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Job description
Eaton Electrical is hiring a Senior Hardware Engineer — a full-time, based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu role. Apply directly on Eaton Electrical's careers page below.
Senior Engineer - Hardware
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND, 600119
Department: Engineering
Work Location: onsite
What you’ll do:
We are seeking a motivated individual with strong skills in Electronics - Board design. Should have prior experience in New product development, integration, testing and validation. Requires effective collaboration, a strong drive to achieve project objectives, and the ability to learn new techniques, tools, and processes for the product development cycle.
This role is to work in a team of hardware engineers in the delivery of a mix of products ranging from low volume, high value industrial products, to high volume intrisically safe isolators/barriers. The role will include hands on design work. The ideal candidate will have experience of both high and low volume product development, with the corresponding relative focus on R&D vs manufacturing cost. A mix of experience of both analog and digital electronic development for regulated markets requiring standards adherence and certification would be beneficial.
The candidate in this position will be responsible to:
- Design and developing new products confirming required standards and to customer specific requirements.
Capturing, specifying and managing design requirements. Undertake and/or supervise verification and validation of new product designs. - Should have good knowledge of FSM standard IEC 61508
- Working exposure on Softwares like Altium, Allegro, OrCAD, Cadence.
- Ensuring that Design to Cost, Design for Manufacture and Design for Test best practices are followed.
- In depth experience in the Micro Controller / Processor based design.
- Should be in a position to have better communication with other stake holders such as Firmware / Software / Mechanical team to drive the Project forward.
- Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
- Develop detailed project plans, schedules, and budgets.
- Ensuring clear communication and alignmen with the wider team.
- Monitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies.
- Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance team environment
- A Six-Sigma background would be valuable, DFSS/ Green Belt Certification preferred.
Qualifications:
Education- B.E/B.Tech or M.E/M.Tech in Electronics Engineering
Experience- 8 to 10 Years
Skills:
- Board design & development, Analog and digital electronics, Hardware design life cycle management, Component selections, Testing and debugging, Micro controller based design experience and High speed design experience is a plus.
- Drive for Results, Passionate, Collaborative, Excellent written and verbal communication skills needed & with Digital Mindset
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