Senior Hardware Engineer, OPD Hardware

Key job responsibilities

• Engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products.
• Work closely with internal inter-disciplinary teams and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution, and test.
• Be responsive, flexible, and capable of succeeding within an open collaborative peer environment.
• Integrate various core features of the product such as mics, speakers, display, cameras, and sensors, improving overall system quality.
• Work with software/product design engineers to optimize product performance.
• Debug tough systemic problems.
• Support engineering builds, gaining experience with high volume manufacturing.

Basic Qualifications

• MSEE with at least 7 years of experience or BSEE with at least 10 years of experience in consumer product design.
• At least 4 years of experience of leading and working with ODM/OEMs for all stages of product development.
• At least 7 years of experience with system-level design including circuit design, system bring-up, integration, and debug.
• Complex system design experience, including SoC, high-speed bus topologies (DDR, eMMC, MIPI, etc) and/OR high speed design principles.
• Knowledge of low-power circuit design, DC/DC converters, power management methods, audio circuit design, and analog design.
• Knowledge of processor architecture, digital circuit design and various communications protocols such as I2C, UART, SPI, USB, MIPI, I2S, etc.
• Experience developing robust designs for ESD/EMI immunities and RF de-sensitization.
• Experience integrating RF technologies such as WIFI, BT, GPS, etc.
• Experience leading and driving design development from schematic capture, PCB layout through assembly.
• Experience partnering with software teams to define and implement firmware, drivers and algorithms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills and capability to manage and drive various cross-functional team members.
• Understanding of high speed design and noise suppression techniques.
• Hands on experience with signal integrity tools is a plus.
• Experience in designing products for wireless networks (GSM, UMTS, LTE), GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth wireless systems.
• Strong communication and documentation skills and ability to operate autonomously.
• Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production.