Principal Hardware Design Engineer

Title: Hardware Design Engineer

Location: Carrollton, TX

Salary: $160k (flexible)

Principal Hardware Design Engineer

Our client has an exciting and important opportunity for the right person to join our Advanced Building Systems engineering and product development team to design and commercialize our own unique, purpose-built HVAC systems as a Senior or Principal Hardware Design Engineer. This is a hands-on, highly visible opportunity in a rapidly growing and evolving company with lots of room to grow! We are seeking a person with at least 10 years demonstrated experience architecting, designing, prototyping, and supporting the product validation and manufacturing of complex ARM-based controllers, lower-performance embedded devices, wireless connectivity, and devices.

Major Areas of Responsibility:

• Specify, design, innovate, and execute designs of a wide-range of complex microprocessor-controlled devices using ARM, embedded and other microprocessor technologies
• Hands on execution of system architecture, including silicon evaluation, design and configuration, detailed product design, embedded SW/FW integration, antenna placement, and others
• Research, recommend and select components for various subsystems, including

Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, RF, memory, batteries, power, sensor and others

• Evaluate, review and critique PCB designs from internal and external resources
• Prototype, test and debug designs as they progress through the design phases
• Global collaboration with internal teams, including systems engineering, architecture, product planners, developers, product assurance, quality, and manufacturing organizations to successfully move products thru the development cycle and into the market.
• Architect manufacturing tests for the designs, including BFT, ORT and others as required
• Lead hardware certification for the products – FCC, ISO, and others as applicable

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Education and Experience:

• 10 years (Senior) or 15+ years (Principal) of demonstrable experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering required, Master’s degree preferred
• Broad knowledge and design experience developing products and system solutions for BLE, Z-Wave, Thread, Wi-Fi, power management, sensor control, USB, UART, I2C, and various bus communication technologies.
• Must have current design experience with current microprocessor devices and technologies including ARM SOCs, various microcontroller, flash, and memory.
• Experience with components from STM, TI, Infineon, Renesas, Micron, MediaTek, and others
• Familiarity with the TI Sitara family and the SiLabs Blue Gecko family of processors is desirable
• Demonstrated familiarity and use of current of electronics design and simulation tool suites
• Ability to develop, configure, integrate and validate complex system and embedded

SW/FW protocol and configuration stacks

• Experience using internal and external 3rd party NRTL’s to achieve complex regulatory and environmental certification requirements
• Experience ensuring designs are created and reviewed with DFx as a core criterion, including manufacturability, testability, safety, quality, cost and others