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# Hardware Design Engineer

- **Company:** Avance Consulting
- **Location:** Wixom, MI, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, Software Debugging, Hardware Design, Software Reliability Testing, Signal Integrity, Software Requirements Analysis, Verification and Validation (Software), Test Scripts
- **Published:** August 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/74480711-hardware-design-engineer

## About the Role

Essential Skills: Lead automotive electronic hardware development from concept through production.

## Description

* Design analog, digital, power-supply, communication, sensor-interface, and microcontroller-based circuits.
 * Perform component selection considering performance, automotive qualification, reliability, availability, lifecycle, and cost.
 * Review and guide PCB placement, routing, stack-up, grounding, shielding, thermal management, signal integrity, and power integrity.
 * Perform circuit simulations, worst-case analysis, tolerance analysis, derating analysis, power-budget analysis, and design calculations.
 * Conduct hardware design reviews and ensure timely closure of technical findings.
 * Develop and maintain the Bill of Materials and support component obsolescence management.
 * Support prototype development, board bring-up, integration, debugging, and functional testing.
 * Define hardware verification and validation plans, test specifications, acceptance criteria, and test reports.
 * Support EMC, ESD, electrical transient, environmental, vibration, thermal, and reliability testing.
 * Investigate design, manufacturing, validation, and field issues using structured root-cause analysis.
 * Coordinate with system, software, mechanical, optics, validation, manufacturing, supplier, and customer teams.
 * Support design-for-manufacturing, design-for-testability, design-for-reliability, and production-launch activities.
 * Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior hardware engineers and offshore teams.
 * Support technical discussions, estimates, planning, customer reviews, and delivery commitments., * Translate customer and system requirements into hardware requirements, architecture, block diagrams, schematics, and detailed design documentation.
 * Design analog, digital, power-supply, communication, sensor-interface, and microcontroller-based circuits.
 * Perform component selection considering performance, automotive qualification, reliability, availability, lifecycle, and cost.
 * Review and guide PCB placement, routing, stack-up, grounding, shielding, thermal management, signal integrity, and power integrity.
 * Perform circuit simulations, worst-case analysis, tolerance analysis, derating analysis, power-budget analysis, and design calculations.
 * Conduct hardware design reviews and ensure timely closure of technical findings.
 * Develop and maintain the Bill of Materials and support component obsolescence management.
 * Support prototype development, board bring-up, integration, debugging, and functional testing.
 * Define hardware verification and validation plans, test specifications, acceptance criteria, and test reports.
 * Support EMC, ESD, electrical transient, environmental, vibration, thermal, and reliability testing.
 * Investigate design, manufacturing, validation, and field issues using structured root-cause analysis.
 * Coordinate with system, software, mechanical, optics, validation, manufacturing, supplier, and customer teams.
 * Support design-for-manufacturing, design-for-testability, design-for-reliability, and production-launch activities.
 * Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior hardware engineers and offshore teams.
 * Support technical discussions, estimates, planning, customer reviews, and delivery commitments.


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