Electrical Engineer-Hardware Test

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This position is part of our Signal & Power Solutions segment; Connection Systems business unit.

Summary (About this Position):

The Aptiv Connection Systems Team is looking for an Electrical Engineer to join the North America Product Engineering Team in our Troy Technical Center in Troy, MI or Champion Technical Center in Champion, OH. The successful candidate will be a part of the Consumer Connectivity product portfolio. The Electrical Engineer will design, develop and validate electronic products aligned with business product portfolios to OEM requirements. The successful candidate will work with products requiring circuits such as switch mode power supplies, inverters, power switches, LVDS transceivers, HDMI receivers, USB hubs, embedded MCU, audio/video codecs and wireless communications links based on RF standards (e.g. 802.11n, Bluetooth, Qi, NFC, GSM).

Your Role (i.e. Key Job Responsibilities):

Work directly with automotive OEMs and other Tier 1 suppliers to design products that meet customer functional, EMC and electrical requirements

Develop product schematics using schematic capture software and oversee and/or create PCB layouts

Complete peer reviews and create change documentation for engineering changes

Develop new circuit building blocks and evaluate new components

Work with supply chain management to provide cost analysis of Bill of Material (BoM) and component cost tradeoffs

Negotiate design validation plan with the customer and manage its execution at test labs

Conduct detailed benchmarking, competitive and cost-tradeoff analysis for area of responsibility

Perform simulations, worst case circuit analysis, FMEAs, and similar systematic design analysis to verify robust performance

Perform bench level debugging, testing and prototyping

Provide risk assessment and perform root cause analysis of product performance deviations using standard practices (fault tree analysis, fishbone diagrams, 5-why, etc)

Complete steps and documentation as necessary for following Aptiv product development process flow

Work with validation team to assist in developing proper equipment and processes for Design Validation (DV) and Product Validation (PV) of product

Participate in design process audits for adherence to IATF process standards

Mentor other department Electrical Engineers in proper practices, industry standards and best practices

Ensure compliance with customer specific requirements

Create and conduct technical presentations to explain and sell new product designs

Support the cross-functional team including software engineering, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, ECAD, MCAD, manufacturing, quality and SCM

Your Required Background (i.e., Must Haves):

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Previous experience with embedded microcontroller design

1 - 4 years relevant electronics design experience and can demonstrate abilities

1 - 4 years' experience with analog/digital design and simulation experience; including, but not limited to: power supplies, filters, op-amps, vehicle communications (CAN & LIN), microprocessors, memory interfaces, high speed communications (I2C, SPI, UART, etc.)

Demonstrated knowledge of proper design methods to optimize for RFI, EMI and ESD to be compliant with automotive specifications

Experience with design validation and test planning

Previous experience with simulation and schematic capture tools

Previous experience using bench equipment including oscilloscopes, power supplies, DMMs, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, etc.

Demonstrated proficiency using Microsoft Office (i.e. Word, Project, Excel, Outlook, Teams, Visio, etc.).

Ability and willingness to travel as required

Strong results-orientation and exe