Sr. Hardware Engineer

Shape the future of smart home technology as a Senior Hardware Systems Engineer on our product team. You’ll help create next-generation connected security solutions that will be installed in millions of homes across North America. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of connected smart locks and IoT access products.

About the role

You will join the Americas Residential Electronics team within ASSA ABLOY, a leading global provider of well-known brands such as Kwikset, Baldwin, Weiser, and Level Lock. Based in Lake Forest, California, with supporting teams in Taiwan, China, and Mexico, our engineers ship products used by millions. The role is hybrid, requiring three days per week in the office, with minimal travel.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware project execution for assigned products or major subsystems.
• Define system-level interfaces, component strategy, and validation plans.
• Mentor hardware engineers and provide technical guidance on design quality.
• Drive complex debugging and root-cause analysis across electro-mechanical systems.
• Lead design and reviews for schematics, layouts, drawings, BOMs, tooling, and test results.
• Manage prototype assemblies, pilot builds, bring-up, and design verification.
• Partner with firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, operations, and supply chain teams.
• Manage technical risks, tradeoffs, change control, and release readiness.
• Improve development, DFM/DFA, validation, and documentation practices.
• Ensure hardware quality, reliability, manufacturability, and compliance readiness.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar.
• 6+ years of progressive hardware or product engineering experience.
• Strong hardware architecture, interface definition, and validation planning experience.
• Proven board-level design, component selection, and electro-mechanical debugging skills.
• Experience with DFM/DFA, FMEA/PFMEA, compliance, reliability, and manufacturing readiness.
• Practical experience with prototype builds, pilot runs, change control, and release documentation.
• Ability to mentor engineers and lead technical execution for hardware projects.
• Solid MCU layout skills, including power and signal analysis.
• Experience with chip-to-chip communication protocols or interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, etc.).
• Ability to debug hardware, including hardware bring-up, debugging RF, logic probing, and voltage measurements.
• Experience with multi-layer PCB layout & schematics (Altium preferred).
• Familiarity with BOMs and vendor component approval.
• Familiarity with issue-tracking software such as Jira, collaboration tools such as Confluence, and version control.
• Organized, able to multitask, and manage multiple projects simultaneously with varying degrees of complexity, priority, and urgency.
• Keen sense of urgency, ownership, and follow-through.
• Effective communicator who is passionate, flexible, collaborative, and able to work independently.
• Excellent documentation practices.

Preferred Skills

• Experience developing low-power, battery-operated consumer devices.
• Experience in mixed RF antenna design and performance.
• Experience in FCC testing and certification.
• Experience with IoT connectivity protocols and interoperability standards, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, Matter, and Aliro.
• Scripting/Python skills supporting production testing and provisioning.

Pay

Pay range: $97,000–$152,000. This range is a reasonable estimate at the time of posting and may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements, and geographic location.

Schedule

Hybrid work schedule requiring three days per week in the office.