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# Hardware Engineer

- **Company:** Perry Weather
- **Location:** Dallas, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, Altium Designer, Automation of Tests, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Engineering, Datasheets, Embedded C, Linux on Embedded Systems, Ethernet, Firmware, Hardware Design, Hardware Platform Interface, Python (Programming Language), Modbus, Schematic Capture, Systems Integration, Pcb Layout, U-Boot
- **Published:** October 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2c1f0867a088c82f

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.
 * 5-7 years of hands-on electrical/hardware engineering, ideally on field-deployed products.
 * Real experience in Altium Designer (or similar) for schematic capture and PCB layout - this should be work you've shipped, not coursework.
 * Comfort verifying board designs against fab constraints: controlled impedance, differential pairs, power trace sizing.
 * Experience selecting components from datasheets, including sourcing alternates under supply constraints.
 * Working knowledge of power electronics fundamentals: regulation, load switching, battery/solar-powered system design.
 * Practical familiarity with I²C, RS-485/Modbus, and Ethernet/IP at the level of integrating a real device, not just protocol theory.
 * Bench instrumentation skills: oscilloscope, DMM, electronic load, and comfort measuring current/voltage under dynamic or switched load.
 * Experience with root-cause analysis on returned or field-failed hardware.
 * Direct experience working with contract manufacturers or PCB fab houses (DFM/DFT, build readiness, process improvement).

Nice to Have

 * Familiarity with embedded C/C++ and embedded Linux (U-Boot, device tree, board bring-up) - useful for reading firmware well enough to help isolate whether a failure is hardware or firmware, not for owning the codebase.
 * Exposure to OTA update/bootloader concepts.
 * Experience with cellular modems (Quectel or similar).
 * Basic scripting (Python) for test automation or tooling.
 * Exposure to outdoor/ruggedized enclosure design, solar/battery systems, or safety-critical/regulated hardware.

## Description

Perry Weather builds field-deployed weather monitoring and outdoor warning hardware -lightning detection, weather sensors, sirens, and strobe warning units. These units run unattended on solar and battery power through extreme weather, and when something fails, it fails at a customer site, not on a bench.

We're hiring an Electrical Engineer to join and contribute to the hardware platform: PCB verification and manufacturing readiness, component sourcing and obsolescence management, power system design, and root-cause investigation when field hardware misbehaves., * Schematic capture & PCB layout execution. Work in Altium Designer on new revisions and design changes under the Staff Engineer's architectural review - not from a blank sheet, but with real ownership of the layout and component placement.

 * Impedance & DFM verification. Confirm controlled-impedance nets (e.g. USB differential pairs at 90Ω, Ethernet at 100Ω) against fab documentation, and manage the CM / Fab House submission and review process - including catching placement/conversion errors in PnP/CPL files before they become a bad board run.
 * Component sourcing & BOM management. When parts go obsolete or out of stock, find and validate drop-in or near-equivalent replacements (electrical spec + footprint), and keep the BOM current as revisions ship.
 * Power system design. Prototype and characterize 12V/24V power architectures, select load-switch/eFuse ICs for new switched rails, and run battery/solar runtime characterization (current draw across operating modes, worst-case load estimation).
 * Protocol-level hardware integration. Bring new sensors and peripherals onto the Custom PCB Carrier through its approved expansion interfaces - GPIO, Modbus RS-485, I²C, and Ethernet/IP - working within the platform's defined GPIO/bus budget rather than requesting ad hoc hardware revisions.
 * Field hardware RCA. Reproduce field-reported hardware issues (siren/strobe not clearing, speaker output degradation, sensor readings out of range) on the bench using scopes, DMMs, and electronic loads/shunts, isolate root cause, and drive the fix into the next design or manufacturing revision.
 * Manufacturing process improvement. Own discrete process problems end-to-end - e.g. grounding/ESD compliance fixes on the line, reducing manual bottlenecks in assembly/configuration steps, and building out the automated manufacturing test fixture (hardware harness + pass/fail criteria) the team doesn't have yet.