Sr Hardware Engineer Lead

TEKsystems•Jacksonville, FL

5d•$140,000 - $165,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Sr. Hardware Engineer Lead provides hands-on technical leadership in the design, development, and support of embedded electronic products throughout the product lifecycle. This role leads hardware development and product improvements while partnering cross-functionally to ensure products are reliable, manufacturable, compliant, and successfully supported from development through production.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (required).
3–7 years of experience in hardware design and development of embedded electronic products.
Proven experience taking products from concept through production and sustaining engineering.
Experience supporting manufacturing, production, supply chain, and field technical support.
Experience working in cross-functional product development teams.
Strong knowledge of analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuit design.
Experience with microcontroller-based embedded systems and common communication interfaces (SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, USB, Ethernet).
Experience designing power supplies, sensor interfaces, and battery-powered products.
Proficiency with schematic capture, PCB design, and PCB layout review using tools such as PADS, Altium Designer, or OrCAD.
Familiarity with signal integrity, EMC/EMI mitigation, Design for Manufacturability (DFM), and Design for Testability (DFT).
Experience using laboratory equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, digital multimeters, and power supplies.
Ability to troubleshoot complex hardware issues and perform root cause analysis.
Experience with product validation, environmental testing, and regulatory compliance (FCC, CE, UL, EMC, HazLoc preferred).
Working knowledge of Engineering Change Notice (ECN) processes, configuration management, and engineering documentation.
Software/middleware expertise – knowledge of python, c, c++, linux systems.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field (preferred).
Familiarity with embedded firmware development and debugging is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of embedded electronic products from concept through production, including circuit design, component selection, prototyping, design reviews, documentation, EVT/DVT/PVT, and product release.
Lead and perform analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, sensor, wireless, and microcontroller-based hardware design, including schematic development and PCB layout reviews to ensure performance, manufacturability, and design quality.
Lead prototype bring-up, functional verification, environmental and reliability testing, EMC pre-compliance testing, hardware debugging, root cause analysis, and design validation.
Provide hands-on technical support for production and existing products, including manufacturing issues, pilot builds, engineering changes, yield improvement, product enhancements, defect reduction, and complex troubleshooting.
Partner with Procurement and Supply Chain on component availability, alternate component qualification, obsolescence, supplier technical issues, second sourcing, and cost reduction initiatives.
Serve as a technical escalation point for complex product and customer issues, including field failures, returned products, hardware/firmware troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
Partner with Quality to support engineering documentation, design controls, CAPA investigations, configuration management, ISO 9001 requirements, and product certifications including EMC/EMI, FCC, CE, UL, HazLoc, environmental, and reliability testing.
Provide team, technical, and organizational guidance to engineering team members, including technical direction, mentoring, prioritization, design reviews, engineering best practices, cross-training, and knowledge sharing to support effective execution and accountability across the team.
Work closely with Firmware, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Technical Support, and Operations to prioritize technical issues and ensure successful product development and ongoing product support.