Electrical Engineer II - Embedded Systems Hardware

Milwaukee Tool•Brookfield, MT

21h

About The Position

The Electrical Engineer II - Embedded Systems Hardware designs, develops, tests, and validates MCU-based embedded hardware platforms, with an emphasis on circuit design, hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, and reference design delivery. The role collaborates with hardware, firmware, systems, test, product-development, architecture, and reliability engineers to solve hardware and system-level challenges. Working knowledge of embedded firmware supports MCU configuration, hardware validation, hardware/firmware integration, and debugging. The engineer contributes to multidisciplinary development of embedded electronics platforms from concept and schematic through prototyping, bring-up, validation, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation. The role includes evaluating components and design tradeoffs, applying engineering best practices, owning assigned project deliverables, and communicating technical risks and recommendations. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.; sponsorship is not available for this position at this time.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering field.
Approximately 2+ years of relevant hands-on experience.
Strong fundamentals in analog and digital circuit design.
Hands-on experience designing, bringing up, testing, and troubleshooting MCU-based embedded hardware.
Proficiency with laboratory instrumentation, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and power supplies.
Experience with schematic capture and the PCB design and layout process using ECAD tools.
Experience applying circuit simulation and engineering analysis to guide and validate hardware designs.
Working knowledge of MCU peripherals, including GPIO, timers, ADCs, and serial communication interfaces.
Demonstrated ability to systematically troubleshoot hardware and perform root-cause analysis.
Authorization to work in the U.S.; sponsorship is unavailable for this position.

Nice To Haves

Experience performing PCB rework and circuit modifications for prototype bring-up, debugging, and design validation.
Experience using embedded C/C++ to configure MCU peripherals and support hardware bring-up, testing, and troubleshooting.
Experience supporting EMC/EMI testing, troubleshooting results, and implementing design improvements.
Experience with embedded communication interfaces such as UART, I²C, SPI, USB, or CAN.
Experience evaluating and selecting MCUs, sensors, analog devices, communication ICs, or other semiconductor components.

Responsibilities

Design, prototype, test, troubleshoot, and document embedded electronics platforms as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team.
Develop embedded hardware from concept and schematic through bring-up, validation, and documentation, including test plans, procedures, and test cases.
Design and validate MCU interface circuitry, including analog and digital signal conditioning, filtering, communication interfaces, control circuits, and protection circuitry.
Understand and troubleshoot MCU peripherals and interfaces, including GPIO, timers, ADCs, and communication peripherals, in partnership with firmware engineers.
Independently troubleshoot embedded hardware and system-level interactions, using hardware modifications and embedded firmware as needed to isolate root causes.
Evaluate critical electronic components, perform technical tradeoff analyses, and recommend design or requirement changes based on performance, cost, risk, and project needs.
Apply engineering best practices including circuit simulation, derating analysis, PCB design and layout, instrumentation, root-cause analysis, validation, and technical documentation.
Own assigned deliverables against project schedules and work breakdown structures; proactively communicate technical risks, opportunities, recommendations, and required escalations.
Collaborate with hardware, firmware, systems, test, reliability, and product-development teams, as well as external semiconductor and component suppliers.