Position: Hardware Engineer
Location: Houston TX (Onsite)
Exp: 5-10 Yrs
Contract or Permanent
Must Have: Drilling Downhole Oil&Gas
Responsibilities
- Expertise in Hardware redesign especially skilled value engineering reverse engineering/re-engineering.
- Conduct system evaluations investigate problems and make appropriate recommendations to modify designs as needed.
- Identify and recommend product functions improvements for the existing design at different stages to improve technical performance.
- Expertise in Hardware design PCB tools Functional Safety DFMEA Circuit analysis Simulation & EMI/EMC.
- Experience on all stages of Hardware Product Development Lifecycle.
- Experience in different microcontrollers processors and FPGA based designs.
- Digital Analog Mixed Signal Design Experience for Oil & Gas products.
- Familiarity with different communication protocols interfaces.
- Component selection design calculations and worst-case analysis
- Hands on experience on design verification testing & troubleshooting and failure analysis
- Experience In hardware/product integration testing compliance support
- Experience in High-speed design like Ethernet DDRx SPI interfaces
- Product qualification / Compliances test experiences.
- Experience in Multi-layer PCB Layout design approach design reviews SI knowledge.
- Exposure to design tools - ORCAD Allegro / Mentor Graphics PADs
Primary Skills
- Drilling Downhole Oil&Gas
- Hardware Analog and Mixed signal design
- Microcontroller based multi-chip board development for oil & gas environment
- Familiarity with board-to-board communication protocols like SPI I2C CAN
- Additional experience with FPGA based hardware design
- Experience with schematic & layout; schematics & PCB tools
- Hands on experience on design verification testing & troubleshooting and failure analysis
- Good verbal and written communication skills
Qualifications
- A bachelors degree in the appropriate discipline and 7 years of relevant experience.
- The candidate must be detail oriented with strong organizational skills and the ability to problem solve independently
- The candidate be an expert user in Altium Designer or other similar tools.
- Strong understanding of Electronic Hardware design
- Demonstrated technical problem-solving aptitude
- Exceptional communication skills written and verbal
- Strong Customer Service orientation to work with Design Engineering Customers
- Demonstrated ability to multitask and prioritize work
- General ability to be the focal for designs and provide CAD tool expertise to internal customers
- Demonstrated ability to follow through with work assignments and support managements policies and procedures
- Must be able to demonstrate an ability to continually learn new technologies and processes