Hardware Engineer (India) Jobs

Position Title: Hardware Engineer – India

Experience: BE/BTECH/ME/MTECH/PhD Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent with 3-7 years relevant experience required, ME or PhD considered in lieu of experience

Location: Bengaluru, India (Currently work from home, NuCurrent India office in Future)

Role Description: NuCurrent is looking for an Electrical Engineer with a Hardware focus who is motivated to work closely with a talented and diverse engineering group to drive electrical hardware design, system integration with software and mechanical, and test to deliver end customer products. The candidate will work very closely with senior electrical hardware, electromagnetics, software, and mechanical engineers as well as external engineering partner teams to design and bring custom boards up from scratch, and exhibit strong cultural values that put the customer first, go beyond the standard, show strong ownership, innovate further, and show strong people skills.

Company Description: NuCurrent is a leading technology and IP company in the high growth field of wireless power and is the go-to provider of wireless power solutions for the world’s leading product companies. Spanning across industries including automotive, consumer, industrial, IoT, mobile, wearables and more, NuCurrent designs systems and key components for Fortune 500 companies and other industry leaders to enable wireless power transfer in new product releases. The Company supports product teams within large companies to bring wireless power innovations to market faster, with fewer risks, lower costs and better technology, while pushing the boundaries of system performance, charge speed, user flexibility and form factors. NuCurrent is a fabless technology company with a robust network of certified manufacturers and is an active leader in specification development across multiple industry standards bodies. NuCurrent has an energetic, purpose-driven work environment built by phenomenal people who go beyond expectations, are highly curious, deeply innovative and, above all, put customers first.

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

• Interact with key customers to integrate NuCurrent’s solution
• Support customer and internal team meetings in the USA morning time (p.m. in India)
• Extensive contribution to design choices, as well as significant hands-on bring-up and troubleshooting will be required
• Work with cross-functional engineering team to lead Wireless Power projects to success, gaining practical hands-on simulation, design, validation, and troubleshooting experience
• Engage with external Engineering Services partners to lead hardware development efforts
• Develop wireless power systems and modules for a diversity of applications, including consumer electronics, industrial devices, automotive industry applications, medical applications and other exciting industries.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with engineering team to translate product requirements into engineering deliverables.
• Design use of simulation tools such as SPICE (or equivalent) for circuits, mathematical analysis and test environment scripting using Matlab (or equivalent), and Schematic and PCB layout using Altium.
• Development will include extensive hands-on testing with RF boards developed either in-house or by partners/customers, using oscilloscopes, VNA’s and other test equipment.
• Work with Internal and External team to develop the wireless power solution for the customer.
• Contribute to the development of Intellectual Property.
• Execute the design and development of wireless power systems for a variety of projects in parallel.
• Work and adhere to project timelines to deliver on-time prototypes, test results, and documentation to customers.
• Brief the company management on a regular basis on achievements and goals.

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Strong written & verbal communications skills, and good interpersonal skills
• Relentless and enterprising approach to solving problems
• Passion for working with and developing hardware, including electrical PCBs
• Demonstrated success in resolution of technical challenges leveraging strong problem-solving skills
• Experience with PCB layout software and implementation
• Ability to work individually and in small teams that may include contractors working remotely
• Proficiency in use of electrical test equipment, i.e. oscilloscope, multimeter, soldering tools
• Ability to multitask and be flexible

PREFERABLE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Strong understanding of electromagnetics and magnetostatics (100 KHz – 100 MHz ideally)
• Experience with PA’s (1 W to 50 W), tuning/impedance matching circuits, voltage regulators
• Antenna/RF simulation, optimization & testing
• Experience in hardware development for mobile devices with WiFi/GPS/NFC
• Experience in wireless power applications
• Experience with C programming, and understanding communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART
• Strong understanding of Bluetooth and connectivity protocols
• Knowledge of EMI mitigation, and design for EMI management