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Hardware Engineer
Location: Hyderabad, India Posted On: January 04th, 2016

Job Description:

Hardware Engineer is expected to understand the specification and contribute in the architecture, design and development of a product. He/she will capture schematics considering industry standards, contribute in part selection, analyze and participate in design reviews. Upholding of hardware design standards and methodologies.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Participate in hardware architecture design.
  • Develop the block diagram and schematics based on the requirement specification.
  • Develop reference designs and application specific boards
  • Helping the Lab technicians while populating new boards.
  • Thoroughly test the populated PCB before delivering it to the software team.
  • Work with software teams and help in speeding up the board bring up activity.
  • Optimize the BOM as and when required by the engineering team.
  • Review customer schematics and PCB layout.
  • Understand the BOM and optimize the BOM by finding alternates and manage component obsolescence throughout its lifecycle.
  • Black box analysis and perform failure analysis with strong evidential document.

Education and Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's or Masters degree in an engineering discipline (e.g. Computers/Electrical/Electronics/Telecom Engineering or equivalent)
  • Minimum 4 or more years of industry experience in hardware engineering for consumer/automotive/Telecom/Medical industry.

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Hardware Designing, hardware debugging and strong hardware analysis skills.
  • Ability to understand complex circuits and ability to select the right part for the right application.
  • Hands on experience in Tools like Keil/Electronics Workbench/Eagle PCB/Orcad/Protel/Vector-CANoe/Xilinx/Altera Quartus/Mentor Graphics or any other schematics tools.
  • High speed boards design experience.
  • Experience in handling multi layer boards and black box debugging.
  • Experience in managing BOM and maintain the same for internal reference and clarification.
  • Hands on experience in using the tools like CRO, Logic analyzer, Power meter, spectrum analyzer etc.
  • Estimate system power budget and ability to design a battery operated system.
  • Hand on experience in performing board bring up and validation.
  • Experience in Performing system level compliance tests and safety tests like FCC, IC, ETSI and CE is an added advantage.
  • RF and antenna design expertise is an added advantage.
  • Good communication skills.