Lead Engineer

Job Title: Lead Engineer

Location(s): Tustin, CA - Onsite
Compensation: $115,000- $135,000

About this position:

Our ODM Project Development and Solutions team in Tustin, CA is seeking a Lead Engineer to guide technical projects from concept through completion, mentor junior engineers, and serve as a primary technical resource for customers, sales, and internal teams supporting embedded and network PC hardware and software solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical discussions and provide technical support to customers, sales personnel, and internal teams on embedded and network PC hardware and software solutions.
• Assess customers' high-level technical requirements, design solutions, test systems, and support installation and deployment of embedded PC hardware and software environments.
• Develop hardware and software demonstration prototypes to support sales and marketing initiatives, including rapid prototyping and system integration.
• Lead technical teams and mentor junior engineers by providing technical guidance and best-practice recommendations.
• Support business development and sales through pre- and post-sales technical assessments, feasibility testing, technical responses to customer bids, RMA verification, and technical training.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues during validation of computer-based products.
• Manage technical projects from concept through completion while coordinating with cross-functional teams.
• Participate in trade shows, customer visits, and other business activities and travel periodically as required.
• Ability and willingness to travel periodically for customer visits, trade shows, technical training, installations, and other business needs.
• The role may occasionally require lifting and carrying equipment and periods of sitting, standing, walking, or working at customer and trade-show locations, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering field
• 7+ years of experience in PC hardware engineering, design, installation, troubleshooting, or a related technical field, including experience leading technical projects or teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams or projects, combined with hands-on technical experience.
• Strong testing, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize and organize work across multiple projects while meeting established deadlines.
• Experience managing technical projects from concept through completion.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical information to customers, sales teams, engineers, and other cross-functional stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing system architecture and interfaces, including electrical circuit design.
• Experience with or familiarity with concept-to-proposal and New Product Introduction (NPI) processes.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems and related applications.
• Experience supporting customer-facing technical projects or pre- and post-sales engineering activities.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary dependent on experience (DOE)
• Winning culture with a friendly, team-oriented environment!
• Generous benefits package including medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) with company match
• Education & personal development reimbursement program
• Generous vacation and paid holidays package
• Company events, and lunches
• Work from home program - once eligible
• Referral Bonus

About Advantech

Founded in 1983, Advantech is a leader in providing trusted innovative embedded and automation products and solutions. Advantech offers comprehensive system integration, hardware, software, customer-centric design services, and global logistics support; all backed by industry-leading front and back-office e-business solutions. Advantech has always been an innovator in the development and manufacture of high-quality, high-performance computing platforms.

We cooperate closely with our partners to help provide complete solutions for a wide array of applications across a diverse range of industries. To realize our corporate vision of Enabling an Intelligent Planet, Advantech will continue collaborating and partnering for Smart city & IoT Solutions.

World-class Recognition

Advantech is an authorized alliance partner of both Intel and Microsoft . Our customers will find the technologies we use inside our products to be widely compatible with other products in the global marketplace. In 2018 and 2019, Interbrand, the world-renowned brand consulting firm, once again recognized Advantech efforts to build a trusted, global brand; it also symbolizes a promise we gave to our business partners, which was to do our best to keep building a trustworthy brand that is recognized everywhere in the world. Advantech was selected as Interbrand's #5 best Taiwan Global Brand in 2018.

Work Authorization:

U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. More information can be found at _laws/itar.html

Advantech is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We accept applications directly from candidates only and will not be responsible for any recruiting agency fees absent a formal agreement.