Astemo
Hardware Engineer
Harrodsburg, Kentucky, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 hours ago
Product ManagementFEAThermal AnalysisMechanical DesignElectrical EngineeringHardware DesignPower ElectronicsControlsLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingOrganizational Skills
About the role
- This role will primarily be responsible for supporting the response to new business quotations and advanced development for transfer case, suspension, or BMS control units.
- The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Dexterity of hands, fingers, and wrists to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other computer components.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the mechanical engineering team, system engineering team, production team, and software team to create a complete design proposal.
- Work with electrical component suppliers to understand possible solutions for clean sheet design or modifications to existing or advanced development designs. This includes understanding directional cost to achieve a cost optimized solution
- Support hardware design and development of electronic control units from concept through production, ensuring compliance with automotive quality and reliability standards.
- With the support of a supervising engineer, provide technical representation for the electrical hardware team to the customer or internal groups to present design status, technical proposals, and issue resolutions.
- Support design reviews (e.g., schematic reviews, DFMEA, design verification) and drive resolution of action items.
- Collaborate with manufacturing teams to ensure hardware designs are production-ready, supporting DFM reviews, build support, and the smooth transition from prototype through series production.
- Test electrical designs using common lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, arbitrary loads, etc. to create a test report with meaningful data for review by the larger team.
- Electrical design knowledge in the context of 12V automotive systems, including power distribution, signal conditioning, protection circuitry, and grounding strategies.
- Familiarity with power electronics topologies including H-bridge motor drivers, high-side and low-side drive circuits, BLDC motor control, buck/boost switching regulators, and linear voltage regulation.
Requirements
- Related 4-year technical degree with equivalent industry experience
- 2 years of experience in automotive ECU design and development environment
- Required to sit or stand for long periods in an industrial lab environment.
- Domestic and international may be required as needed up to 10%.
- Some amount of working remotely is allowed but the candidate must be physically present in the office/lab when duties dictate the need.
- The ideal candidate brings strong problem solving skills, strong understanding of electrical engineering concepts, interest and enthusiasm for hardware electronics design, and a willingness to learn.
Nice to have
- (Preferred) BS Electrical Engineering
- (Preferred) 1+ years of experience in driveline control or suspension control or BMS design
Equal opportunity
- Employer (EOE) - Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, disability, protected veteran status and national origin.
- At Astemo, we're challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. Our goal is to build an inclusive work environment that celebrates the differences of our employees. We want to ensure that every employee feels valued, respected and empowered. We don't just accept difference-we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Astemo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job at Astemo, please send the nature of the request and contact information to am-jobs@hitachiastemo.com when applying for the position.
- At Astemo, we're challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration.
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