Hardware Interface Engineer

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Job Summary:

The Hardware Interface Engineer is responsible to create and maintain hardware interface requirements between ECUs, sensors and actuators, support technical reviews with hardware suppliers to ensure compatibility to the interfaces and drive hardware interfaces consolidation and harmonization across the whole Client.

The main job responsibilities will be:

• Create and maintain HWI (Hardware Interface) Documents for ECUs and its direct-wired sensors and actuators.
• The HWI documents define the electrical interface type (e.g. LSD, HSD, Half-Bridge, Analog Input, etc), all the relevant electrical characteristics and requirements of the hardware interface up to including reference circuitry to ensure compatibility between the devices.
• Collect existing interface requirements, analyse them and propose harmonization and standardization of the hardware interfaces used by Client.
• Support Tech Review & Design Review with Suppliers and Component owners to ensure compliance with the hardware interface requirements.
• Work with component owners and suppliers for successful implementation of the HWI.
• Work with the Electrical Architecture team for specifying hardware interfaces for all architecture components.
• Analyse hardware interface issues observed during validation and propose solutions.
• Stay abreast with hardware interface technologies advancements and drive updates/evolutions to HWI documents accordingly.
• Promote the sharing of knowledge, and overall growth of the technical capability of the electrical architecture team thru trainings and other technical material explanations and presentations.
• Relentlessly drive to early life cycle delivery through an agile approach.
• Develop a culture of collaboration, diversity, and inclusion.
• Willing to take action and drive results.

Basic Qualifications

• BSEE or MSEE degree from an ABET accredited university.
• 3+ years of experience in automotive electrical (architecture, systems and/or hardware).
• 1+ years analog and digital electronic circuit hardware development experience.
• 1+ years' experience of ECU hardware designs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Proficient use of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent) from an ABET accredited university.
• Experience or background in the development of vehicle electronic architectures.
• Experience using tools such as PSPICE.

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