Hardware Design Engineer

About Lear Corporation

Lear, a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, enables superior in-vehicle experiences for consumers around the world. Lear’s diverse team of talented employees in 38 countries is driven by a commitment to innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability. Lear is Making every drive better™ by providing the technology for safer, smarter, and more comfortable journeys. Lear, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, serves every major automaker in the world and ranks 186 on the Fortune 500. Further information about Lear is available at lear.com or on Twitter @LearCorporation.

Technical Role and Responsibilities

Experience within design work, preferably within technology areas with similarities to the actual position.

Analog and digital circuit design

Microcontroller selection and building external circuitry for its peripherals

Use of ADC / DAC and its interface with microcontrollers

Experience in switch mode power supply, LDO design

Simulation of electronic circuit and component using simulation tools PSPICE, LTSPICE

Electronic component evaluation for suitability and characteristics

Good knowledge in Circuit board schematic and PCB layout design, using eCAD toolchain like Altium, Cadence Allegro, etc.

Awareness of DFM (design for manufacturing) and DFT (design for testing) guidelines

Exposure to reliability calculation, MTBF, fault tolerant design, worst case circuit analysis

Experience in providing input to PCB engineer for placement and routing and review of finished PCB layouts

Experience in working with Mechanical CAD engineer for defining right enclosure for electronics

Experience in BOM cost optimization

Good knowledge in design for EMC

Experience in using electronic measuring equipment like oscilloscope, function generator, etc.

Experience in pre-compliance and compliance testing

Good knowledge in vehicle communication protocols (CAN/LIN)

Good knowledge in Requirements engineering and associated tools like DOORS, Enterprise Architect, PTC Integrity

General knowledge of development processes, methods, and tools.

Personal qualities appropriate for working in a design team; analytical, structured, good communicative skills and able to take initiatives.

Exposure to component obsolescence management

Exposure of using any PLM tool

Fluent knowledge in English, spoken and written

Derive hardware requirements specification from customer requirements and system design specification.

Design hardware specification in accordance with the hardware requirements and system design specification.

Create reliability calculation, MTBF, fault tolerant design, worst case circuit analysis

Verify hardware design using theoretical calculations, analysis, simulations and test.

Create documents for manufacturing of PCB’s and PCBA’s.

Analyse test data from HW test engineer to ensure that the design fulfils all requirements.

Create HW/SW interface specifications in collaboration with SW designer.

Anchor the production feasibility of the product with CFT and purchase organization.

Work according to agreed processes and tools and support continuous improvement of them.

Escalate deviations to Electronics COE Manager and project responsible.

Ensure that a safe development process is applied and that the end-product is safe.

Report working hours spent on different projects.