Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer

Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer Cheshire, CT How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW? XXXX is looking for an Electrical Hardware Engineer with 5 years of experience developing hardware for embedded systems. Rudimentary firmware design experience is a plus. The candidate will be accountable for designing, building, and testing printed circuit boards (PCB) for electronic products for the gas industry. The candidate will also design, develop and build test fixtures for production volumes and create test plans for a variety of projects within the group. We require an individual that is comfortable working in a collaborative, multidisciplinary team and competent in the role of a hardware design engineer with experience in designing circuits in OrCad, Altium, PADs etc. Design, build, test, and document electronic products from concept, feasibility, prototyping through production. Create hardware design requirements, test plan and test results documentation for various systems. Conduct system functional tests, and troubleshoot devices and equipment as required. Communicate with board houses, becoming the main point of contact (technically) to minimize errors/delay in board production/delivery date. Prepare product drawings, schematics and bills of material that meet project requirements. Provide and continuously communicate time and cost estimates. Provide ongoing technical assistance to manufacturing. Work closely with software engineers in specifying components for efficient firmware design. ________________________ Are you a MATCH? BS in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field. 5 years of experience designing, building, and testing hardware for embedded systems. Embedded microcontroller based hardware design, including peripheral devices such as A/D converters, voltage/current switches/regulators/controllers/monitors, memories, batteries, displays, keypads, solar panels, and charging system controllers. Experience with board testing & verification from board houses. Knowledge/experience with proper PC board/System level design so as to preclude electromagnetic compatibility issues and ESD within an RF/Embedded microcontroller antenna based system Experienced using oscilloscopes, network analyzers, spectrum analyzers and basic lab tools and instruments. Expert knowledge of schematic capture software such as OrCad, Altium, PADs or equivalent. Experience with low power wireless sensor designs preferred. Experience with design for Hazardous Locations preferred. Experience with RF wireless communication technologies such as 4G, 5G, Dust, Sigfox and LoRa preferred. Experience in documenting and obtaining TUV, EMC, UL, and FCC regulatory approvals preferred. Experience with basic firmware design in C, C++, Assembly etc. preferred. Experience with FPGAs and CPLD preferred.