Embedded Hardware Engineer - II

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving sophisticated analytical challenges, delivering efficiency in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global teams of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an outstanding combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com

Providing outstanding product development services to Thermo Fisher scientific global business units, is one of the essential functions of the India Engineering Center (IEC). This global research and development center, established in 2009, located at HiTech City, Hyderabad, with over 150 employees. We are a team committed to develop innovative and groundbreaking technologically sophisticated products ranging from laboratory equipment, analytical instruments, remote monitoring solutions, chromatography and mass spectrometry. We are proud of the work that we do at IEC thereby fulfilling our mission of making the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place:

Ideal candidate will help bring ownership for a design de-risking of PCBA which may need refresh driven by aging design or supply chain issues. In this position, candidate will work closely with global sites to ensure that Change Management within this portfolio achieves a maturity. Will ensure right design metrics are followed.

The Embedded Hardware Engineer - II is a professional level member of a global R&D Team. The role is of a hands-on Electrical/Electronic engineer who is motivated & technically competent of the new product design and update of existing products. The person will play key role in demonstrating engineering knowledge to assist team in its PCBA Risk Mitigation strategy.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As part of a multi-functional development team, major responsibility will include driving PCBA Risk mitigation strategy and execution of projects for Electronics commodities on product level.

• Responsible for technical delivery of all Electrical & Electronics related projects. Design and conceptualise to ensure the technical quality of actions.
• Own & Implement technically sophisticated projects right from scoping to implementation
• Should have good knowledge on the compliance requirement & should support product regulatory compliance testing.
• Proficient to synthesise specifications of electronic components into product fitment.
• Work with cross function team to understand customer requirement, participate in system / subsystem design review, finalize electronics design requirement by reviewing with systems & global engineering teams
• Design schematic of digital, mix signal & power electronics circuit board that satisfied the design requirement
• Agility to work on multiple simultaneous projects, tasks & programs to suit business needs
• Provide Plan A, Plan B. Drive design options & tradeoff analysis meeting diverse product requirements.
• Build the design documents for design review (HLD, DFMEA, requirements traceability matrix etc.), and verification plan mapping to the key performance & reliability requirement.
• Verify the design performance qualifying requirements, meeting Manufacturability and Serviceability, and achieve the cost/reliability target.
• Collaborate closely with multi-domain teams assisting product development meeting regulatory, safety, environmental, reliability, thermal and interface standard (Ethernet, USB, etc.) compliance requirements.
• To work with the sourcing team and the supplier to coordinate the manufacturing and provide detailed requirement for FCT of PCBA to make sure the PCBA from production line can meet design requirement.

• Excellent understanding of Electrical and Electronics Engineering fundamentals
• Ability to drive decision through design and simulation tools. Mentor different tools and intent with hands-on experience
• Can conceptualize design architectures & identify challenges in designs.
• Applies self-learning to derive component functioning
• Independently conceptualize and run design calculations to prove design
• Collaborate & drive concepts, trade off analysis and leads component selection to meet the technical specifications
• Actively contribute to design analysis and simulation ensuring design optimization and confirmation to requirements
• Conduct testing as per test plans (including functional and regulatory test cases). Record test results
• Capture Schematic based on design document and input.
• Build design documents & artifacts as per design process
• Ability to efficiently work on the below tasks with mentorship

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical / Electronic Engineering with proven track of over 6 years
• Knowledge of any Circuit design and Simulation tools.
• Handle Low to medium complexity projects independently with ability to provide mentorship to early talent.
• Build work breakdown structure (WBS) of projects with support from senior project managers
• Engage with project multi-functional teams for reviews to seek inputs under the guidance of Program & design managers
• This is an equal opportunity position

• Acquaintance in Project Management
• C/C++ Embedded Programming
• Basic understanding of FPGA based Design and programming using HDL