Hardware Design Engineer

Job Title: Engineer: Hardware - II
Work Location: 1900 Prairie City Rd. Folsom CA USA 95630
Duration 12 + Months

Description:

100% onsite at Folsom campus
Electrical Hardware engineer requirements
Bachelors degree (required) in electrical engineering with 5+ years hardware design experience.

Duties
Assist in running bench tests and bringing up boards. Meet with other team members
throughout the day. Assist software engineers and techs in the lab with the work they are
doing.
Design experience is also needed with component selection experience.
Design and have built electronic circuits under the guidance of the lead electrical engineer.
This lead engineer has a strong understanding of how the circuit needs to be designed and
so will provide reference designs to get you headed in the right direction. You will need to
possibly do some analysis however. And then you will do the schematic capture and direct
the activities of the PCB layout person (you will not lay out the boards but you must review
them and direct the work of the layout person). Check the paperwork and create ECOs to
release it.
You will write the board validation plan and perform all testing personally. These circuits are
mostly analog, heavy in op amps.
Strong understanding of analog and digital hardware, including voltage regulators (linear
and switchers), op amps, transistors, microcontrollers, high speed communications, and
analog multiplexors.
You will assist in the bringing up and debugging of other PCBs in this program.
5+ years experience designing, testing and debugging electrical hardware circuits (analog
and digital), and systems to the component level.
5 years min experience using oscilloscopes and function generators regularly. Meaning at
least a few days per month. IE 100 days over your career using ‘scopes, DMMs, power
supplies and function generators.
Excellent technical writing skills including experience writing specifications and test plans
Experience with schematic capture programs. Cadence is preferred.
Ability to look at a schematic and determine how to e􀆯iciently test each section, including
to build custom test jigs to allow for fast testing of individual sub-sections.
Ability to work from minimal verbal requirements, capture those into written technical
documents (IE write up test plans and spec) and then execute these test plans. Ability to
produce written test reports for these tests.
Ability to read data sheets for complex devices and then boil that down into what the
software/firmware engineers need to do to make that chip work. For example for I2C and
SPI I/O expanders and multiplexers.
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