Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer, Central Compute ECU

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM Vehicle discounts

Tuition assistance

Job summary

General Motors in Sunnyvale is seeking a Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer to advance hardware architecture, mixed-signal design, and ECU integration for next‑generation compute platforms and ADAS. You will lead schematic development, component selection, layout guidance, bench bring‑up, and HSIS/HW–SW interfaces with software teams.

You will contribute to DFMEA, Functional Safety considerations, and system‑level validation while collaborating with hardware, systems, and software engineers

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in automotive or high-complexity electronics development.
• Strong fundamentals in analog and digital circuit design.
• Experience with schematic development and PCB layout guidance.
• Hands-on bench debugging experience.
• Experience contributing to WCCA and DFMEA.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to hardware architecture including power topology, high-speed interfaces, clocking, resets, and system partitioning.
• Develop and review schematics for complex mixed-signal and high-speed digital designs.
• Perform component selection with consideration for electrical performance, automotive qualification, reliability, thermal, and power constraints.
• Provide PCB layout guidance for signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, and EMI mitigation.
• Participate in design reviews and technical trade studies.
• Perform and review electrical analysis including WCCA, power distribution, sequencing validation, and interface margin evaluation.
• Contribute to DFMEA activities, addressing design and interaction risks.
• Support Functional Safety (FuSA) hardware considerations as applicable.
• Lead bench-level bring-up including power-on sequencing, clock validation, reset behavior, and interface activation.
• Debug hardware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol tools.
• Analyze failures and drive root-cause resolution across hardware and system boundaries.
• Provide feedback to improve design robustness and integration margin.
• Develop and maintain Hardware Software Interface Specifications (HSIS).
• Collaborate with software teams during boot and low-level driver bring-up to ensure clear interfaces.

Skills

Analog & Digital

Schematic Design

PCB Layout Guidance

Bench Debugging

DFMEA

WCCA

FuSA Hardware

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Job description

General Motors in Sunnyvale is seeking a Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer to advance hardware architecture, mixed-signal design, and ECU integration for next‑generation compute platforms and ADAS. You will lead schematic development, component selection, layout guidance, bench bring‑up, and HSIS/HW–SW interfaces with software teams.

You will contribute to DFMEA, Functional Safety considerations, and system‑level validation while collaborating with hardware, systems, and software engineers