Electrical Engineer-Hardware Test

Aptiv Us Services General Partnership - Warren, OH

Full-time

Warren, OH

About the position

The Electrical Engineer-Hardware Test position at Aptiv is focused on designing, developing, and validating electronic products within the Consumer Connectivity product portfolio. The role involves collaboration with automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to ensure products meet functional, EMC, and electrical requirements. The successful candidate will engage in various engineering tasks, including circuit design, PCB layout oversight, and product validation, while also mentoring junior engineers and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with automotive OEMs and 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
• 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

Requirements

• 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