Purpose of Position

Responsible to lead the complete embedded hardware design process and life cycle of distributed industrial control and monitoring hardware.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, development, modification and analysis of distributed electronic hardware, equipment  and systems
• Develop and continuously improve hardware development processes.
• Champion new ideas and processes within the organization
• Recommend design approaches to meet requirements in new and existing products
• Evaluate designs for safety and compliance with certifications like UL, CSA, CE for industrial automation
• Work with other engineers, managers, marketing, production control, quality and manufacturing groups to develop requirements, specifications and test plans
• Work with procurement and suppliers in building prototype and production circuit boards
• Specify and perform verification, testing and debugging of electronic subsystems
• Coordinate with other engineers in design, development, verification and integration of the company products
• Diagnose complex problems/faults in existing systems and recommend design changes to improve performance
• Manage lifecycle of existing and future designs to ensure obsolescence risks are minimized and common designs are utilized
• Ensure technology solutions are made available that meet new and emerging market requirements
• Create and maintain documentation including schematic, bills of materials, drawings to support prototyping and volume manufacturing
• Share expertise and experience with others, both in mentoring junior associates and in sharing knowledge with other teams and with other Trojan operating companies.

Desired Skills and Experience

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Electrical or Electronics Engineering with 10+ years of experience in Electronics and Embedded Systems hardware design, including (but not limited to) experience in the following technology areas
  • Designs involving microcontrollers and FPGAs
  • Communication interfaces including RS-485, Ethernet, I2C, SPI
  • Design for Manufacturability
  • Design for Testability
  • Design for UL, CSA or CE compliance
  • Analog and digital PCB design
  • Linear and switching power supply design
  • ADC/DAC system design
  • Signal conditioning, passive and active filter design
• You have advanced PCB and system-level troubleshooting experience
• You have excellent technical documentation skills (including experience creating Design Specifications, Block Diagrams and Test Plans)
• You possess effective written and verbal communications skills
• You are able to successfully interface with internal and external customers, appreciate their challenges and maintain their respect.
   

Work Environment

• You love learning and progressing your skill set. This means that you are comfortable talking about your weaknesses just as much as your strengths, and working on improving will be a daily habit.
• We work in a very collaborative environment so you'll need to feel comfortable in caring more about the end result than exactly whose ideas achieved it.
• You are willing to take personal ownership and accountability of a project or task and become invested in the outcome regardless of successes and failures along the way.
• You are able to effectively highlight issues to senior leaders, drive consensus and forge solutions
• You are able and willing to travel, are comfortable with occasional field work and welcome the opportunity to work with teams from all over the world.
• You question the established practices and processes on a regular basis and want to work on a team where striving to continuously find a better way of doing things is expected and valued.