Staff Electrical Engineer - Hardware Design

About the position

Itron is a world-leading technology and services company dedicated to the resourceful use of energy and water. Itron is a $2B company with 3K employees in 58 world-wide locations supporting nearly 8,000 customers in more than 100 countries. As a smart grid metering market leader, Itron is about longevity. Our products last more than 20 years. As the industry leader, we have long-standing relationships with many of our clients, some of whom have been in business for more than a century. This mature industry, however, is undergoing revolutionary change. So you'll be working closely with communicative and cooperative clients to ensure our solutions meet their needs. And you'll be guiding the development of the new products and systems that will function for decades as the groundwork that makes the smart grid and a sustainable future a reality. Itron, Inc. has an immediate opening for a Staff Electrical Engineer - Hardware Design, at its West Union, SC facility to participate in the design of new products in the following applications: Software-defined wireless and powerline communications, Embedded computing for Edge Intelligence, Large-scale mesh networks, Solid-state electricity meters, Development of ASICs, IOT device.

Responsibilities

• Design, analyze and validate network circuit boards which contain MPU, MCU, NAND, LPDDRx, high speed peripherals, PMIC, clock and wireless circuitries.
• Work with manufacture engineering in defining the tests and fixtures requirement for board level functional verification, programming and final meter tests.
• Work closely with firmware and testing organization to debug Itron meter farm failure and customer return.
• Support design and projects in regulatory compliance, reliability analysis and testing and multi-source components selections.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• At least 5 years of hands-on design, analysis and validation experience on MPU, MCU, NAND, LPDDRx, high speed peripherals (USB, SDIO, QSPI etc.), LDOs, DC-DC regulators and Op-amps.
• Familiarity with schematics, layout and circuit simulation tools.
• Expertise with oscilloscope, logic analyzer and signal generator. Experience with using temperature chamber.
• Expertise in troubleshooting complicated and random circuitry issues.
• Good understanding of signal integrity and test automation is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Master degree in Electrical Engineering is preferred.