Hardware Engineer

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is the Japanese subsidiary of a specialized audio manufacturer headquartered in Europe and the United States.
We are a world leader in the manufacture of high quality audio and electronics products for the automotive, home, and professional markets. With several well-known brands, we operate in three main segments: Automotive, Consumer, and Professional.
For automakers, we provide audio and infotainment systems for vehicles, and audio and video systems for home and mobile applications. In addition, we also produce loudspeakers and electronic systems for professional use in concert halls and stadiums. Since our inception, we have continued to innovate.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

• The HW SME for amplifiers plays a pivot role in the Car Audio Strategic Business Units. The business unit markets, designs, engineers, and manufactures advanced audio amplifiers, speakers, and microphones for most of the OEMs
• You will interact with customers around the globe, engineering centers globally, Program Managers, and other stakeholders to develop Car Audio products.
• You will be involved in the design review of HW work products following the project lifecycle. Some examples are Customer Requirements Analysis, Design Verification plan, HW Block Diagram, Schematics, DFMEA & DRBFM, Worst Case Circuit Analysis, PCB Layout, Design Verification, etc.
• You will hold a centric position during the request for quotations by technically leading the HW portion of the concept freeze and concept approval in RFQ and RFI. It includes specifications review, HW architecture, effort estimation, and stakeholder’s alignment.
• You will mediate in deep technical HW issues between the customers, suppliers and engineering centers. It requires the coordination, definition, troubleshooting and communication of critical issues to the stakeholders.
• You will participate in advance development projects (ADP) with special impact to customer products and HW platforms. 

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• 5 or more years of experience in HW development for automotive embedded systems.
• Experience with HW design tools, such as Cadence/OrCAD, Pspice, Mentor Graphics, MathCAD, etc. and testing tools like, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, power supplies, audio analyzer, etc.
• Familiar with HW embedded systems around SoC, MCU, and DSP, using electronic communication busses such as A2B, CAN, AVB, I2C, SPI, etc.
• Knowledge of audio products in automotive applications.
• Fluent communication in Japanese and English

Preferred qualifications:

• Hands-on electronics system debug experience.
• Following experience preferred.
• Automotive CAN
• Automotive EAVB
• Automotive A2B
• AUTOSAR
• Ability to use common electronic trouble-shooting tools such as oscilloscopes, CAN log trace tools, current clamps, spectrum analyzers, soldering iron, etc preferred.
• Embedded system software development in C/C++ and model-based familiarity desired

Salary

10 - 13 million yen

Location

Aichi