RMA - Hardware Design Engineer

Capgemini; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 57,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini seeks an Electrical Design Engineer for an ECU hardware design project in Palo Alto. The contract role spans 7 months 14 days, focusing on design, development, validation, and optimization of mission-critical automotive electronics.

The candidate should have a Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering with at least 7 years in hardware design, including analog/digital circuits, high-speed design, and thermal management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering or related field with 7 years of hardware design experience.
• Strong foundation in analog and digital circuit design.
• Experience with Altium, Cadence, or OrCAD; hardware design in Automotive.

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing support for deployed hardware systems, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Identify opportunities for design enhancements and implement changes to improve efficiency, scalability, and manufacturability.
• Lead investigations into hardware failures, applying analytical techniques to identify and resolve root causes.
• Develop and execute test plans to validate hardware functionality, performance, and compliance with industry standards.
• Work closely with software, firmware, and mechanical engineering teams to ensure seamless integration and product success.

Skills

Analog & digital design

Schematic capture

PCB layout

High-speed design

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Thermal management

Networking protocols

Ethernet

PCIe

MIPI

GMSL

Circuit debugging

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Altium

Cadence

OrCAD

Job description

RMA - Hardware Design Engineer (Contract)

Contract (7 months 14 days)

Published 2 days ago

hardware support

EDA tools

PCB Design

thermal management

failure analysis

We’re seeking an Electrical Design Engineer to join our innovative team focused on building Electronics Control Unit (ECU) for Electric Vehicles. This is a high-impact role where you’ll contribute to the design, development, validation and optimization of mission-critical systems used by global enterprises.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide ongoing support for deployed hardware systems, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Identify opportunities for design enhancements and implement changes to improve efficiency, scalability, and manufacturability.
• Lead investigations into hardware failures, applying analytical techniques to identify and resolve root causes.
• Develop and execute test plans to validate hardware functionality, performance, and compliance with industry standards.
• Work closely with software, firmware, and mechanical engineering teams to ensure seamless integration and product success.

Mandatory Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering or a related field, with 7 years of experience in hardware design and development, ideally in Automotive.
• Strong foundation in analog and digital circuit design principles.
• Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium, Cadence, or OrCAD.
• Solid understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, and thermal management.
• Hands-on experience with networking and communication protocols (e.g., Ethernet, PCIe, MIPI, GMSL).
• Hands-on experiences with High speed design validation and circuit debugging
• Demonstrates strong problem-solving skills and keen attention to detail, with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences through both written and verbal channels

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $41.61/hour - $65.01/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information.

In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.