Principal Hardware Design Engineer

About the role

Our world class Hardware Engineering Team in New Brighton is at the forefront of Pepperl+Fuchs’ Industrial Gateway Technologies (IGT) initiative. Our products drive enhancements in factory automation that were simply not possible a few short years ago and enable data communication solutions connecting the plant floor to the C-Suite.

Responsibilities

• Be a key team member in specifying, designing and developing exciting electronic hardware systems that run embedded OS and applications for standard and industrial Ethernet to process and transfer factory automation I/O data.
• Circuit design
• Develop hardware that are robust and EMC sound.
• Schematic capture, constraints development and programming.
• PCB Layout design constraints, guidance and review.
• Lead debugging and testing of prototype boards.
• Analyze and resolve issues found in design verification test (DVT), EMC and environmental testing.
• Research and create innovative product HW architecture with performance microcontroller, memory, interface IC.
• Lead Product feasibility studies including PCB component area placement and circuit implementation and routing studies.
• Collaborate with software engineering and industrial / manufacturing engineering and product management to develop hardware solutions.
• Create HW/SW interface and specifications documents.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 7 years of experience of embedded system design including circuit design and prototype bring-up and debugging.
• Experience with processor architecture, digital circuit design, and various communications protocols.
• Experience leading and driving design development from schematic capture, PCB layout through fabrication and assembly.
• Experience developing robust designs for EMC and industrial operating temperature range.
• Good understanding of manufacturing process including DFM.
• Ability to manage a complex set of objectives and team goals in a fast-paced R&D environment.
• Proven experience in bringing up prototype board and debug/troubleshoot circuits and designs.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k
• Voluntary life Insurance
• Employer paid basic life insurance
• short-term disability
• long-term disability
• PTO

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.