About the job
Location: Dallas, TX (onsite with flexible working hours)
Industry: IoT/connected hardware technology company
Position Type: Full-Time / Direct Hire
Company Size: Midsize Company
Target Salary: Up to $150,000 Base Salary + Benefits
About Our Client
We are working with a growing technology company in Dallas that is looking for a hands-on Electrical / Hardware Product Development Engineer to help develop, improve and support real-world hardware products deployed in demanding outdoor environments.
This is not a traditional building electrical, utility, PLC or highly specialized PCB design role. The company is looking for someone broad and hands-on who enjoys owning physical products end-to-end and is comfortable working across troubleshooting, power systems, components, product development, testing and field reliability.
What you will work on
- Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis on customer-returned hardware and failed PCB assemblies
- Use hands-on test equipment to diagnose electrical and hardware failures
- Support power architecture and product redesigns involving systems in the hundreds-of-watts range
- Help improve products for higher-power applications
- Evaluate components, power supplies and alternative parts for performance, reliability, cost and availability
- Work with electrical and mechanical components inside rugged outdoor products
- Support enclosure and product-development work, including CAD, prototyping, 3D printing and eventual injection-molded designs
- Improve how products are assembled, mounted and manufactured
- Review existing designs and identify ways to improve reliability, manufacturability, cost and serviceability
- Support field failures and occasionally help diagnose issues at deployed customer locations
- Work closely with a small hardware team across electrical, mechanical, embedded and manufacturing challenges
What we are looking for
- Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering or similar technical background, 4+ years of expereince
- Hands-on experience working with physical electronic products
- Experience troubleshooting hardware and performing root cause analysis
- Comfortable probing boards and using tools such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers or similar equipment
- Experience with power supplies, power distribution or power electronics
- Exposure to PCB schematics and board-level hardware
- Product development or sustaining engineering experience is highly relevant
- Experience with ruggedized, outdoor or harsh-environment products is strongly preferred
- Exposure to CAD, enclosures, mechanical integration or product packaging is valuable
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of loosely defined engineering problems
- Comfortable in a small, fast-moving environment where engineers own products from development through field support
Work Style: You are the type of engineer who can be handed a failed customer unit with very little information, break the problem down, determine what failed and why, and drive the fix through to a better product.
You are also comfortable looking beyond the immediate task and thinking about the whole product, including reliability, assembly, power, component choices, manufacturability and cost.
Benefits & Culture:
- Base salary up to $150,000 (depending on experience).
- Comprehensive healthcare, dental, and vision coverage, plus 401(k) matching.
- A highly collaborative, in-person engineering culture where your work directly protects lives, assets, and operations nationwide.
