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ForterraForterraClarksburg, MD

Senior Electrical Engineer - Design

Hands-on Senior Electrical Engineer designing high-reliability hardware for autonomous military and commercial vehicles. Focus on PCB/CCA design with SoCs, high-speed interfaces, power systems, and cross-functional collaboration.

120k – 160k
Hybrid6+ YOEHardware Engineering

About the role

What you'll do

Design

  • Design high-reliability & high-safety criticality hardware for both commercial and military autonomous vehicles.
  • Generate design documentation for design maintainability, such as stress analysis, power budgets, firmware/hardware interfaces, SI and PI analysis, component and design trades.
  • Provide technical leadership on projects to guide a small, focused team of electrical engineers to develop new hardware designs from concept through production.

Validation

  • Suggest and perform prototyping testing for risk-reduction of circuits at the component, subsystem, and system levels.
  • Perform validation testing of designs through analysis, simulation, and hardware testing.
  • Conduct hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation testing at board and subsystem levels. Maintain design verification test matrix.

Collaboration

  • Participate in interdisciplinary design teams and design reviews.
  • Work cross functionally with systems, safety, software, test, other engineering groups and procurement throughout all phases of the product development lifecycle.

Long-Term Support

  • Identify and implement improvements of designs to reduce cost, increase yield, and improve throughput.
  • Provide production build support for the manufacturing of prototypes through volume ramp-up to production.
  • Mentor and train junior engineers.

Minimum Qualifications

  • B.S. or M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
  • 6+ years of hardware design experience.
  • Design and simulation of complex digital and analog circuits, using circuit simulator, signal integrity and power integrity tools like LTSpice and HyperLynx.
  • Experience working with analog and high-speed (3GHz+) digital signals.
  • Experience designing high power and high-speed PCB stackups for high-reliability / high-safety criticality systems.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, hands-on abilities, and working knowledge of common test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and VNAs.
  • Familiarity with design, analysis and manufacturing standards associated with complex multi-layer PCBs.
  • Ability to solve complex technical problems independently.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally.
  • Experience with design for cost, test and manufacturing.
  • Experience with Altium Designer, OrCAD, or similar schematic capture / PCB Layout software.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in small engineering team environment.
  • Experience with automotive hardware design.
  • Experience designing networking hardware.
  • Experience designing embedded computers.
  • Experience working with automotive camera system designs including GMSL & MIPI CSI-2.
  • Experience with safety standards such as ISO 26262 and MIL-STD-882E.
  • Familiarity with electrical and environmental standards such as MIL-STD-1275, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-810.

Skills

Pcb DesignAltium DesignerOrcadLtspiceHyperlynxSignal IntegrityPower IntegrityHigh-Speed Digital DesignAnalog Circuit DesignEmbedded SystemsAutomotive EthernetDdrI2CCanSpi

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