Hardware Design Engineer

Experience Required:
The candidate should have experience in some or all of the following areas: 

 	
Low-power circuit design, DC/DC converters, power management methods, and analogue design and mixed-signal board-level design. 
 	
Processor architecture, digital circuit design and embedded systems. 
 	
Sourcing, evaluating & selecting components for new & established designs
 	
Various communications protocols such as I2C, UART, SPI, USB. 
 	
Familiarity with RF technology  - antenna design, impedance matching, performance tuning of RF circuits – 345MHz, 433MHz, 868MHz, 2.4GHz
 	
Experience integrating RF technologies such as Zigbee, Zwave, WIFI, BlueTooth.  
 	
Leading and driving design development from schematic capture, PCB layout through assembly, and test house validation 
 	
Robust designs for ESD/EMI immunities and RF de-sensitisation. 
 	
Partnering with software teams to define and implement firmware, drivers and algorithms 

Additional Requirements:
 The Successful candidate should also:

 	
Have an honours degree, or post graduate qualification, in Electronic Engineering 
 	
6+ years of experience in consumer product design, including circuit design, component engineering, integration, embedded systems, and debugging
 	
Have strong leadership skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders across multiple disciplines
 	
Have strong communication and documentation skills and ability to operate autonomously 
 	
Have a good understanding of manufacturing process including DFM and DFT for consumer products
 	
Have a good working knowledge of the technical concepts involved in the development of products and processes