Hardware Design Engineer

Happiest Minds, the Mindful IT Company, applies agile methodologies to enable digital transformation for enterprises and technology providers by delivering seamless customer experience, business efficiency and actionable insights. We leverage a spectrum of disruptive technologies such as: Big Data Analytics, AI & Cognitive Computing, Internet of Things, Cloud, Security, SDN-NFV, RPA, Blockchain, etc. Positioned as Born Digital . Born Agile , our capabilities spans across product engineering, digital business solutions, infrastructure management and security services. We deliver these services across industry sectors such as retail, consumer packaged goods, edutech, e-commerce, banking, insurance, hi-tech, engineering R&D, manufacturing, automotive and travel/transportation/hospitality.

Headquartered in Bangalore, India; Happiest Minds has operations in USA, UK, The Netherlands, Australia and Middle East.

Job Description:

• 10 to 15 years of relevant experience as a Hardware design and test engineer.
• Bachelor s degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or equivalent.
• Excellent problem-solving/ debugging skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Active involvement in all phases of an embedded product development (Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Prototyping, Documentation and Testing)
• Should be an expert in selecting components meeting cost, functionality, performance, regulatory and non-functional requirements such as long-term availability, size etc.
• Independently develop micro-controller and micro-processor-based designs with peripherals such as ADCs, DACs, storage, Ethernet PHYs etc
• Experience in/Knowledge of interfaces such as DDR3/4/5, PCIe Gen4 or higher, SATA, USB3.0/4.0, Ethernet, Display interfaces, Audio interfaces, SPI, I2C etc
• Proficient in developing Schematics using Cadence OrCAD tool
• Should be able to prepare the PCB layout guidelines and review the PCB layout using Cadence Allegro tool
• Experience in designing multi-layer PCBs considering EMI/EMC and signal integrity aspects
• Perform board bring-up tests, functional tests, and DVT
• Experience with hardware testing and debugging tools (e.g., Power Supply, Multimeter, Oscilloscopes, Logic analysers etc).

Good to have:

• Conduct pre-compliance screening tests for EMI/EMC/Safety etc at third party labs
• Perform reliability analysis such DFMEA, MTBF prediction, HALT testing, ESS testing etc
• Experience in high-speed designs (interfaces such as PCIe Gen 5/6, USB4.x, DDR5, 10G/100G Ethernet etc)
• Signal Integrity testing, compliance testing