Senior Hardware Designer

Securitas Technology Canada Corporation•Kanata, ON

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Established in 1982, and now a business unit within Securitas Products & Solutions, Instantel is a global market leader in the design and production of vibration monitoring instrumentation. Our products are used in over 120 countries. Applications include civil engineering, construction, environmental, mining, mining exploration, quarry, underwater, structural health, human annoyance, military and noise.

Requirements

A university degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
A minimum of 5 years of experience in designing and developing complex hardware products.
Highly skilled at designing low power battery operated microcontroller-based devices.
Adept at designing and developing intuitive, easy to use, extremely user friendly and robust hardware products.
Skilled in both digital and analog designs.
An in depth understanding of FCC, CE and UL requirements.
An advance and detailed understanding of various communication protocols including serial, USB, TCP/IP Ethernet, wireless including Cellular and Wi-Fi.
Highly skilled with advanced mathematics for signal processing.
Highly motivated, extremely creative and demonstrates accountability.
Outstanding judgement and leadership.
Excellent skills with Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook.
Clear and concise written and oral communication skills with an ability to communicate complex and technical ideas in a simple to understand manner.
Excellent presentation skills.

Responsibilities

Design and development of innovative leading-edge hardware for instrumentation and vibration monitoring products.
Designing robust products using current technologies to enhance our product offering to the industry.
Designing products that drive strategies for leading edge development, thereby further cementing Instantel’s market leading position.
Collaborate with the software and firmware design teams to drive innovation resulting in new products and enhancements of existing products and solutions.
Assist with the planning, organizing, scheduling, managing and executing project development plans while meeting or exceeding milestone targets.
Produce clear and concise specifications and detailed design documents.
Hold design reviews covering how the implementation meets overall product requirements.
Assist in the root cause analysis of customer report issues with new and existing products.
Collaborate with Engineering and Manufacturing on New Product Introduction (NPI).
Any other duties or responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.