Staff Electrical Hardware Engineer

Were ALTEN Technology USA an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to lifefrom advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3000 experts across North America we partner with leading companies in aerospace medical devices robotics automotive commercial vehicles EVs rail and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group57000 engineers in 30 countrieswe deliver across the entire product development cycle from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA youll collaborate on some of the worlds toughest engineering challenges supported by mentorship career growth opportunities and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued supported and inspired to grow.

Workplace: On-site 4 days per week. Friday Remote
Location: Palo Alto CA

Our Design Concept Engineering team is looking for an EE Staff Hardware Engineer to join our fast-paced development working on cutting-edge features with complex hardware sensors and software. You would be responsible for architecting implementing and designing boards for our upcoming product platform including both on-vehicle and off-vehicle components. This work focuses on product-differentiating customer-facing designs and circuits for new products features and development. A good candidate would have a strong background in printed circuit board design schematics and layout and a portfolio of shipping products in which they crafted the specifications did schematic design layout bring up and testing for. They would have knowledge of DC-to-DC converters high speed digital signaling common data buses (I2C SPI) and analog circuit design. Experience with working with oversea CMs and production processes are preferred.

Responsibilities
Electrical Design This would include schematic and layout of key electrical boards as well as providing guidance to JDM/OEMs on executing designs.
Bring Up and validation Bring up designs done in-house and at JDM/OEM. Test designs for reliability and validity. Implement changes to address issues found.
Rapid Prototyping Create quick simple designs to execute design vision of the studio team using off the shelf parts. Understand tradeoffs being made for velocity and mitigate risks that impact team progress.
System Integration Work with other engineering teams to integrate electrical designs into our vehicles.
Influence design decisions - Help define electrical architecture and execution.

Required Qualifications
Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering
10 years of experience with board design
Experience working with Altium eCAD tools
Experience working with contract manufacturers and OEMs
Knowledge of DC/DC converters transmission lines common Data buses analog circuits board design and layout best practices
Experience in technical leadership

Preferred Qualifications
10 years of experience with Systems/HW architectures experience
Python scripting experience
C/C coding experience
Design experience using microprocessors and digital logic
Knowledge in display audio and camera technologies
Experience in motors and encoders
Experience using SI tools such as hyperlink
Experience in ethernet networking
Experience in automotive design (AECxxx CAN LIN T1S)
Experience with validation testing and production design processes

Salary Range
$160000 - 175000
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including but not limited to location the candidates combination of job-related knowledge qualifications skills education training and experience

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status age genetic information or pregnancy.

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