HW Design Architect

Work Schedule

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Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving sophisticated analytical challenges, increasing efficiency in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our distributed team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an outstanding combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

The Hardware Design Architect is a member of a global R&D Team. The role is of a hands-on Electrical/Electronic engineer who is motivated to actively contribute to the new design and update of existing products. The person will play key role in architecting the systems, be involved from idea to product launch/update and own the design aspects and address all technical challenges including regulatory certifications.

• Perform reviews on design concepts, component selections, trade off analysis and resolve technical challenges
• Work with cross function team to capture requirements, perform system / subsystem design, finalize electronics design requirement by reviewing with systems & global engineering teams. Provide design options & tradeoff analysis to meet the requirements
• Design schematic of digital, mix signal & power electronics circuit board that satisfied the design requirement
• Build and review the design documents and verification plan mapping to all the requirements including key performance & reliability requirements.
• Ensure the design performance meets the requirements, stays in sync with the Manufacturability and Serviceability, and achieve the cost/reliability target.
• Collaborate closely with the other engineering team members to have design meet with compelling design and form-factors that also meet regulatory, safety, environmental, reliability, thermal and interface standard (Ethernet, USB, etc.) compliance requirements.
• To work with the sourcing team and the supplier to coordinate the manufacturing and provide detailed requirement for FCT of PCBA to make sure the PCBA from production line can meet design requirement.
• Continuously learns and grow technical depth and knowledge across product lines.

• Masters or Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics engineering, or related field or equivalent.
• 12+ years of experience in hardware design and development in embedded system design with 8/16/32-bit microprocessor design

Required:

• Should have demonstrated proficiency in working with system/software/Firmware/hardware/ Electrical requirements development and validation
• Hands on experience in analog, digital and power supply design. Also, interfacing electro-mechanical and other peripherals in instrument design with sensors and control algorithm.
• Strong knowledge in alternate design analysis/part substitute for cost out ideas and obsolescence management including design analysis for quality, reliability, power consumption, timing parameters etc.
• Should have good knowledge on the compliance requirement & should support product regulatory compliance testing including EMC/EMI, CCC, UL, RoHS. etc..
• Proficient in debugging instruments (digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers);
• Experience in practices for Design for Test (DFT), DFR and Design for Manufacturing (DFM) background.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of Software & Firmware Engineering principle
• Agility to multiple simultaneous projects, tasks & programs to suit business needs

• Experience with cost take out/VAVE methodologies and Phase gate process
• C/C++ Embedded Programming
• FPGA based Design with programming using HDL