Lead Automotive Hardware Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services; Novi (MI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Medical coverage

Parental leave

Auto & Home insurance

Commuter benefits

Training reimbursement

Vacation & holidays

401K plan

Student loan help

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services seeks a senior hardware engineer to lead automotive electronic hardware development from concept to production. You will translate customer requirements into hardware architecture, design analog/digital/power circuits, and guide PCB layout with a focus on signal integrity and reliability.

The role requires hands-on experience with MCU interfaces, power-management designs, automotive interfaces (CAN/LIN/Ethernet), and strong problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in automotive hardware design.
• Proficiency in analog and digital circuit design.
• Hands-on experience with microcontrollers, processors, memories, sensors, and interfaces.
• Design power-management circuits including DC-DC converters, LDOs, protection, and sequencing.
• Knowledge of CAN, LIN, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, UART, and related physical-layer circuits.
• Experience with schematic-capture and PCB-design tools (Altium, Cadence, Mentor, Zuken).
• Circuit simulation tools such as LTspice, PSpice, HyperLynx, or equivalents.
• Understanding of high-speed PCB design, SI/PI, grounding, shielding.
• Lab instrumentation including oscilloscopes, analyzers, spectrum/network analyzers.
• Knowledge of automotive EMC/ESD and environmental requirements.
• Familiarity with AEC-Q100/AEC-Q200.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead automotive electronic hardware development from concept through production.
• Translate requirements into hardware architecture, schematics, and detailed designs.
• Design analog, digital, power, communication, sensor-interface circuits.
• Perform component selection considering performance, reliability, and cost.
• Review PCB placement, routing, stack-up, grounding, thermal management, SI/PI.
• Conduct circuit simulations, worst-case and tolerance analyses, power budgeting.
• Lead hardware design reviews and close technical findings.
• Maintain BOM and obsolescence management.
• Support prototype bring-up, debugging, and validation.
• Define hardware verification plans, test specs, acceptance criteria, and reports.
• Support EMC/ESD/transient, environmental, vibration and reliability testing.
• Investigate design issues using root-cause analysis.
• Coordinate with system, software, mechanical, validation, manufacturing, supplier teams.
• Support design-for-manufacturing/testability/reliability and production-launch activities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior and offshore teams.
• Support technical discussions, estimates, planning, and customer reviews.

Skills

Automotive hardware

Analog/digital design

MCU interfaces

Power management

CAN/LIN/Ethernet

Schematic/PCB tools

Circuit simulation

High-speed PCB

Lab instrumentation

EMC/ESD/Transient

AEC qualification

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Tools

Altium Designer

Cadence OrCAD

Mentor Graphics

Zuken

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services seeks a senior hardware engineer to lead automotive electronic hardware development from concept to production. You will translate customer requirements into hardware architecture, design analog/digital/power circuits, and guide PCB layout with a focus on signal integrity and reliability.

The role requires hands-on experience with MCU interfaces, power-management designs, automotive interfaces (CAN/LIN/Ethernet), and strong problem-solving skills.