Senior Electrical Engineer

Forterra; Owings Mills (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Forterra is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to join the Core Product team in Clarksburg, MD. You will design and validate hardware for autonomous vehicles, including PCBs with SoCs, high-speed interfaces, and power systems, and mentor a small team through development to production.

Responsibilities include prototyping, testing, and collaborating with systems, safety, software, and procurement across the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• 6+ years of hardware design experience.
• Design and simulation of complex digital and analog circuits.
• Experience with high-speed signals (3GHz+).
• Experience with multi-layer PCB design for high reliability systems.
• Proficiency with test equipment (oscilloscopes, logics analyzers, VNAs).
• Familiarity with Altium/OrCAD and related design tools.

Responsibilities

• Design high-reliability hardware for automotive and military autonomous vehicles.
• Generate design documentation including stress, power budgets, interfaces.
• Provide technical leadership to a small engineering team from concept to production.
• Prototype testing, analysis, simulation, and hardware bring-up.
• Maintain validation test matrices and collaborate cross-functionally across teams.

Skills

Hardware design

Problem solving

Cross-functional work

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Firmware interfaces

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

LTSpice

HyperLynx

Altium Designer

OrCAD

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

VNA

Job description

Forterra is looking for a hands-on Electrical Engineer to join the Core Product team in Clarksburg, MD.

You will be working with a small team of engineers to develop autonomous systems for military and commercial vehicles. This involves designing and building the systems critical for autonomous vehicles using components such as embedded computers, power systems, networkingcomponentsand various sensors.

Your time will be split between working on the next gen systemdesign, andmaintaining existing fielded designs. This involves working on PCB/CCA designs with SoCs, microprocessors/controllers,andinterfacessuch asDDR,I2C, CAN, SPI,SerDesand automotive ethernet. You will also work on power supply designs for both PCBs designed in-house, as well as COTS components. Integration and debug of both in-house designs and COTS designs is also necessary for the role, as quick technology updates are always on the roadmap.

What you'll do

Design

• Design high-reliability & high-safety criticality hardware for both commercial and military autonomous vehicles.
• Generate design documentation for design maintainability, such as stress analysis, power budgets, firmware/hardware interfaces, SI and PI analysis,componentand design trades.
• Provide technical leadership on projects to guide a small, focused team of electrical engineers to develop new hardware designs from concept through production.

Validation

• Suggest and perform prototyping testing for risk-reduction of circuits at thecomponent, subsystem, and system levels.
• Perform validation testing of designs through analysis, simulation, and hardware testing.
• Conduct hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation testing at board and subsystem levels.
• Maintaindesign verification test matrix.
• Participatein interdisciplinary design teams and design reviews.
• Work cross functionally with systems, safety, software, test, other engineeringgroupsand procurement throughout all phases of the product development lifecycle.

Long-Term Support

• Identifyand implement improvements of designs to reduce cost, increase yield, and improve throughput.
• Provide production build support for the manufacturing of prototypes through volume ramp-up to production.
• Mentor and train junior engineers.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• 6+ years of hardware design experience.
• Design and simulation of complex digital and analog circuits, using circuit simulator, signalintegrityand power integrity tools likeLTSpiceandHyperLynx.
• Experience working with analog and high-speed (3GHz+) digital signals.
• Experience designing high power and high-speed PCBstackupsfor high-reliability / high-safety criticality systems.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, hands-on abilities, and working knowledge of common test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and VNAs.
• Familiarity with design, analysis and manufacturing standards associated with complex multi-layer PCBs.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems independently.
• Ability to work cross-functionally.
• Experience with design for cost,testand manufacturing.
• Experience with Altium Designer, OrCAD, or similar schematic capture / PCB Layout software.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in small engineering team environment.
• Experience with automotive hardware design.
• Experience designing networking hardware.
• Experience designing embedded computers.
• Experience working with automotive camera system designs including GMSL & MIPI CSI-2.
• Experience with safety standards such as ISO 26262 and MIL-STD-882E.
• Familiarity electricaland environmental standards such as with MIL-STD-1275, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD- 810.