Principal Product Engineer - Electronics

Location: Livonia, MI, us

Company Description

North Star Staffing Solutions is a full lifecycle recruiting company for clients based nationwide. We specialize in placing experienced candidates in industries such as Accounting/Banking, Finance, Manufacturing, IT, Aerospace, Agriculture/Environmental, Biotech and Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Construction, Engineering, Healthcare, Hospitality, Legal, Restaurant/Food Services, Sales/Marketing, and Telecommunications.

Job Description

The engineer will work in the Body Control Systems (BCS) organization designing and developing Automotive Switches, Steering Column Control Modules, and Steering Angle Sensors. This role will entail working in a matrix organization interfacing with mechanical engineering, software engineering, suppliers, purchasing, manufacturing, test engineering and sales as well as,

• Supporting all phases of the product development life cycle.
• Daily technical design and support of automotive switches, steering column control modules and steering angle sensors.
• Generate schematics, BOMs and layouts
• Analysis of circuit and system performance
• Develop circuit and system test plans and processes
• Work with TRW technical sub-suppliers
• Support customer quotations
• Customer and system requirements analysis
• Worst case analysis
• Interface control documents
• DFMEAs

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years experience with state of the art, automotive real time micro-controller based systems.
• Experience working in product development with a preferred focus on electronics and module design.
• Strong analytical background for detailed circuit design, experience with 8 / 16 / 32 bit microcontrollers, safety critical tolerant design, and electronic test / debugging.
• Experience with computer aided schematic capture preferably Mentor Graphics DxDesigner.
• Experience with circuit simulation tools, preferably Mentor Graphics System Vision.
• Experience with design analysis and modeling tools to perform electronics worst case circuit design analysis. Knowledge of laboratory tools for performing product analysis and testing.
• Knowledge of automotive electronics manufacturing processes preferred.
• Experience with micro controller based systems
• Mentor Graphics or other schematic capture tools
• Switches background/Spanish speaking is a plus!

Additional Information

If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, we encourage you to explore how you can make a difference by applying now. 

Contact: Jennifer Lau