Hardware Component Engineer with electronics background required by growing IoT company in Clare to be responsible for sourcing & qualifying components for IoT electro-mechanical devices. You will identify & qualify multiple sources for components. The role is vital to ensuring a secure supply chain through the life of the products.
Responsibilities:
As a Hardware Component Engineer in the Engineering and R&D group, you will be responsible for sourcing & qualifying components for products and the associated Gateway systems. You will be a part of the team that brings new products from concept through to high volume manufacturing environment delivery. The specific role is to identify & qualify multiple sources for components. The role is vital to ensuring a secure supply chain through the life of the products.
Requirements:
- Degree, or post graduate qualification, in Electronic Engineering
- 3+ years of experience in consumer products, component engineering, embedded systems and debugging
- Exposure to some of the following: Low-power circuits, DC/DC converters, power management methods, analogue circuits and mixed-signal circuits; Processors, digital circuits and embedded systems;
- Sourcing, evaluating & selecting components for new & established designs
- Familiarity with the major manufacturers, distributors and sources of components
- Bench & lab testing techniques to ensure the components perform (standalone and populated into PCBs) per the data sheets
- Excellent attention to detail, especially for review of spec sheets – electrical & physical characteristics of components
- Environmental testing experience would be a bonus
- Strong communication and documentation skills and ability to operate autonomously
- Good understanding of manufacturing process
- Good interpersonal skills
emer@emtechrecruitment.ie
