Design Engineer- Embedded Hardware

You’ll be our: Senior Design Engineer – Embedded Hardware

You’ll be based at: IBC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru

You’ll be Aligned with: Manager- Embedded Hardware

You’ll be a member of: Hardware and System Engineering Team

 

What you’ll do at Ather:

You will be working as a Senior member of the embedded design team. You are expected to have an intensive hands-on experience of designing microcontroller/SoC based systems interfacing with displays, radios, sensors and actuators. You will also provide guidance to other engineers in the team with the best industry practices, new topologies, processes, design optimization etc.

You are expected to have completed at least 5-6 successful project life cycles of new embedded board development projects in your career. This experience should help you conduct design reviews for the teams and provide valuable technical feedback.

Automotive Experience is a plus.

Design electronic systems in order to meet product and subsystem specifications.
Perform simulations and design calculations to validate the correctness of the design across operating conditions and process variations (Tolerance Analysis, Monte Carlo).
Work with the SW and FW team in understanding how HW, SW and FW will interact and design accordingly.
Be able to derive internal engineering requirements from higher level requirements.
Design schematic with CAD tools (Allegro/Eagle/Orcad etc).
Collaborate with PCB engineers in layout development and review.
Design of experiments for investigating issues and finding the way forward. Use structured reasoning (Fishbone, 8D etc) to RCA issues. Implement CAPA.
Participate in AFMEA, own DFMEA, and collaborate with the manufacturing team for PFMEA. Assist manufacturing team in all engg aspects of manufacturing. Understand and adopt DFM, DFA.
Collaborate with the HW packaging team in understanding the physical boundaries and making necessary adjustments.
Understand embedded system testing methods, and collaborate with the testing team.
Maximize reuse of platforms and design resources to help reduce TTM, cost, and to enhance quality; implement lessons learnt into designs.
Participate in supplier discussions and benchmarking activities.
Participate in regulatory tests such as UL, ARAI, BIS, IEC standards for electrical/electronic assemblies.
Be comfortable in a challenging, fast moving environment
Here’s what we are looking for (Must Have):

Electric circuit design and analysis (Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors, Diodes, FETs, BJTs, Opamps)
Microcontroller/Microprocessor/DSP Architecture – Registers, Bus, PWM, DMA, ADC, DAC, Timers
Microcontroller/Microprocessor/DSP Chip Selection (E)
Electrolytic and Ceramic Capacitors, NTC, PTC, Relays, Contactors, MOV, GDT
LDO, Voltage Regulators, HF Magnetics, Amplifiers, Comparators, PMIC, Protocol converters/Drivers
JTAG Debug/Programming
Hardware and firmware debugging
Debug & Troubleshooting of Embedded HW Systems/Boards
Thermal Testing, Safety & Regulatory Pre-Compliance Testing
Rework and soldering of SMD and thru-hole Devices on PCBAs.
DFMEA
AFMEA, PFMEA
DFM, DFA, DFC, DFR, DFS
Memory – NOR, NAND, SRAM, DRAM
RS232, RS485, SPI, UART, Ethernet, USB, CAN Communication Protocols
PCB Layout Design, Signal Integrity Analysis
Beneficial to have experience on:

Motors and actuators, Sensors and measurements
WI-FI, BT Wireless Protocols
Wireless Standards and Organizations
Internal/external antenna design and system level integration
Application Development using Commercial IoT/GSM/GPS Modules/Devices
Antenna theory
Sensitivity Analysis
RF tuning and testing
Switch debouncing, Multiplexers, Demultiplexers, Encoders, Decoders, etc Microcontroller
Configuration design
C/C++/Embedded C/Assembly Language (ARM/x86) Programming, Application Programming
Interfaces (APIs) (A)
Antenna S-parameter, pattern & LTE/GPS Spectrum measurement & EIRP testing
Technical Risk Management
EMI/EMC
ISO9001-15/QS9000 Quality Systems
UL/VDE/IEC/BIS/CCC Safety standards
IEC/EN Regulatory Standards for LTE, GPS, EMI/EMC
Six Sigma
ESD Compliance standards, Component and PCBA Handling
PMP/Agile Methodology
MIL217F/BELLCORE Reliability Standards
Thermal Analysis
Environmental Standards
Tools/Methods:

PSIM (A), MATLAB (B), MathCAD (F), ORCAD (A), Allegro (A), Hyperlynx (F),
SOLIDWORKS (F), MiniTAB (F), Crystall Ball (F), Pugh Matrix (A), Regression Analysis (A),
DoE (A), C/C++/Embedded C (B)
DSO (A), DMM (A), Datalogger (A), Electronic Load (A), LabView (B), Thermal Chamber (B),
Power Supplies (A), Function Generator (A), Logic Analyzer (A), Spectrum analyser (A),
Network Analyser (A), Power meter (A)
Editor (B), assembler (B), cross assembler (B), Debugger (A) and Integrated Development
Environment (IDE) (A), ICE (In-Circuit-Emulators) (A)
What You bring to Ather:

B.Tech/M.Tech with specialization in electrical/electronics engineering with thorough experience in embedded systems design.
Keen interest in Technology and drive to succeed in a dynamic environment
Ability to analyze problems in a very fundamental manner and solve them through rigorous engineering.
8-10 years of experience in design and development of embedded systems