eCAD Engineer

Flex N Gate•Allen Park, MI

11d

About The Position

The eCAD Engineer leads electronic computer-aided design (eCAD) activities for printed circuit boards (PCBs) used in automotive exterior lighting electronic systems and other emerging automotive electronics systems for Flex-N-Gate. The role focuses on developing and overseeing multilayer PCB layouts for automotive ECUs and coordinating across functions to ensure robust products. The engineer designs, develops, characterizes, optimizes, validates, releases, launches, and maintains eCAD data. This includes ensuring schematics, PCB layouts, and manufacturing data meet company standards and electrical performance, reliability, and manufacturability requirements; maintaining component and design libraries; and developing PCB stack-ups, routing strategies, impedance control, and constraints. The role also generates manufacturing and assembly outputs and maintains end-to-end traceability of layouts to requirements. The position coordinates with eCAD, CAD, manufacturing, product engineering, program management, OEM, and supplier teams. It provides technical support through development, launch, and production, supports verification and validation planning and design reviews, and follows company and industry processes including ASPICE, APQP, ISO 26262 Functional Safety, and cybersecurity processes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
Experience with eCAD in automotive electronics or similar complex systems.
Working knowledge of ASPICE system development processes and experience applying them to real projects.
Familiarity with ISO 26262 Functional Safety concepts at the hardware interface level.
Understanding of design rules for automotive communication networks (CAN, CAN FD, LIN), hardwire-based system interfaces, and EMC.
Experience contributing to system design activities such as electronics design reviews, DFMEA, DVP&R, architecture development, or system validation.
Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in a related engineering discipline.
5–10+ years’ experience in electronics design.
Hands-on experience using Polarion ALM, DOORS, or similar requirements management platforms.
Automotive electronics experience related to lighting, controllers, wiring harnesses, sensors, or actuators.
Background in electronic system modeling, simulation, or analysis tools such as PSpice, MathCAD, Altium, or Ansys.
Exposure to EMC and environmental requirements, thermal considerations, and design-for-manufacturability principles.
PCB certification such as IPC CID, PCE, or equivalent.
EMC/SI/PI Advanced Training Certification.
Knowledge of IPC standards such as IPC-2221, IPC-7351, and IPC-610.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, characterize, optimize, validate, release, launch, and maintain eCAD data for PCBs.
Ensure schematics, PCB layouts, and manufacturing data comply with Flex-N-Gate standards and electrical performance, reliability, and manufacturability requirements.
Ensure end-to-end traceability of layouts to requirements using requirements management tools.
Collaborate with eCAD, CAD, and manufacturing engineers globally to develop products that meet customer requirements.
Maintain libraries of components, schematics, layouts, symbols, footprints, part attributes, and documentation.
Develop PCB stack-ups, routing strategies, impedance control, and constraints.
Generate manufacturing and assembly outputs, including Gerbers, ODB++, pick-and-place data, and BOMs.
Manage PCB projects and report to program managers.
Provide electronic support to manufacturing plants and product engineering teams.
Comply with Flex-N-Gate and industry processes such as ASPICE, APQP, ISO 26262 Functional Safety, and cybersecurity processes.
Communicate and interface with OEMs and suppliers; review OEM specifications and integrate customer requirements into eCAD.
Support system verification and validation planning (DVP&R), contribute to DFMEA, and participate in compliance reviews.
Provide technical support during development, launch, and production for electronic system behavior, requirements interpretation, and change management issues.
Maintain knowledge of automotive electronics technologies, communication protocols (CAN, CAN FD, LIN, and hardwire I/O), and regulatory requirements.
Create and present technical information to engineers and OEM customers through design reviews, technical discussions, and formal documentation.