Job Summary
This role offers you the opportunity to join a world-class development team in the rapid growth market of IoT devices and smart home technology. As a Sr. Electronics Design and Development Engineer, you will be involved with new residential electronic lock development and improving existing products. As we continue to drive innovation Smart Home in the smart home ecosystem you will be an integral part of the development team that brings new concepts and technologies directly to customers. This is an ideal role for a hands-on engineer who is looking to make an impact, learn new skills and experience exciting career growth with an established and nimble industry leader.
The leading candidate has worked on problems and projects of diverse complexity and scope, exercised independent design judgment, within best practices, to identify and select a solution. You may act as a team leader providing technical leadership to other engineers on the project team, or you may act as one of several design engineers on a larger project team depending on specific skills and project requirements. It is important you can handle unique situations and know when to act and when to seek advice on complex business issues. Your ability to innovate and bring a new perspective to the project team will give you the opportunity to influence design architecture and design.
You will be working with a cross functional product development team: mechanical, electronics, firmware engineers, mobile applications and cloud developers, software/firmware testing team and non-technical team members.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
(40%) Responsible to develop electronic design solutions for New Product Introductions (NPI), new features or enhancements to existing products; inclusive of scope, architecture, design, develop, test and qualification, release to production and future support of solutions. (15%) Work with other technical and non-technical team members to take high level project requirements into technical requirement documents, design trade-offs, risk assessments, scope/schedule estimates, test and execution. (10%) Responsible for design integrity and quality: conduct design reviews, incorporate test/manufacturing DFx feedback to improve the design and complete all needed environmental and regulatory testing. (10%) Identify and implement cost reductions, component alternate sources and quality improvements for your designs. (5%) Work with PCBA and finished goods manufacturers to ensure design is ready for production, build prototypes and support cross functional teams. (5%) Coordinate and work with other designers and engineers to build project plans, schedules, and mitigation plans to meet projects’ goals (5%) Represent the team and organization with external partners, industry alliances and related events, and important customers. (5%) Report design/project progress, issues, risks, and possible solutions. (5%) Apply knowledge and learnings into new designs
Additional Duties and Responsibilities
Other duties as required by supervisor.
Education and Experience Profile
A bachelor's degree in Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) or a related field 5 years of related experience.Required Skills
Experience owning and delivering a hardware design through the entire product life cycle from requirements phase, architecture development, qualification, release to production and post launch support. A full understanding of common communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, etc. and troubleshooting practices for them A solid understanding of 8/16/32 bit microcontrollers electrical characteristics and design best practices. Successfully completed system bring up and integration as well as design validation for new product and existing products Experience with schematic capture and layout tools (Altium preferred), BOM/AVL management. Organized, able to multi-task and manage multiple projects simultaneously with varying degrees of complexity, priority and urgency. Experience working with other designers, firmware engineers, software developers to bring solutions to market. Strong sense of urgency and ownership of your deliverables. Strong communication to audiences of varying technical understanding, passionate about electronics, collaborative engagement with others but comfortable working independently. Excellent documentation practices Some travel is required
Additional Desired Skills
Experience in developing battery powered systems and techniques to measure, analyze and maximize battery life. Experience developing IoT products Familiarity with one or more of the following: Zwave, Zigbee, Homekit, Thread, BLE, WiFi Familiarity with Python or other scripting language in support of testing and automation.
Business Environment
ASSA ABLOY brings several decades of mechanical door lock expertise while incorporating electronics and wireless solutions over the past decade. We continue to release new products into the market with ZWave, Zigbee, Homekit, Bluetooth, WiFi or non-connected solutions. Some of the most recent introductions are Aura (Bluetooth Deadbolt), Premis Deadbolt (Apple Homekit), Obsidian (keyless Deadbolt) and others. The Smart Home and Internet-of-Things (IoT) are rapidly evolving and growing, ASSA ABLOY is positioned well with number one brands in North America to lead and continue the tradition of delivering valuable solutions to our customers. As part of a world-class Engineering team, you will play a critical role in the development of the new solutions that deliver our customers great new products with exceptional experiences.
Work Environment:
Working conditions are normal for an office environment.
Pay Range: $97,326-$142,745.
This “base salary range” is a reasonable estimate for this position at the time of posting. Pay within each range is based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, to primary work job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location. ASSA ABLOY conducts regular review of compensation ranges and therefore reserves the right to alter this range at any given time.
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
ASSA ABLOY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
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