HARDWARE ENGINEER

SKILL SET AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Hardware engineers must be fluent in the following:

1. Altium Designer
2. SPICE
3. MS Office – Excel, Visio, Word, etc.

Hardware engineers must be familiar with the following:

1. Autodesk Inventor
2. Ansys Electronics Desktop
3. Enovia PLM
4. Git (version control concepts and workflow)
5. Azure DevOps

Responsibilities of hardware engineer:

Schematic Design –

• Support the creation of printed circuit boards by creating logical drawings of interconnected electronic components by: Select components
• Planning and implementation of analog and digital circuits
• Creation of component entries and assist in curation of the ECAD library (device symbols, footprints, models, and attributes)
• Conducting analysis, simulation, and calculations of electronic and electrical circuits

Layout Design

• Support the creation of printed circuit boards by converting schematic diagrams into physically routed paths by: Creating and updating component footprints/land patterns in the ECAD design library
• Determining the optimal placement of components and PCB features for EMC/EMI performance, power integrity, signal integrity, thermal management, mechanical shock and vibration, manufacturing, assembly, and test processes
• Ensuring electronic components are compatible with and can be integrated with the mechanical product design
• Conducting analysis, simulation, and calculations for power integrity, signal integrity, thermal characteristics, and EMC

Hardware Test Engineering - Verification of electronic hardware through the following activities:

• Assisting in ensuring the hardware design satisfies the product functional requirements, performance characteristics identified in the high-level design, detail design specification, and technical documentation
• Designing, planning, or setting requirements for necessary test equipment and/or test software
• Hardware module testing and verification including parametric, functional, EMC/EMI, environmental, or other engineering evaluation testing
• Authors and maintains the Electronic Test Specification documents

Drafting, Documentation, and Sustainment - Assist in the release and versioning of technical documentation

• Prepare schematic, fabrication, assembly, BOM packages for release in PLM system
• Contribute to and participate in reviews of reports, documentation and designs
• Assist in component lifecycle activities
• Assist in hardware drawing updates