Objective

The Electrical Design Senior Engineer (Switches) is responsible for the design and development of automotive electronic modules and components, inter-company coordination, and new product design. They also act as a customer liaison.

Essential Responsibilities

• Create new electronics product designs based on customer requests or internal development.
• Understand customer procedures and implements or adapts development to meet those requirements.
• Implement new designs into production by creating designs and following the entire development process.
• Assist the Quality Department in analyzing of warranty and other customer returns.
• Work in conjunction with leadership to develop long-range and short-range goals for self and department.
• Ensure on-time delivery of product development milestones.
• Prepare product or system layout and detailed schematics/drawings as required.
• Analyze test data and reports to determine if design meets functional and performance specifications.
• Maintain customer engineering contact (as required) throughout the program, including program timing and technical development.
• Liaise with suppliers for quotes, specifications and samples.
• Update / Maintain current Nidec Mobility products through research and recommendation for improvement design opportunities of electronic modules and components. Verifying that all specifications are met.
• Support / Implement the ISO14001 Environmental Policy as it pertains to work activities.

Experience: 10 Years Electrical Design Engineering (Switches)

Education: BSEE

Certifications: N/A

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Knowledge of automotive switch electrical design.
• Knowledge of LED lightingKnowledge of microprocessors, voltage regulators, PTC's, relays, and power electronics.
• Work with component suppliers to choose parts.
• Schematic capture and bill of material generation with AltiumUse Mathcad and PSPICE tools for worse case analysis.
• Familiar with DFMEA's.Work with remote team members from the mechanical engineering and program management teams.
• Able to test products in the lab to characterize performance and root cause product issues.
• Familiar with automotive EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) tests
• Work with customers on conference calls and occasional on site trips.
• Occasional international travel to Nidec Mobility’s Ontario, Canada area.
• Expertise from automotive experience, specifically automotive switch design.
• Able to communicate product and product processes with customer
• Experience with LED-based white and color-mixing system design.
• Experience with color equipment and lighting measurement tools, including spectrometers and light sensors.
• Power circuit design, component selection, schematic capture, and circuit simulation.
• Power dissipation calculation, worst-case tolerance analysis, and design failure mode effect analysis.
• Electronics prototype construction and bench testing.
• EMC compliance and design verification testing / review.Experience with 8-bit / 16-bit microcontrollers.
• Experience with modeling CAD tools such as LTSpice or PSpice.
• EMC knowledge is a plus.
• Mechanical tooling experience is a plus.
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Project).
• Must be able to support / multi-task to manage multiple projects / issues at one time.
• Must have strong attention to detail and work with a sense of urgency / accuracy

For immediate consideration, please email Ron.Ehredt@Nidec.com

No Recruiters or Agency solicitation, please.