware verification and validation plans, test specifications, acceptance criteria, and test reports.
• Support EMC, ESD, electrical transient, environmental, vibration, thermal, and reliability testing.
• Investigate design, manufacturing, validation, and field issues using structured root-cause analysis.
• Coordinate with system, software, mechanical, optics, validation, manufacturing, supplier, and customer teams.
• Support design-for-manufacturing, design-for-testability, design-for-reliability, and production-launch activities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior hardware engineers and offshore teams.
• Support technical discussions, estimates, planning, customer reviews, and delivery commitments.