Electronic Hardware Engineer

Job Description

A Hardware Engineer designs, develops, and tests computer hardware, including components like processors, memory, and circuit boards. They ensure hardware functions correctly with software, often collaborating with software engineers and other teams. Key responsibilities include designing new hardware, creating schematics, testing prototypes, and overseeing manufacturing.

Electronic Hardware Engineer

Work for a company that’s developing products key to better managing our power grid and resources. They’re experiencing steady growth due to revolutionary changes in the market, with more and more communities turning to intelligent systems to manage their utilities.

Company Information

• The company has the innovation and flexibility of a startup, though they’re an established, profitable company with a growing customer base.
• Engineering-centric organization where you’ll have the support and resources you need to get the job done.
• Organized so every engineer can make a bottom-line impact on the products and business.
• Developing products and systems that will function for decades as the groudwork that makes the smart grid a reality for a sustainable future.

They Value and Appreciate Their Employees
The team structures projects so your input makes a real difference in the direction of projects. They offer a mix of stability and challenge in their projects, and you'll have real ownership over the hardware design.

Your Role with the Company

In this position, you’ll develop board-level hardware for intelligent, solid-state electricity meters, which are critical to our energy future. You'll be responsible for all phases of embedded hardware design including technical analysis of product requirements, recommendation of design alternatives, functional specifications, schematic design, PCB layout, hardware debug, hardware verification testing, and release to manufacturing. You'll be responsible for developing their next generation product, which will break new ground in the power technology space.

Qualifications

• Expertise in full life-cycle development of analog and digital electronic hardware, including schematic capture, board layout, testing, and release into production.
• It's critical you have solid analog skills, with the ability to grow in your knowledge of power supplies, conversion, magnetic design, etc.
• 5+ years of experience in full life-cycle electronic hardware development (at the board-level). You must be able to take requirements and develop new hardware from them.
• Exposure to EMI/RFI conformance, along with design for manufacturing (DFM) and cost effectiveness concepts.
• Working knowledge of laboratory instruments and equipment.
• BSEE (MSEE a plus)

Why is This a Great Opportunity

The group is in a prime location in South Carolina, where you have urban, suburban, rural, and college town living options. It also gets high ratings for cost-of-living, schools, and overall quality of life. The Atlanta area is also within driving distance.