Contract Hardware Engineer Mid.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyze customer requirements and validate them by analysis/modeling/prototyping or based on previous product performance
• Create and maintain hardware requirements specification and hardware interface control documents
• Performs SPICE analysis of circuits using Altium/OrCAD PSPICE tools
• Performs analysis and MATLAB/Simulink modeling to generate control algorithms
• Analyze and designs magnetics for EMI filter, boost/buck inductors and other input/output filters
• Performs component selection & obsolescence management
• Circuit design and schematic capture using Altium/OrCAD tools
• Creates hardware design document that covers design analysis, notes, and specific guidelines followed
• Provides inputs to PCB layout design
• Performs worst case load analysis (DC Load Analysis) on the circuit designs
• Performs component derating and thermal analysis
• Performance design performance margin analysis
• Performs PCB board bring-up per the circuit design
• Creates PCB board level functional test procedures per circuit functional blocks
• Creates design verification test procedure (DVTP) document
• Performs electronics hardware testing to make sure that requirements are met and generate test reports (DVTR)
• Independently finds or creates solutions to problems requiring research, resourcefulness and creativity

Qualifications

• Understands, follows, and promotes, ZWWS policies and procedures
• Reviews and processes engineering changes in the development of water and waste systems and equipment
• Reviews, processes, and recommends engineering changes in the development of W&W equipment
• Utilizes sound technical problem solving to own or support ongoing and new products
• Follows sound engineering principles to ensure designs meet airworthiness standards, customer requirements and ZWWS internal standards
• Performs research and/or testing for new development
• Presents technical findings and trade studies
• Affirms and supports standard work and leads or support improvement projects (group or company level)
• Interfaces with various groups (internal and external) to support new business and bring projects to completion