Senior Hardware Engineer

Bosch Group • Plymouth, MI

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About The Position

The Senior Hardware Engineer supports or owns the design of automotive computing products, including infotainment, connectivity, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), and cross-domain electronic control units. The role translates customer and market requirements into robust, cost-effective hardware designs and leads those designs through verification, validation, industrialization, and mass-production launch. Work directly with automotive OEM customers to elicit, analyze, document, and manage functional, electrical, environmental, safety, and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) requirements. Define system and hardware architectures for products that include switch-mode power supplies, power switches, LVDS transceivers, HDMI receivers, USB hubs, embedded microcontrollers, audio/video codecs, and standards-based wireless communications such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Lead schematic design, component selection, design reviews, interface definition, and printed circuit board layout guidance, including signal-integrity, power-integrity, thermal, grounding, and design-for-manufacturing considerations. Perform simulations, worst-case circuit analysis, tolerance analysis, design failure mode and effects analyses (DFMEAs), fault-tree analyses, and similar design-assurance activities. Develop and negotiate hardware verification and EMC validation plans that satisfy internal, customer, and applicable automotive requirements; maintain requirements-to-test traceability. Troubleshoot validation, manufacturing, and vehicle issues through bench-level debugging, testing, measurement, root-cause analysis, and prototyping; drive corrective actions to closure. Manage hardware deliverables, technical risks, design documentation, change control, and release readiness across the product life cycle. Lead and collaborate with local and global cross-functional engineering teams, suppliers, manufacturing partners, and customers to meet quality, cost, timing, and performance targets. Mentor less-experienced engineers and contribute to hardware design standards, reusable methods, and continuous improvement. Travel as required, including occasional international travel and travel to domestic customer and global company locations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, computer engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• 7 years of experience designing and developing electronic hardware, including ownership of complex circuit designs and delivery through verification or production release.
• Demonstrated proficiency in schematic capture, circuit analysis, laboratory debugging, technical documentation, and design reviews.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and collaborate effectively across disciplines, organizations, and geographic regions.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering or a closely related discipline.
• Experience with automotive hardware-development practices, OEM customer requirements, product-quality processes, and applicable environmental, EMC, and electrical-transient standards.
• Full product-life-cycle experience with automotive electronics.
• Digital design experience with processors, microcontrollers, memories, display interfaces, I²S, I²C, SPI, and high-speed serial interfaces.
• Analog and mixed-signal design experience with audio, video, sensor interfaces, power supplies, power sequencing, and radio-frequency technologies.
• Experience applying signal-integrity, power-integrity, EMI, RFI, ESD, grounding, shielding, and thermal-design methods.
• Experience developing and executing design verification plans and reports (DVP&R), interpreting test results, and resolving nonconformities.
• Proficiency with current laboratory equipment.
• Experience with circuit-simulation, schematic-capture, PCB-layout, requirements-management, and product-life-cycle-management tools.
• Working knowledge of functional safety, cybersecurity, component qualification, reliability, and supplier-management considerations for automotive electronics.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems through independent analysis and cross-functional collaboration, influence technical decisions, and communicate effectively with customers and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support or own the design of automotive computing products.
• Translate customer and market requirements into robust, cost-effective hardware designs.
• Lead hardware designs through verification, validation, industrialization, and mass-production launch.
• Work directly with automotive OEM customers to elicit, analyze, document, and manage requirements.
• Define system and hardware architectures for various product components.
• Lead schematic design, component selection, design reviews, and PCB layout guidance.
• Perform simulations, circuit analysis, and design assurance activities.
• Develop and negotiate hardware verification and EMC validation plans.
• Troubleshoot validation, manufacturing, and vehicle issues.
• Manage hardware deliverables, technical risks, design documentation, and release readiness.
• Lead and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, suppliers, manufacturing partners, and customers.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers.
• Contribute to hardware design standards, reusable methods, and continuous improvement.
• Travel as required for domestic and international business.

Benefits

• Quality, cost, timing, and performance targets are met.
• Continuous improvement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior