Senior Hardware Engineer

Brief Description

Following the appropriate design assurance process, specify, design, develop, debug and verify the electronics implementation of the entire or sub-function of an Avionics Electronics Products consisting of PCBA, digital circuits, analog circuits, microprocessor, FPGA, power supply, EMI and ESD/lightning protections, connectors and mechanical enclosures, etc.

Primary Responsibilities

Capture, categorize, document and validate the hardware requirements.

Define board level functional architecture, choose the key technologies and components

Design and capture schematics, lead the design reviews

Write hardware documents, including but not limited to hardware design specification, hardware verification plan, hardware development plan, hardware test procedure, hardware verification report, hardware and software interface specification, etc.

Write the layout and routing constraints, provide board level layout and routing directives to external PCB layout vendor, follow up the PCB layout/routing

Perform circuit calculations and analysis, including but not limited to power consumption calculation, MTBF calculation, signal integrity analysis, etc.

Generate the bill of material, interact with PCBA vendor to build prototypes.

Lead project planning and manage execution to schedule and budget.

Ownership to solve the technical problems during the product whole product life cycle, interact with other engineers to insure proper implementation with project requirements.

Serve as a mentor role to less experienced design engineers.

Qualifications Required

Bachelor’s degree with at least 10 years in electronics system design, implementation and verification.

Experience in civil Aerospace or alternatively in high-reliability high-availability transportation, automotive, telecom or industrial field is highly desirable.

Practical and solid design experience in high speed digital circuits, A/D, Op-Amps, DC/DC power supply, PPC, ARM Cortex A53 or later version based microprocessor, DDR3/4 interface, FPGA design (Verilog or VHDL), USB interface, Ethernet interface, SD card interface, LCD display interface, etc.

Familiar with ARINC 664 End System/Switch development.

Theoretical and practical EMI/EMC experience, proficient in the EMI/ESD and lightning protection circuits design

Proficient in using one of hardware design tools, such as Mentor, Cadence, etc.

Proficient in using simulation tools (Pspice, Multisim, etc.) and calculation tools (Mathcad or equivalent)

Proficient in using lab equipment, including but not limited to Oscilloscope, logic analyzer, etc.

Good knowledge of state of the art PCB technology and components

Experience with driving suppliers

Fluent in English, both in written and oral, be able to communicate and discuss the technical issues and questions with global team in English, both in Email and on the phone

“Can-do” spirit, be able to quickly adapt to changing environment, rigorous

Qualifications Desired

Knowledge of Avionics standards, include DO-254, DO-297, APR4754a, ARINC 664, ARINC 429, ARINC 825, ARINC 653, etc.

Working knowledge of component failure mode, derating calculation, FMEA (Failure Mode Effect Analysis)

Avionics (DO-160G) or automotive EMI/EMC troubleshooting and qualification testing

Ability to independently achieve results in a cross-functional environment.

Specific experience of working within some of the following development lifecycle phases: Electronics Requirements Capture, Design, Integration and Verification