Lead Hardware Engineer - Research & Development Engineering

What you’ll do:

EIIC has an opening for an Lead Hardware Engineer position who is passionate about his/her trade, to join our team in leading the design, development and testing of Hardware projects for Datacenter products in Electrical Domain. This position is part of the  New Product Introduction development team in DIT Datacenter Group in EIIC. The Lead Engineer is responsible for the development of  power conversion and distribution products in Powerrack and Compute Rack from initial proposal through production launch for the Datacenter market.  This role is responsible for leading large scale global platform engineering activities across the functions of electrical, mechanical, and embedded software engineering to develop Datacenter power conversion products. 

• Technical lead for global platform new product development projects, accountable for meeting schedule, cost and product performance goals.
• Creates work breakdown schedules, test plans, and sets milestone priorities for cross functional development team.
• Supports Engineering Management and Program Management in making tactical engineering decisions, setting program schedule, cost targets, and product specifications.
• Conceptualizes and evaluates high level system architectural considerations involving electrical, software, and mechanical cross-disciplinary principles to meet product development requirements factoring in performance, cost, and schedule.
• Champions innovative solutions in semiconductor device, power electronics topology, magnetics, thermal, and digital controls functions.
• Demonstrates creativity and innovation leadership; is able to create and productize new and unique ideas.
• Demonstrates process management capability and determines necessary processes to accomplish goals.
• Creates, maintains, and reviews product development requirement specifications including product management and customer requirements.
• Writes and maintains functional specifications of design solutions.
• Accurately analyzes, simulates, and reviews power electronics, analog, logical, and digital circuits, including transient analysis and state machine change analysis.
• Keeps track of latest power electronics, embedded software and controls strategies and shares knowledge across organization.
• Encourages teamwork amongst team members and works jointly and independently with members of the Datacenter Engineering team

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in engineering in Electronics/Electrical
• 10-13 years

Skills:

1. Strong experience in power electronic, power converter topologies (AC/DC, DC/DC) and magnetics design. Hands on experience in high speed digital circuits involving microcontrollers, memory peripherals and wireless communication modules. 
2. Sound experience in  analyzing, troubleshooting and programming microcontrollers based design circuits.
3. Hands on experience in developing schematics and reviewing and approving board layouts.
3. Testing and Troubleshooting new design issues to root cause.
4. Strong experience in  using common tools and methods to work in high power lab environment including: oscilloscope, power analyzers and meters
5. Strong knowledge of EMI / EMC certification and environmental compliances – UL /IEC / RoHS / REACH etc.
6. Sound experience on simulation tools like PSpice, LTSpice, Matlab, etc.
7. Experience with printed circuit board layout design involving tools like Altium and Allegro.
8.Prefered knowledge on designing production testers and simulators.
10.Self-starter with the ability to operate effectively with minimal supervision
Desired :
Knowledge of Datacenter architecture, control and communication boards
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, Problem solving skills, Working in ambiguity, process management