Senior Embedded Hardware Engineer - Wireless Sensor & IoT

NanoFlex Power - Ann Arbor, MI

Full-time - Mid Level

Ann Arbor, MI

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

NanoFlex Power Corporation is a technology company commercializing revolutionary new solar cell technologies developed with the University of Michigan and University of Southern California. We are seeking a diligent, experienced electrical engineering professional with a history of successful PCB and embedded system design. This individual will engage in product development as NanoFlex moves towards commercialization of its products for use in IoT sensors and a variety of thin film solar applications. The Senior Embedded Hardware Engineer will report to the VP of Engineering and will be responsible for driving product engineering of innovative solar-powered IoT platforms and services.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and iterate existing design of PCBs that utilize sensors, opportunistic cloud communication, and charging via NanoFlex solar modules.
• Drive innovation of sensor product engineering to optimize sensor layout, power management, and data transmission frequency.
• Interface with software engineering team and supply chain partners for optimal communication with gateway.
• Based on customer feedback, incorporate new sensing applications and radio technologies into hardware/firmware design.
• Some travel to national customers to better understand users and use cases.
• Through regularly reviewed projects, work with development team to design, manufacture, test, analyze, and report on PCB designs and performance.
• Work closely with OPV team to inform solar module designs.
• Summarize and communicate experimental results and analysis with development team on a weekly basis.
• Set up initial engineering documentation systems inclusive of product design and quality specifications in conformance with a total quality management system.
• Stay on the cutting edge of current technology. Benchmark competitor technologies and help develop roadmaps for gaining competitive advantage.
• Support preparation of intellectual property development, filings, grant proposals, and grant reporting.

Requirements

• BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or other relevant field. MS and/or industry experience a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to design and create circuits of power supplies, voltage protection, and protocol interfaces.
• Experience designing and developing solutions for IoT embedded systems, including designing, building, testing, debugging firmware for low power embedded sensors and application interface electronics.
• Experience with major PCB CAD design software.
• Experience with wireless firmware development such as BLE, Zigbee, LoRaWAN, Wi-Fi.
• Experience in hardware/software co-design, and strong interest in developing software stacks, tools, programming models and APIs for new hardware.
• Proven record of collaboration with product development team to ensure satisfaction of system functional, physical, and operational requirements and compliance with all requisite standards.
• Previous work with potential manufacturers to develop supply chain and move from prototype to commercialized product.
• Record of communicating issues and openly identifying risk; proactively engaging to propose and implement solutions to identified problems.
• Demonstrated peripheral vision; working on specific projects, but with wider applications in mind.
• History of accomplishing development initiatives within time and budget constraints while demonstrating innovative solutions.
• Literate, communicative, customer-friendly, team oriented and flexible.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Fringe benefits
• Stock options package