Senior Hardware Engineer

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

Hardware Engineer II - VE / CE

This position provides an exciting opportunity to advance your Engineering and Engineering Services career within one of the Honeywell’s most dynamic COEs. This Hardware Engineer 2 role is responsible for executing the redesign projects that focuses on cost reduction of existing mass volume products across all Honeywell HBT BMS portfolio through Hardware Design follow-ups and support to ensure all the proposal are accurately implemented in collaboration with Global Engineering team. Products involve controllers, control panels, Valves and actuators, Peripherals and the component parts for each of these products. This role is also responsible to identify product cost savings opportunities through vendor change of used electronic & mechanical components as well through electronic circuit design & mechanical system design changes. Implement the change in the mass production factory with the ability to multitask between engineering and non-engineering activities, also identify savings opportunities through inventory reuse, yield improvements, insourcing/outsourcing etc. Good communication and negotiation skills are required on a daily basis in connection with enablers involved in these projects – Design teams, ISC, offering, Manufacturing site, Suppliers etc.

Key Responsibilities and Expectations

• Good understanding of Value analysis, value engineering, and component engineering
• Responsible for the Value Engineering & Component engineering projects and their implementation through collaborative effort with Engineering, sourcing and offering teams.
• Review the current Electronic board design considering the current technologies in terms of component, materials & process, propose ideations to reduce BoM cost either by redesign & optimization.
•  Working knowledge on the electronic circuits and ability to independently propose the cost reduction opportunities. Should be able to drive the Cost reduction Idea generation for existing products & perform or support feasibility review of new ideas assigned.
• Working Knowledge of analog (OPAMPS, BJT, MOSFET etc...) & digital design (Micro controller’s ADC, DAC, memory devices etc.), knowledge of electronic circuits, power supplies, connectors etc.
• Understand, review and propose simplification/changes for the PCB Schematics and Layout Design documents with respect to new component proposals.

Experience and Education Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical/ Electronics Engineering is a must; Masters Degree in Engineering is an added advantage.
• 3-5 Years of professional experience in VECE, Hardware Design
• Excellent knowledge in electrical, analog, digital and power electronics engineering.
• Hands-on experience in redesigning of small / medium hardware (Analog, Digital, Power Supplies, etc.) centric projects is an added advantage
• Understanding of electronic components, their parameters and characteristics, knowledge of electronic circuits and subsystems, experience with conditional qualification testing
• Good understanding of the eCAD tools (like Siemens Mentor-graphics)
• Good understanding of full design Product Development Lifecycle
• Simulation tools, UL/EN/CE standards, statistical methods and tools, MS Office
• Very good written and spoken English, very good communication and negotiation skills, excellent influencing skills, work in the international team, ability of multitasking.

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.