BU RESEARCH & INNOVATION ELECTRONICS PROFESSIONAL - HARDWARE DESIGN

Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering design, development, and support for new exterior and lighting automotive innovation products, including concept design development.
• Maintain effective communication with external and internal customers, including suppliers.
• Capture hardware requirements for electronic design in automotive innovation applications.
• Develop detailed electrical/electronic circuit schematics using designated tools, based on existing design libraries or new circuits as needed, in collaboration with the electronics team. Circuits may include LED driver modules, headlamp control modules, LED matrix drivers, DC/DC SMPS, microcontrollers, LED arrays, and microcontroller-less architectures.
• Perform circuit modeling and worst-case circuit analysis.
• Support electronics testing and validation to ensure designs meet requirements.
• Serve as the single point of contact for all electrical-related topics for assigned projects and maintain documentation in accordance with company processes.
• Collaborate with electronic manufacturing suppliers (EMS) or in-house facilities for electronics production.
• Work with electronics component engineering and purchasing teams to create new parts in the company database for new circuits.
• Develop hardware test plans, DFMEA, design rules, and support new component selection and lamp test plan development.

Experience

• Minimum 1 year of automotive electronics design and development experience.
• B.S. in Hardware Design with embedded systems knowledge, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of electronic circuit modeling using simulation tools such as PSpice, LTSpice, MATLAB, or equivalent.
• Proficient in electronic schematic capture tools.
• Familiarity with engineering tools such as Teamcenter, DOORS NG, Vector CANoe, and Mathcad.
• Experience in designing power electronics, including switching mode power supplies (SMPS), DC-DC converters, and linear regulators in automotive environments is a plus.
• Familiarity with LIN, CAN, and Ethernet (ETH) communication protocols.
• Knowledge of embedded systems design.
• Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team of optical, mechanical, and electronics engineers.
• Proficient in standard business software.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently.

This position is based in Troy,MI.