Lead Hardware Engineer | Electrical/Mechanical (ADAS) | Remote

Cherry Bekaert • Grand Rapids, MI

23h • Remote

About The Position

The Lead Hardware Engineer will build next-generation automotive diagnostic and ADAS calibration equipment. This is a hands-on, highly visible role combining electrical engineering, mechanical design, embedded controls, and manufacturing, with responsibility for becoming the technical owner. The role also helps establish the hardware-development function, including standards, supplier relationships, and eventually a team.

Requirements

• At least 6 years developing electromechanical products, with substantial electrical engineering depth and meaningful mechanical responsibility.
• Experience personally carrying at least one physical product from requirements through production and field support.
• Hands-on bench skills, including schematic and board review, harness fabrication, soldering and rework, and confident use of a DMM, oscilloscope, and logic analyzer.
• Practical 3D CAD skills, including GD&T and tolerance analysis.
• A builder mentality: hands-on while setting direction, challenging suppliers, and developing others.
• Comfort working with vehicle sensor systems and the tight tolerances required for calibration.
• Experience working close to ADAS hardware or vehicle electronics, and ability to learn vehicle communication protocols quickly.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical architecture—including boards, harnesses, power distribution, batteries, and sensor interfaces—from schematic review through bench bring-up and failure diagnosis.
• Specify and troubleshoot embedded and PC-based controls and sensor data-acquisition systems using CAN, USB, I²C/SPI, and RS-232/485; write job-specific Python, C, or C++ utilities.
• Guide mechanical design of enclosures, mounts, and fixtures, and own alignment tolerances that affect calibration accuracy.
• Apply DFM/DFA early, support pilot builds and production ramp, and work directly with fabricators, molders, and contract manufacturers.
• Root-cause field and manufacturing failures and feed findings back into product design.
• Help establish the hardware-development function, including standards, supplier relationships, and eventually a team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed