Senior Electrical Design Engineer (Switches)

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Job Summary

Job Description

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 lighting
• Knowledgeof microprocessors, voltage regulators, PTC's, relays, and power electronics.
• Work with component suppliers to choose parts.
• Schematiccapture and bill of material generation with Altium
• Use Mathcad and PSPICE tools for worse case analysis
• Familiar with DFMEA's.
• Work with remote team members from themechanical engineering and program management teams.
• Able to test products in the lab to characterize performance and root cause product issues.
• Familiar with automotiveEMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) tests
• Work with customers on conference calls and occasionalon 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.

Scope of Supervision: N/A

Travel Required: up to 10%

Physical Demand (Special Considerations): While performing the duties of this job, the employee consistently is required to use hands to handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to ten (10) pounds.

Keywords: electrical, engineer, design, electronic boxes, development, CAD, Altium, PSpice, electronics, power, automotive, color spectrum, mechatronics, PCB, circuit, prototype, "PCB Layout", DFMEA, "EMC Compliance", "Power Circuit Design", "3D Modeling", Hardware, Electrical, "Design Verification", "Design Verification Testing", PPAP, TALC, Blue Tag, power modules, power electronics, microprocessor

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

Additional Job Details

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