Hardware Engineer

Location : San Francisco — Alabama St.

Experience : Minimum 10+ years hands-on

Work Mode : 4 Days Onsite in Office (minimum)

Responsibilities

Work cross functionally with business and product teams, while designing the electronic systems in Gradient’s product roadmap.

Lead product system requirement generation, architectural design, detailed design, layout, testing, and evaluation of mechanical and electro-mechanical devices, and controls to meet regulatory, safety, quality standards.

Building on existing schematics, part lists, and engineering requirements.

Defining function, configuration, and arrangement for circuit boards and system wiring and driving component selection to meet BOM cost targets.

Prototyping and testing electronic designs.

Performing schematic capture and PCB layout for analog and digital, and power circuit boards through fabrication and assembly drawings generation.

Run cross functional design reviews to evaluate electronics including circuit boards within Gradient’s products.

Establish and implement best practices around circuit design, board layouts, hardware verification, and electronics design controls.

Interface with and support electronics consultants to meet company objectives.

Evaluate, diagnose, and optimize performance of new electrical designs.

Build electronics supply chain relationships and manage vendors for prototype builds, and interface with the operations team heading into production.

Work with contract manufacturers to design functional circuit test (FCT) and In-Circuit Test (ICT) fixtures.

Mentor and coach early career engineers to expand their technical expertise.

Desired Qualification

Track record of shipping new consumer or industrial electronics products on a tight schedule.

Experience with motor-control systems development.

Experience designing split analog / digital / power electronics.

15+ years developing custom mixed signal electronic systems.

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.

Experience with Design for Manufacturability, Design for Assembly, and Design for Testability.

Experience with ECAD libraries and library configuration management.

Experience managing others, either internal teams or consultants.

Bonus Qualifications

Experience designing systems that incorporate wireless communication SoCs, especially WiFi and BLE.

Proficiency with Altium.

Experience shipping 2 or more consumer products.

Experience with field-oriented control of BLDC motors.

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.

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