Lead Electrical Engineer (Direct Hire)
Willowbrook, IL
Job Requisition: 7503
Pay Range:$125-150k plus annual bonus.Individualrates are based on education, geographic location, and alignment to the market data.
Description for Lead Electrical Engineer:
The Lead Hardware Engineer position is part of the Platform team. This team is responsible for the creation and maintenance of automotive battery and electrical system test equipment platforms. The Lead Hardware Engineer job responsibilities include all aspects of hardware design and development to ensure performance, reliability, and an overall high-quality product. In this role, the Lead Hardware Engineer will work in and, in some cases, lead design teams. The Platform Engineering team is responsible for all engineering activities on tester, charger, and electric vehicle battery management platforms.
Responsibilities for Lead Electrical Engineer:
- Electronics hardware design and development that delivers a high-quality, reliable, on-time product thatmeets our customers’ needs.
- 70-80% - Development work
- New platform development
- New design product technical ownership/leadership
- Mentor and guide Hardware Engineers on the team on a daily basis.
- Lead Hardware Engineering Scrum, including biweekly Sprint Planning and Retrospective.
- Create and maintain product technical documentation – specification, design documents.
- Designing and troubleshooting microcontrollers and embedded mixed-signal systems at the componentlevel.
- Perform schematic capture, work with layout resources, and perform board bring-up and developmentvalidation on designs.
- Initiate and participate in hardware/platform design reviews.
- Work closely with other departments (mechanical, software, production, etc) to support ongoing designtasks and projects.
- Work closely with the customer and technical teams to understand needs/problems and develop designsand solutions to solve these problems.
- Work with Supply Chain and suppliers in component selection, approval and manufacturing.
- Understands intended business use of the designs and develops solutions to meet business needs.
- Intake tasks, create WBS, estimate effort and perform to those estimations.
- Continually improving hardware engineering process by working on improvement initiatives.
- Be proactive in designs and architectures for future platform development decisions to maximize reuseand cost efficiencies.
- Maintain and use hardware engineering standards.
- Resolve technical questions and issues post-delivery.
- 20-30% - Maintenance, troubleshooting support
Requirements for Lead Electrical Engineer:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent – MBA a Plus
- 7 - 10+ years’ experience in product design
- Demonstrated work experience with complex mixed signal, digital and analog design - expertise in design,development, testing and debugging
- Ability to provide technical assessment and leadership to other project team members and departments
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience with UL, CB Scheme, etc. would be a plus
Benefits for Lead Electrical Engineer:
- Hybrid work schedule.
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- PTO.
- Holidays.
- 401k with match and no vesting.
- Tuition reimbursement.
