Hardware Staff Engineer

• Lead the design and development of embedded electronic hardware for monitoring, protection, recording, and industrial instrumentation products.
• Translate system and product requirements into robust hardware designs meeting performance, reliability, regulatory, manufacturing, and cost objectives.
• Design, analyse, and review analogue, mixed-signal, digital, power, and communications circuitry for mission-critical industrial applications.
• Collaborate with Architects, Firmware, Software, Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Test teams to deliver integrated product solutions.
• Drive technical investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for complex design, manufacturing, qualification, and field issues.
• Perform technical trade-off analysis involving performance, accuracy, reliability, maintainability, manufacturability, lifecycle cost, and customer requirements.
• Lead schematic design, component selection, circuit simulation, design verification, laboratory evaluation, and PCB design reviews.
• Support architecture implementation and system-level design decisions.
• Lead and contribute to technical design reviews, engineering governance activities, and development best practices.
• Define and execute hardware verification, validation, qualification, and compliance testing.
• Support New Product Introduction, sustaining engineering, product enhancements, value engineering, and component obsolescence management.
• Identify technical risks, develop mitigation plans, and provide leadership during complex technical challenges.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence through coaching, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple projects and product development activities.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps and innovation initiatives.
• Champion product quality, reliability, manufacturability, maintainability, and customer value throughout the product lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience developing embedded electronic hardware products, including significant experience delivering complex designs from concept through production and lifecycle support.
• Proven experience designing mixed-signal, analogue, digital, and embedded electronic systems.
• Strong understanding of electronic design fundamentals, including signal integrity, power integrity, EMC, thermal management, reliability, and industrial product design.
• Experience developing hardware platforms incorporating embedded processors, communication interfaces, data acquisition systems, sensing technologies, and industrial networking.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical investigations and make sound engineering decisions within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience supporting product verification, validation, regulatory compliance, and production release processes.
• Strong communication, collaboration, technical leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers without direct line management responsibility.
• Preferred: Experience designing ARM-based embedded systems, Linux-based platforms, real-time systems, and FPGA-based solutions.
• Preferred: Experience with power system monitoring, protection, fault recording, power quality, condition monitoring, or substation automation products.
• Preferred: Knowledge of IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, IEC 60870-5-104, and other industrial communication protocols.
• Preferred: Experience with precision timing technologies including GPS, GNSS, IRIG-B, IEEE 1588 PTP, and NTP.
• Preferred: Experience designing precision sensing, signal conditioning, and measurement systems.
• Preferred: Familiarity with cybersecurity principles applicable to embedded products and critical infrastructure environments.
• Preferred: Experience with EMC compliance, electrical safety standards, environmental qualification, CE, UL, IEC, and IEEE requirements.
• Preferred: Understanding of Design for Manufacture (DFM), Design for Test (DFT), Design for Serviceability (DFS), and reliability engineering principles.
• Preferred: Experience supporting supply chain activities including component lifecycle management, alternative component qualification, and obsolescence mitigation.
• Preferred: Familiarity with simulation, modelling, test automation, and hardware validation methodologies.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and developing embedded electronic hardware, with a strong focus on mixed-signal, analogue, and digital systems. Proven ability to lead technical investigations, mentor engineers, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards throughout the product lifecycle.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Embedded Electronic Hardware Development
• Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
• Regulatory Compliance Testing
• Technical Leadership
• Product Verification and Validation

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Analogue Circuit Design
• Digital Circuit Design
• Power System Design
• Signal Integrity Analysis
• Circuit Simulation
• PCB Design
• Embedded System Development
• Data Acquisition Systems
• Communication Interfaces
• Reliability Engineering

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Technical Leadership
• Stakeholder Management
• Mentoring
• Communication

Industry Keywords

• IEC 61850
• DNP3
• Modbus
• EMC Compliance
• Electrical Safety Standards
• Design for Manufacture
• Design for Test
• Design for Serviceability
• GPS Technologies
• NTP

Tools & Technologies

• ARM-Based Systems
• Linux-Based Platforms
• FPGA Solutions
• Simulation Tools
• Test Automation Tools