What are the responsibilities and job description for the Applications Hardware Engineer position at Acara Solutions, An Aleron Company?
As the Senior Applications Hardware Engineer, you will drive the development of both internal and customer facing evaluation hardware.
This role will work with our software development team, our design engineering team and our field engineering team to satisfy internal and customer needs for low friction solutions to evaluate our SoC performance and power.
The successful candidate should have strong experience with PCB development for battery operated consumer electronics devices. Experience with wearable devices is a definite plus. The candidate must have experience with developing for and debugging on ARM based platforms, and should have experience with low-power designs.
The person in this role will involve debugging device level issues on our SoCs, supporting our field engineers for customer issues with their components and boards, and supporting customer facing documentation such as Application Notes and Hardware Design Guidelines.
Responsibilities
- PCB hardware architecture, design, development, and testing
- Collaborate with internal engineering and validation teams to analyze and debug complex system level issues and develop solutions
- Bridge the communication between field and engineering teams for field issues and manage issue status tracking
- Assist with the design, debug, and testing of embedded microcontroller software drivers, algorithms, application code, board support packages, automated scripts, and design test cases to provide the required functionality to end customers
- Develop manufacturing test procedures and hardware for board builds overseas
- Create application notes, knowledgebase articles, and hardware design guidelines
- Assist customers with the use of SDK and hardware platforms
Requirements
- MS in ECE and 3-5 years of experience or BS ECE with 4-6 years of experience
- Experience with hardware architecture design, component placement, layout, manufacturing test, system bring-up and testing.
- Experience designing PCB schematics and layout using Altium Designer, Cadence, or similar PCB design software
- Familiarity with MCU peripherals including SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, MIPI, USB, I2S and PDM is a plus.
- Experience with controlled impedance and high-speed interface PCB layout
- Experience working hands-on in the lab and using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
- Excellent problem-solving skills dealing with complex system level issues related to HW/SW debug
- Experience with at least one MCU IDE from ARM, Keil, IAR, Eclipse or other is a plus
