Electrical Engineer II

Responsibilities

• Develop Schematics and bill of materials (BOM) to meet the design requirements.
• Create motherboard floorplan and layout in collaboration with teams including the Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, and Thermal teams.
• Design, build, and test rapid prototypes for evaluation of new product ideas or technology concepts.
• Create design documentation, develop schematics, board layout to meet system design requirements.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to optimize the overall system of the product from concept to completion.
• Use simulation and lab measurement data to support design troubleshooting and propose corrective actions, drive failure analysis, root cause analysis, and design of experiments to resolve issues.
• Work with suppliers, contractors, and engineering services to ensure that the product is developed on time with high quality.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
    
• Foundational understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals, and working with printed circuit board (PCB) materials, flex design and PCB and flexible printed circuit (FPC) manufacturing processes.
• Proven experience problem solving and debugging with a solid understanding of core engineering principles, and fundamental circuit design and analytical techniques.

• 4+ years of experience designing, implementing, and shipping high volume consumer electronics products of medium to high complexity.
• Familiar with system level SI/PI simulation, and correlation to solve system design issues.
• Familiar with High-speed interface protocol, electrical measurement equipment such as VNA, TDR, Bert, Scope.
  
• Experience preferred with x86 PC and or ARM architectures and implementation of high speed serial busses (PCIe, DP, USB4, Thunderbolt, MIPI) and high speed parallel busses such as: memory bus (DDR4/5, etc.).
• Hands-on design experience in analog/ digital electronics ranging from: RF, analog, digital, audio, video, power, electromechanical, low power, charging, touch display, and sensors.
• Experience communicating technical concepts clearly in both verbal and written forms.

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