Hardware Engineer, Input Sensing
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a specialized field (e.g., Optics, Sensors, Audio/DSP, etc.), or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience working with sensing system prototype design in a technical environment.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics or a related field.
- Experience in multiphysics simulations (e.g., Ansys, COMSOL) to model structural-electrostatic interactions and guide mechanical design.
- Experienced with embedded firmware development for sensor bring-up (e.g., C/C++, Zephyr RTOS, or Android kernel drivers).
- Experience with mixed-signal auditing and analog front-end design, specifically Programmable Gain Amplifiers (PGA), Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC) and Digital-to-Analog Conversion (DAC), and integration at system level.
- Experience with 3D CAD tools (e.g., NX, SolidWorks) and performing tolerance analysis on mechanical stack-ups.
- Understanding of force sensing technologies (e.g., strain, capacitive, resistive, piezo).
About the job
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Responsibilities
- Identify flaws and issues with hardware components. Solve with limited precedent and analyze key issues, risks, or trade-offs, and address hardware failures by recommending and implementing solutions.
- Evaluate hardware design feasibility based on product requirements. Help identify and customize the design solution based on trade-offs in packaging, performance, power or technology selection, and scope hardware projects. Collaborate with internal partners and external vendors.
- Apply best practices to enhance constrained hardware components to meet performance, power, and cost-effectiveness requirements. Predict consequences of hardware design decisions in cross-functional trade-off discussions, supported by simulation or measurement data, as needed.
- Work with cross-functional teams to enhance hardware performance under established design constraints.
- Drive efforts for the documentation of the hardware design, its implementation, or test/validation results throughout the product life cycle.
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