Hardware PCBA Design

DE Design Works is an engineering services firm specializing in napkin-sketch-to-production product development, with core competencies in embedded firmware, application software development, printed circuit board (PCBA) hardware design, quick-turn prototyping, IoT products, pre-certification testing, and production. DE has been in business since 2002. We strive to provide our customers with innovative, high-quality solutions through the deployment of cutting-edge technology and services that exceed the customer's expectations. Our customers range from small to large corporations that represent industrial, commercial, medical, and military market segments. Through the combined skillset of our engineering team, DE delivers robust designs pulling from hardware, software, systems, and mechanical disciplines.

About the Position

The successful engineer at DE Design Works enjoys working in a casual, collaborative team environment with other engineers and customers on a variety of product development projects. The engineer in this role will have the opportunity to work on customer products from varying industries including Industrial, Medical, and Military. Typical projects include custom designed hardware and software, wired and wireless communications technologies, control systems, and user interfaces.

This team member should be confident working independently or collaboratively on multiple projects with proven experience balancing priorities in a fast-paced setting. Often, this role will be given the authority as lead decision maker for architecting and designing embedded hardware. This is a great opportunity to work with the latest technology and a world-class team bringing products to life.

This position is not a remote position but does offer work-life flexibility working out of our Chesterfield, MO office. Relocation assistance may be available and US citizenship is required.

Responsibilities:

Lead electrical PCBA design projects and engineering efforts for a wide variety of industrial, medical, and military products in a collaborative, technology-focused environment of creative engineers. This will include but is not limited to the following:

• PCBA Architecture
• Circuit Design and Schematic Entry
• Critical Component Selection (including sourcing)
• PCBA Layout Oversight
• PCBA Board Bring-up and Troubleshooting - Oscilloscope experience

What is Needed to be Successful

Educational Requirements:

A minimum of a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering.

Specific Experience and Traits desired:

• The ideal candidate will be passionate about embedded PCB hardware design and problem-solving, self-starting, deadline-oriented, and committed to continuous improvement, research, and collaboration.
• Proven PCBA design experience is required
• Strong communication skills including with external customers

Technology Experiences to be considered by hiring team: high-speed PCB layout, BGA layout, high power, power supply design up to 10kW, BLDC/ACI/PMSM/PSM Axial Flux motor control PCB design up to 3kW, analog control circuits and sensors, Op-Amps, filters, ESD/RFI/EMC compliance, battery management control systems down to nano-Amps and up to 1kA, IoT RF chip down and modules Wi-Fi/BLE/LoRa/HaLow/Mesh/LTE/GNSS/RFID, optimal grounding and isolation techniques for RF and power, power circuit simulation, methods of design for manufacturing and test. Electromechanical robotics and vehicles, motion control, PID controls, battery/UPS/power conversion topologies. Advanced materials and processes, flex, rigid flex, organic and printed electronics, ISO quality management, source control, design for manufacturing. SAE, IEC, UL, CSA, ETL, MIL-STD, pre-FDA compliance. Troubleshooting complex hardware/firmware control systems. Test procedure development. Wired communication technologies such as UART, RS485, USB, I2C, SPI, Ethernet MII/RMII/GMII, MIPI, RGB LCD, A2B, netX90, ProfiNet, Ethernet/IP, CAN bus.