Principal Electrical Engineer

Job Description

• Collaborate with the cross-functional team to define, guide, and own aspects of system architecture product definition.

• Analyze key system trade-offs and proposing solutions including but not limited to, design of high performance / low power / high-quality products, guiding electrical and mechanical layouts and feature integration feasibility.

• Own high-speed board-level electrical designs which include schematic capture, layout, power budgeting, navigating signal / power integrity, EMC, and RF challenges.

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to develop system validation, which includes testing of, Thermal, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Acoustic, Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, and Stress testing.

• Responsible for defining board-level hardware bring-up plan and execution
• Responsible for defining manufacturing test plan at board and system level. Work closely with 3rd party test fixture vendors to define, develop and validate test fixtures for manufacturing tests.
• Collaborate with Mechanical and Optical team to ensure designs meet Mechanical keep outs, height restrictions and Camera Module related I/O requirements
• Work with Embedded Firmware and Application Software team on hardware design reviews and debugging issues

Job Requirements

• Bachelors degree (masters preferred) in Electrical Engineering with 10+ years of experience in electrical hardware development

• Proven track record on developing consumer products from prototype to mass production

• Must have hands-on experience designing boards with Application Processors from Qualcomm, MediaTek or NXP.

• Extensive experience designing high-speed boards involving MIPI D-PHY/C-PHY, USB 3.1 Gen 1 / Gen 2, Display Port, Sensors, PCIe Gen 3/4, RF (802.11 and Bluetooth), HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet, LPDDR 4x/5x, eMMC, UFS, I2S, I2C, and SPI

• Ability to work with 3rd party vendors to guide layout requirements, pre-layout and post-layout Signal Integrity and Power Deliver simulations

• Has worked with audio / video devices including microphones, speakers, and CMOS imaging sensors

• Design experience that meets compliance requirements such as EMC, ESD, Safety, RF and Environmental

• Must have hands-on experience with Electrical Schematic Capture and Layout software such as Altium, OrCAD and Allegro and interactions between EE and ME tools and ERP systems like Arena

• Must have created and influenced system specification documents for electrical, power delivery, thermal and physical fit requirements

• Experience working with offshore OEM, ODM and JDM including manufacturing and assembly processes

• Experience working in a fast-paced engineering environment utilizing real time crisis management skills

• Strong analytical skills using data-driven decisions, back up assumptions, and develop scale of expectations.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration, written and verbal communication, and presentation communication skills

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally if needed