Embedded Hardware Engineer

About the role

Stratos, Inc. is the creator of the Stratos Bluetooth Connected Card™ Platform that combines plastic cards into a single, smart, dynamic card. Credit, debit, loyalty, membership and gift cards can be loaded into one mobile-connected card, empowering people to make better, more informed payment decisions while simplifying transactions through a familiar, reliable form. Stratos allows merchants and card issuers to strengthen brand loyalty with better data and improved communications to card users without infrastructure change.

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of the hardware platform for a new payment technology, including MCU, FPGA, Bluetooth Smart, touch sensors, encryption, security, extreme low power, etc.
• Collaboration with firmware engineers on design, self-test, and implementation.
• Collaboration with manufacturing and mechanical engineers on design for test, design for manufacturing, failure analysis, support for manufacturing testing, and yield improvements.
• Design of programming and manufacturing jigs for uncommon form factors.
• Support and review of 3rd party design projects.
• Root cause analysis for initial design and for issues found in manufacturing.
• Occasional international travel.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar degree or equivalent experience.
• 3 years of relevant industry or personal experience.
• Experience in generation of design specification documentation, schematic capture, and circuit analysis.
• Experience with verification, test, and quality assurance of deliverables against specifications and requirements.
• Experience with board bring-up and programming and debugging microcontroller-based systems.
• Experience with debugging tools like bus analyzers and oscilloscopes.
• Knowledge of flexible electronics design.
• PCB layout and design.
• SPICE analysis.

Skills

• Proficiency with Altium Designer.

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States | Full-time