Sr. Electrical Engineer

Universal Electronics•Santa Ana, CA

39d•Onsite

About The Position

At UEI, you will be part of a world-class team innovating and revolutionizing wireless control for smart home devices. We develop chips, software licenses, and turnkey products that enhance how consumers interact with their homes, making them smarter, easier to connect, and more sustainable. Our Fortune 100 customers, including Comcast, Apple, Samsung, Google, Vivint, and Daikin, rely on our groundbreaking wireless technology solutions. These include advanced voice-enabled remote controls, cloud control solutions, extreme low-power Bluetooth silicon with energy harvesting capabilities, smart thermostats and sensors, and various other IoT solutions. The Sr. Electrical Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for the independent design, development, integration, and validation of electrical hardware for connected-home and consumer-electronics products. This role encompasses complex electrical design activities from requirements and system architecture through schematic capture, prototype bring-up, design verification, regulatory support, cost optimization, and transfer to high-volume production. The engineer collaborates closely with software, mechanical, RF, test, applications, program management, sourcing, quality, and manufacturing teams across UEI locations, as well as with customers and suppliers.

Requirements

Minimum of 7 years of related electrical engineering experience developing embedded or consumer-electronics products.
Demonstrated ability to work highly independently and solve complex technical and business problems with limited direction.
Strong knowledge of circuit design, schematic capture, design optimization, design review, prototyping, electrical validation, reliability analysis, and requirements analysis.
Hands-on experience with microcontrollers or application processors, memory, serial interfaces such as I2C, SPI and UART, USB, power supplies, battery systems, sensors, and mixed-signal circuitry.
Experience using ECAD and engineering-analysis tools for schematic design, PCB collaboration, simulation, component research, and design documentation.
Proficiency with laboratory equipment such as digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, function generators, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and network analyzers as applicable.
Working knowledge of EMI/EMC, product safety, design for manufacturing, design for test, tolerance analysis, reliability, and high-volume product development.
Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly to engineering and non-engineering audiences, including customers, suppliers, and global teams.
Strong analytical, organizational, collaboration, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline from an accredited college or university is required.

Nice To Haves

Experience with wireless technologies such as Bluetooth/BLE, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Thread/Matter, sub-GHz RF, or Cellular is preferred.
Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead complex electrical hardware development for wireless control, smart-home, thermostat, sensing, and other embedded consumer-electronics products.
Translate product and customer requirements into electrical system architectures, block diagrams, component-level schematics, design specifications, interface definitions, and electrical bills of material.
Design and review digital, analog, mixed-signal, power-management, battery-powered, sensor, display, audio, infrared, and wireless-support circuitry as applicable to the product.
Select and qualify components based on performance, cost, availability, lifecycle, reliability, regulatory, and manufacturability requirements; evaluate alternate and second-source components when needed.
Guide PCB placement and routing, including signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, RF coexistence, antenna-interface, thermal, testability, and design-for-manufacturing considerations.
Plan and execute prototype bring-up, debugging, characterization, design verification, tolerance analysis, worst-case analysis, and reliability testing using appropriate laboratory equipment.
Diagnose complex product and system issues across hardware, firmware, software, RF, mechanical, manufacturing, and test boundaries; drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions to closure.
Perform design reviews and provide clear technical recommendations, risk assessments, trade-off analyses, and documentation for project and business decisions.
Support regulatory and product-safety certification activities, including test readiness, technical investigation, and resolution of compliance issues.
Partner with global manufacturing and test engineering teams to define electrical test coverage, support pilot builds, resolve production issues, improve yield, and release designs into high-volume production.
Collaborate with applications and program teams on customer RFQs, feasibility studies, technical responses, preliminary schematics, and BOM development when required.
Provide technical guidance to other engineers and cross-functional team members; may lead the technical work of a project team without direct supervisory responsibility.
Maintain accurate engineering records and release documentation in accordance with UEI development and change-control processes.
Travel domestically or internationally as needed to support customers, suppliers, UEI engineering teams, certification activities, and manufacturing sites.