Job Description
A Senior Hardware Systems Engineer responsible for designing, developing, and validating high-volume IoT hardware products, collaborating with cross-functional teams and external partners to ensure performance, manufacturability, and cost efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the electrical engineering aspects of product architecture and design, including component selection, thermals, and antennas.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate system features, create specifications, and make tradeoffs for development.
- Lead the development process from prototyping through field validation, ensuring performance, cost, and schedule goals are met.
- Manage relationships with ODM and JDM partners to design, validate, and manufacture high-volume hardware products.
- Conduct research on the latest semiconductor technologies and system design innovations.
- Debug and validate system bring-up, including desense, power, and validation testing.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of experience shipping high volume hardware programs with ODM and JDM partners.
- Systems design expertise including chipset SoC selection, power optimization, antennas RF, batteries, sensors, PCB design, etc.
- Proven record navigating tradeoffs between design, manufacturability, schedule, and cost.
- Experience working on a wide variety of systems for different use cases including automotive, indoor and outdoor industrial areas leveraging low power, wireless LTE, BLE, WiFi, GPS, embedded AI ML, imaging, sensors, etc.
- Proven record of system bring-up debug including desense, validation, power, etc.
- BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
- Ability to travel up to 25% when necessary.
- Strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and drive independent work.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Experience with certifications and testing involved with industrial and automotive settings such as ISO16750, AECQ100, etc.
- Schematic and layout experience in Altium and Cadence Allegro.
- Systems design expertise with cameras and in extreme environmental conditions.
- Experience with design for supply, design for reliability testing, and design for manufacture.
Benefits & Perks
Competitive total compensation package including base salary, bonuses, RSUs, and performance-based equity refresh awards
Hybrid work schedule requiring three days in the office and two days remote
Relocation assistance provided
Flexible working model supporting remote, hybrid, and in-office work arrangements
Health benefits
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