Sr. Electrical Engineer

Universal Electronics Inc.•Santa Ana, CA

3d•$140,000 - $160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At UEI, you will be part of a world-class team innovating and revolutionizing wireless control. We make the connected home smarter, easier to connect and use, and more sustainable, delighting Fortune 100 customers with groundbreaking wireless technology solutions. The Sr. Electrical Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for designing, developing, integrating, and validating electrical hardware for connected-home and consumer-electronics products. This role spans the entire product lifecycle, 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 various internal teams (software, mechanical, RF, test, applications, program management, sourcing, quality, manufacturing) across global 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.
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

Masterâ€™s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline is preferred.
Experience with wireless technologies such as Bluetooth/BLE, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Thread/Matter, sub-GHz RF, or Cellular 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.
Select and qualify components based on performance, cost, availability, lifecycle, reliability, regulatory, and manufacturability requirements; evaluate alternate and second-source components.
Guide PCB placement and routing, considering signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, RF coexistence, antenna-interface, thermal, testability, and design-for-manufacturing.
Plan and execute prototype bring-up, debugging, characterization, design verification, tolerance analysis, worst-case analysis, and reliability testing.
Diagnose complex product and system issues across hardware, firmware, software, RF, mechanical, manufacturing, and test boundaries; drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
Perform design reviews and provide technical recommendations, risk assessments, trade-off analyses, and documentation.
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.
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.
Travel domestically or internationally as needed to support customers, suppliers, UEI engineering teams, certification activities, and manufacturing sites.