Sr. Electronic Design Engineer

Actalent•Palo Alto, CA

35d•$65 - $80•Onsite

About The Position

This team designs the eyes, ears, and brains of our client's vehicle charging and residential/industrial energy storage products. This skilled and motivated individual will keep pushing this evolving industry forward by designing central processing boards, wireless/wired communication systems, circuits to ensure user and equipment safety, energy metering, thermal controls, system level components including breakers, contactors, and pyro fuses, and much more.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience and 3+ years of relevant work experience
Experience in selection and use of DSPs, microcontrollers, or programmable logic devices
Experience designing digital communication busses (CAN, Ethernet, RS-485, USB, SPI, I2C, etc.)
Experience in selection and use of analog sensors and signal conditioning circuits
Experience designing board level power supplies (buck, boost, flyback, etc.)
Experience in PCB layout, plane definition, thermal and EMC optimization
Medium to high volume DFT and DFM
DDR memory, ethernet, signal integrity, PCB layout, bench validation, debug, scripting

Nice To Haves

Previous work in the solar, energy storage, electric vehicle, or electric vehicle charging industry is a plus
Experience in battery management systems, power electronics, high-speed digital design or RF is a plus
Experience in development of digital and analog interfaces for test systems, especially (Labview, Matlab, Python) is a plus

Responsibilities

Design and develop digital and analog electronic PCBAs, and system level design for energy products
Collaborative work with mechanical, firmware, EMC, RF, design validation, thermal design, compliance, reliability, and manufacturing test engineers
Start to finish ownership of circuit board electronics - from specification through design, prototype, validation, and manufacturing