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# Hardware Lead

- **Company:** Pi-Square Technologies LLC
- **Location:** Novi, MI, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $92,300.0 - $166,850.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, JIRA, Network Analysis, Software Debugging, Ethernet, Serial ATA, Hardware Description Language, LTspice, Mathcad, OrCAD, PCI Express, ISO/IEC 15504, Schematic Capture, Signal Integrity, Software Requirements Analysis, Subversion, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, USB, High Performance Computing, Serial Peripheral Interface, DOORS (Software)
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us6afc56851a4fcd5a53079b6278bf8f49

## About the Role

* Experience with Automotive Tier-1 suppliers and OEM programs.
 * Exposure to Functional Safety (ISO 26262), ASPICE and Software Defined Vehicle platforms.
 * Strong cross-functional leadership and project management skills.

## Description

* Define hardware architecture for automotive compute platforms.
 * Translate customer and system requirements into hardware specifications.
 * Develop Hardware Software Interface Specifications.
 * Lead schematic capture, circuit design, component selection and qualification.
 * Support multi-layer high-speed PCB design and reviews.
 * Perform Signal Integrity (SI), Power Integrity (PI), Timing and Worst Case Circuit Analysis (WCCA).
 * Lead board bring-up, debugging and root cause analysis.
 * Execute functional validation, EMI/EMC, environmental and burn-in testing.
 * Drive design reviews, technical governance and product release.
 * Coordinate with software, mechanical, PCB, vendors and customer teams.
 * Mentor engineering teams and lead customer technical discussions.

Required Technical Skills

 * ADAS, Digital Cockpit, Connected Cars, Infotainment (IVI), High Performance Compute (HPC)
 * Qualcomm SA8775P/SA8797P, NXP S32K388, Renesas RH850, Freescale i.MX6, TI processors, Intel Atom/Apollo Lake
 * DDR3/DDR4, PCIe, SATA, USB, Ethernet, CAN, LIN, UART, SPI, I2C, FPD-Link, GMSL
 * Mentor DxDesigner, Expedition PCB, Cadence Concept HDL, ORCAD CIS, HyperLynx, LTspice, DOORS, Mathcad, JIRA, SVN


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