HW Engineer Job Description
HW engineer
provides ad hoc, on-demand access to reliable and relevant data using best practices in data modeling and AWS (Redshift, EC2, S3) technologies.
HW Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective HW engineer job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included HW engineer job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
To understand the product, the system and learn fast
The willingness to accept and overcome challenges on a daily basis
To think “out-of-the-box”
To apply creative solutions to complex technical problems
To be able to work independently and as part of an inspiring team
To work in an international environment across countries and cultures
High level of oversight of cargo product line platform development projects
Technically lead product development through complete lifecycle including requirements, concept development, design reviews, V&V and release to production while ensuring engineering best practices are followed
Responsible for managing technical requirements including analysis and decomposition of customer and/or product requirements into subsystem specifications
Generation of top level design specifications for cargo platforms
HW Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for HW Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: DER, DO-254, UL, ASQ, ISO, LTE, CTIA, PTCRB, II, IAT
Education for HW Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the HW engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics, Computer Engineering, Technical, Education, Science, Information Systems, Physics
Skills for HW Engineer
Desired skills for HW engineer include:
AWS products: EC2
EBS
S3
Expedition cad tool
System level understanding
Power
Thermal
Audio
3GPP Technologies
Batteries
Desired experience for HW engineer includes:
At least 4-5 years in HW engineering for consumer electronics
Understanding of consumer electronics development processes and methodologies throughout the project life cycle
C++ and systemC coding skills
Experience in hardware and firmware design and development
Minimum of 3 years of experience as an FPGA engineer is required, 5 to 7 years of experience working with ODM partners is preferred
Familiarity with basic concepts of design engineering, reliability, prototyping and failure analysis
HW Engineer Examples
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a HW engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for HW engineer
- Perform trade studies to determine optimal product design
- Define test strategy and V&V plan with traceability back to requirements to ensure compliance
- Interaction with functional leads of all design disciplines in generating the specifications and owner of the final specification and delivery of the engineering design package to meet this specification
- Develop system engineering components for major proposal efforts including conceptual designs to meet customer requirements, full subcontractor specifications and statements of work, and overall ownership of proposal engineering content
- Generation of specifications for major subsystems supplied by product line partners and key suppliers
- On-site work with international customers to define system level solution, lead system level integration and validate performance after installation
- Design-For-Q&R (DFQR)/DFT/DFM work during system product design stage
- Failure analysis and remedy development
- RMA investigation, disposition and reporting
- Developing product reliability validation strategy, plans and DOEs
Qualifications for HW engineer
- A Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, or a Masters Degree
- High Speed design basics
- Technical experience with digital components
- Logic design experience (CPLD or FPGA design)
- Hardware Verification Languages including System Verilog, Scripting Test Benches, OVM/UVM Methodologies and System Verilog Assertions
- Simulation Tools such as Simvision and Verdi
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of HW engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for HW engineer
- Define functionality requirements of final products
- Design, build, and troubleshoot test equipment
- Perform review of new product documentation including drawings and component data sheets
- Update documentation of Quality Engineering test procedures
- Work with other Quality Engineers and Quality Technicians to execute Quality Test Plan
- Incorporate test automation and use of robotics in test design
- Perform analysis to determine how systems behave under a variety of fault conditions (environmental, ) to determine product weaknesses
- Investigate product field failures by reproducing them in a controlled environment, and perform failure analysis to determine root cause
- Present results of testing and root cause analysis to the Design Team who will release results in the form of control documents used for systems worldwide
- Perform system level testing across VT corners
Qualifications for HW engineer
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering
- Familiar with PLC technical requirements and key technology
- Experienced in analog and digital circuit design
- Good understanding on EMC design / verification
- Familiar with the principle of component selection
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of HW engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for HW engineer
- Complete circuit analysis including worst case, monte carlo, and complete schematic capture
- Interface with ECAD for circuit board layout, compliance with Manufacturing Design Rules
- Control and release Electrical BOM
- Work with product assurance to develop test specifications on required test equipment
- Interface with EMC activities to ensure compliance and final approvals from customer
- Interface with suppliers for development of component specifications, resolving open issues and ensure part availability
- Lead design reviews and identify, track, and implement necessary design changes
- Perform electrical development of bench testing
- Documentation of all aspects in the product development process
- Development of hardware/software interface specifications
Qualifications for HW engineer
- Familiar with electronics product DFM (Design for manufacturing)
- Familiar with OrCAD Cadence and Allegro or Mentor Graphics(ex-designer and expedition)
- Must be a team player, have high quality awareness
- Good interpersonal, communication and English language skills
- Awareness of using a structured approach to designing embedded software using design tools
- 3 years industrial experience developing real time embedded software development in C
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of HW engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for HW engineer
- Execute development in accordance with APDS
- Design validation testing
- Advanced mechanical / dimensional measurements
- Cross section metrology
- Modifications and reworks
- Prototype Certification evaluations
- Lab Entry Support
- Define, understand and document mircro-architecture of complex functional block
- Supporting and Debugging in a multidisciplinary system
- Test and integrate Electronics Boards
Qualifications for HW engineer
- Knowledge of electronic measurement and test equipment, ability to debug hardware
- Willing and able to travel overseas (to support customers, suppliers or manufacturing sites)
- Knowledge of protocols like SPI, CAN, XCP/CCP, UDS or J1939 will be an advantage
- Knowledge of C++, C# and .NET programming will be an advantage
- Digital and Analogue hardware design experience will be an advantage
- Must hold Bachelor or Master Degree or PhD in Engineering (Electrical/Mechanical/Avionics) with 15+ years of relevant industry experience (safety critical systems)
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a HW engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for HW engineer
- Lab equipment automation including Oscilloscope, DC power supply, Signal Generator, VNA
- End to end ownership and ability to lead tasks
- Alignment and coordination with the different groups and disciplines inside and outside R&D
- Design and build jigs and prototypes
- Design and lead test plans
- Work closely with the extended ASIC design team to incorporate DFT tools and test methodologies into the ASIC design flows, facilitating the test ability of complex digital and mixed signal ASIC’s
- Work with the ASIC and instrument design teams to develop and implement a test plan to address characterization, prototyping and production test needs
- Develop hardware and software for ASIC/Microcircuit specific package and wafer test systems utilizing the Advantest 93K test platform
- Provide test expertise to support first silicon turn on, ASIC characterization, and test suite deployment into manufacturing
- Root cause investigation and analysis of HW failures and issues
Qualifications for HW engineer
- Must have strong technical background at system or sub-system level in safety critical systems
- Must have worked in 3 or more end to end product development projects with significant accountability in hardware function
- Must be well versed with industry standards and practices related to hardware architecture, design, qualification and certification
- Design for Manufacture and Assembly proficiency
- Attention to detail, disciplined work ethic, and strong organizational skills are a must
- Program language know-how for test automatization