Propulsion Hardware Design Engineer (6-Month Contract)

Game 7 Staffing; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Game 7 Staffing seeks engineers to support hardware development for an electromechanical propulsion product. You will conduct architectural investigations, perform root cause analysis, and support hardware–software integration across the full hardware lifecycle.

Candidates should have deep experience in analog, digital and power electronics, sensors, motor drivers, and PCB design; familiarity with Altium Designer and Cadence is desired.

Qualifications

• Hardware design experience across the hardware development lifecycle.
• Experience with analog, digital and power electronics; sensors and motor drivers.
• Ability to explain buck-converter operation and related losses.
• Ability to select inductors/capacitors for ripple requirements and voltage ripple.
• Knowledge of high-side buck drive concepts: charge pump, bootstrap, bias supply, gate driver.
• Explain switching losses and linear-mode FET operation with datasheet checks.
• Ability to draw non-inverting and differential amplifier schematics and equations.
• Explain anti-aliasing filters, PCB placement, cutoff frequency, sampling for 150 kHz.

Responsibilities

• Conduct architectural investigations across hardware platforms.
• Perform root cause and worst-case analysis.
• Support hardware–software integration during development.
• Improve manufacturing scalability across the full hardware lifecycle.
• Collaborate on hardware for an electromechanical propulsion product.

Skills

Hardware lifecycle

Analog electronics

Digital electronics

Power electronics

Sensors

PCB design

Buck-converter concepts

Gate drive concepts

PCB layout basics

I2C/SPI familiarity

Tools

Altium Designer

Cadence

RCAD

Mentor Graphics

Job description

Game 7 Staffing seeks engineers to support hardware development for an electromechanical propulsion product. You will conduct architectural investigations, perform root cause analysis, and support hardware–software integration across the full hardware lifecycle.

Candidates should have deep experience in analog, digital and power electronics, sensors, motor drivers, and PCB design; familiarity with Altium Designer and Cadence is desired.