Engineer I Electrical & Electronics Engineering IX
About the role
This person will provide technical expertise and leadership in the development of printed circuit boards and assemblies that will be integrated throughout the Vertiv Global portfolio of thermal products. Working closely with the Controls firmware development team, this position will support the specification generation, electrical/board design, CM support, testing, and integration support aspects of bringing their designs to life in high-scale production environments.
Responsibilities
- Write specifications for Printed Wiring Boards (PWB) to meet top level requirements of the Thermal Product Offering group.
- Define additional requirements and specifications that are not directly in the top-level requirements that are important to the design.
- Create system level architectures for distributed microprocessor-based sensors and controls.
- Create hardware test plans for design verification and factory verification of PWB.
- Create requirements documents to enable factory test verification of PWB.
- Manages vendors in creating factory test verification equipment and deploys equipment to contract manufacturers.
- Evaluates EMC risk in PWB and mitigates risk in designs.
- Troubleshoot causes of EMC test failures and implement changes to correct any issues.
- Recommends requirements in future designs to prevent warranty issues.
- Able to find, recommend, and test alternate parts.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent with strong emphasis on electrical circuit design: Electrical Engineering
- 2-5 years' related experience
- Knowledge and experience with CAN, 485, 232, SPI, I2C, USB and Ethernet communication interfaces required.
- Knowledge and experience with microprocessor architecture, USB, RGMII/RMII and DDRx interfaces.
- Knowledge and experience with microcontrollers in sensors.
- Knowledge and experience with analog interfaces to devices and sensors for control and sensing.
- Experience in schematic capture and PCB layout, preferably in Mentor Graphics.
- Ability to create schematics from requirements and guide PCB designers in layout.
- Ability to diagnose warranty issues and correct design to reduce field failures.
- Experience in part selection and creation of part records in manufacturing database.
- Experience with creating bills of materials, drawing records and change orders to provide documentation for production to create an PWA.
- Experience with electronics contract manufactures implementing production of PWA in new/existing product lines.
- Experience with correcting design for manufacturing (DFM) issues on PWA.
- Exposure to C, Python, Bash, LabView, and Linux is preferred.
- Exposure to HVAC principles and systems is preferred.
- Experience with HVAC principles a plus.
Qualifications
Fluency in English
Benefits
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