Senior Hardware Engineer:

We are looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer for a reputable Information and Communications Technology (Smart Grid solutions) company located in Burnaby, BC.

Over the past 30 years, this company creatively developed technology that enhances the safety, security, reliability and efficiency of public power and electric cooperative utilities across North America!

As the Senior Hardware Engineer, you will be reporting to the Director of Hardware, and you will be working closely with a multidisciplinary team of engineers and designers to complete product development, maintenance of line and research tasks throughout the full product life cycle process for volume manufacturing of wireless endpoint and modem products used within the utility marketplace.

There are about 80 employees at the Burnaby location, but you will be working closely with about 5-8 team members. This is a full-time, Monday to Friday permanent role on site (in the lab).

This company offers a generous salary with opportunities for advancement.

What our client offers :

• $100k to $120k yearly with 3 weeks of vacation
• Great benefits package : 80-100% on extended health, 50-90% on dental, $300 on vision, 100% Employee Assistant Program and $300-800 on health spending account
• public company ability to get equity
• Hypergrowth company with large expansion plans
• Room for advancement
• A green technology company with an exciting product
• benefits starts day one!

Your tasks as the Senior Hardware Engineer :

• Working with the Product Development and Hardware team specifically, to analyze and identify design requirements for minimum viable product and forward looking for complete feature set.
• Ownership of delivery and support of robust hardware in embedded microcontroller systems including RF, analog, mixed signal and high current load control elements.
• Thermal design considerations for heat extraction from product level enclosures housing electronics.
• Rapid prototyping for early design debugging and verification of product requirements.
• Designs which incorporate principles of design for manufacturability and test.
• System integration and commercial release validation activities.
• Interaction with test labs for regulatory compliance as they relate to submissions for wireless, utility and safety regulatory bodies.
• Sustainability of commercially released product
• Sourcing and qualifying alternate components through data sheet analysis and test verification
• Updating schematic and layout with ECO processes
• Field RF propagation testing

Qualifications :

• At least 8 years of experience as a Senior Hardware Engineer within manufacturing (ideally electronics / industrial manufacturing)
• At least 8 years of experience (not counting co-op experience) in hardware design roles for embedded microcontroller systems and hardware design (memory and data conversion)
• Experience with
• Design of analog / mixed signal circuitry, and linear and switching power supplies in embedded microcontroller systems.
• Thermal analysis and heat sinking, extracting heat from enclosures housing heat sources.
• Testing of designed or maintained products for compliance or continued compliance to regulatory standards and submission of test reports to regulatory bodies for approval.
• Providing advance insight to firmware developers on the control mechanisms required for performing hardware validation.
• Use of CAD software for schematic capture and PCB layout.
• Use of circuit analysis simulation tools such as LTspice to minimize hardware prototype iterations.

BRBC