Senior hardware design engineer

With around 20,000 employees based at 60 locations worldwide, our client is a global leader in the design and manufacture of automotive components, with products ranging from transmission systems through to electronics and sensors.

 

They urgently require a senior hardware design engineer to work in their Irish RD facility in County Kerry.

Role
 

·         Specify, document and develop electronic hardware solutions to control and interface the company’s range of automotive components with the customers vehicles and systems.

·         Develop unit and integration level test plans and perform associated testing both on bench and in target applications

·         Implementation of hardware designs to automotive quality expectations utilizing existing development environments and processes

·         Responsibility for creation of detailed hardware requirements documentation based on customer and internal specifications, reviews and clarifications

·         Interface as required with external development partners

·         Support meetings internally and with customers to discuss test plans and test issues

·         Role will involve 6 month secondment to Germany for initial training and development.

Requirements

 

Essential
 

·         Min 10 years experience in electronic design in an automotive environment

·         BSc. degree in electrical/electronic engineering or equivalent

·         Experience with 8-bit ST Microelectronics processors

·         Knowledge of EMC requirements, testing and compliance 

·         Experience of PCB design, Analog and Digital circuitry.

·         Knowledge of CAN LIN Bus vehicle communications

·         Ability to understand development from requirements through to unit and integration test

·         Experience of working with external development resources

·         Ability to translate customer specific requirements into technical specifications

·         Excellent communications and organisational skills

·         Knowledge and experience of ISO TS 16949 compliance

 

Desirable
 

·         MSc. in electrical/electronic engineering or equivalent

·         Experience of PSpice circuit simulation and Protel schematic design

·         Knowledge of embedded software development in Automotive environment

·         I2C-Bus and SPI bus protocol experience desirable

·         German language an advantage