Senior IoT Hardware Architect — Smart Home Systems

Traka (Assa Abloy); Lake Forest (CA); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

ASSA ABLOY's Americas Residential Electronics team in Lake Forest, CA is seeking a Sr. Hardware Engineer to lead hardware projects for next-generation smart home security devices. You will partner with firmware, mechanical, software, and supply chain teams to drive design, validation, and release readiness.

We value hands-on prototyping, multi-layer PCB layouts in Altium, and experience with RF, IoT connectivity, and compliance testing. Hybrid work with three days in the office is available.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar is required.
• 6+ years of progressive hardware or product engineering experience.
• Strong hardware architecture, interface definition, and validation planning experience.
• Proven board-level design, component selection, and electro-mechanical debugging skills.
• Experience with DFM/DFA, compliance, reliability, and manufacturing readiness.
• Mentor engineers and lead technical execution for hardware projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware project execution for assigned products or major subsystems.
• Define system-level interfaces, component strategy, and validation plans.
• Mentor hardware engineers and provide technical guidance on design quality.
• Drive complex debugging and root-cause analysis across electro-mechanical systems.
• Lead design and reviews for schematics, layouts, drawings, BOMs, tooling, and test results.
• Manage prototype assemblies, pilot builds, bring-up, and design verification.
• Partner with firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, operations, and supply chain teams.
• Manage technical risks, tradeoffs, change control, and release readiness.
• Improve development, DFM/DFA, validation, and documentation practices.
• Ensure hardware quality, reliability, manufacturability, and compliance readiness.

Skills

Hardware architecture

Board-level design

MCU layout

I2C/SPI/UART

RF debugging

Altium PCB design

Jira

Confluence

Education

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Jira

Confluence

Job description

ASSA ABLOY's Americas Residential Electronics team in Lake Forest, CA is seeking a Sr. Hardware Engineer to lead hardware projects for next-generation smart home security devices. You will partner with firmware, mechanical, software, and supply chain teams to drive design, validation, and release readiness.

We value hands-on prototyping, multi-layer PCB layouts in Altium, and experience with RF, IoT connectivity, and compliance testing. Hybrid work with three days in the office is available.