Drimva

Hitachi

Hardware Engineer

Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States · Full-time · Posted May 1, 2024

Experience
0–3 years of hands-on experience in an automotive ECU design and development environment.
Education
BS/MS in electrical engineering with appropriate coursework focus.

About the job

Designs, develops, tests, and supports automotive electronic control unit (ECU) hardware from requirements through production.

What you'll do

  • Analyze requirements and create or modify hardware designs, including schematics and PCB layouts.
  • Simulate, verify, and test analog and digital hardware; develop test specifications and coordinate their execution.
  • Support manufacturing releases, investigate product issues, and contribute to root-cause analysis and corrective actions.

What they ask for

  • Thorough understanding of analog and digital hardware for automotive control systems and EMC specifications and mitigation.
  • Ability to use laboratory test equipment and read and create electrical schematics and engineering drawings.
  • Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer or an equivalent toolchain, and circuit simulation using LTSpice or similar SPICE-based tools.
  • Fluent written and verbal English communication.

Nice to have

  • Previous use of MathCAD for Worst Case Analysis.
  • Use of Vector CAN toolchain.

Tools

MathCAD, CAN, LIN, RS-232, USB, SENT, Ethernet, SERDES

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