Advanced Hardware Engr

We are looking for an experienced Advanced Embedded Hardware Developer with strong hands-on expertise in designing and developing embedded electronic hardware for industrial products and harsh operating environments.

The ideal candidate should have a strong industrial product-development background, preferably involving Flame Scanners, Flame Monitoring Equipment, Burner Controllers, PLC-based Systems, Fuel Delivery Valves / Fuel Control Systems, Electrical Heating Systems, or Combustion Control Equipment.

The candidate will be responsible for hardware architecture, schematic design, component selection, design calculations, PCB design coordination, prototype development, verification and validation, troubleshooting, certification support, and product lifecycle activities.

The candidate should be capable of independently driving hardware development assignments with minimal supervision, taking ownership from requirements and concept development through prototype, validation, and product release. The individual should demonstrate strong engineering judgment, technical ownership, and problem-solving ability, including the capability to investigate complex industrial problems, identify root causes, evaluate alternative solutions, and determine the most practical and reliable technical approach.

The role requires someone who is self-driven and solution-oriented, capable of finding their own path to solve challenging hardware and industrial application problems while collaborating effectively with firmware, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, quality, and other cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop embedded electronic hardware for industrial products.
• Design of Hardware architecture, schematics, circuit calculations, component selection, and documentation design.
• Design analog, digital, power supply, microcontroller, sensor-interface, communication, and I/O circuits.
• Design hardware for industrial combustion and control applications is preferable,
  • Flame scanners and flame monitoring systems
  • Burner management / burner controllers
  • Fuel delivery and fuel control valves
  • PLC and industrial control interfaces
  • Electrical heating and heater-control systems
  • Combustion safety and monitoring equipment
• Interface sensors and actuators such as flame sensors, temperature sensors, pressure sensors, valves, relays, solenoids, heaters, and industrial transmitters.
• Design robust industrial interfaces including digital I/O, analog I/O and industrial communication interfaces.
• Develop and validate AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies, protection circuits, isolation, signal conditioning, and driver circuits.
• Perform component selection, tolerance analysis, power calculations, thermal analysis, and worst-case circuit analysis as required.
• Work closely with PCB designers on component placement, routing, grounding, isolation, thermal management, EMI/EMC, and design-for-manufacturing requirements.
• Lead prototypes bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis using laboratory equipment.
• Develop hardware verification and validation plans and execute engineering tests.
• Support EMI/EMC, environmental, reliability, safety, and regulatory testing.
• Troubleshoot field and production failures and drive corrective/preventive design improvements.
• Support component obsolescence, alternate component qualification, BOM optimization, and product sustaining activities.
• Collaborate closely with embedded firmware, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, sourcing, quality, certification, and test engineering teams.

Conduct schematic/design reviews and provide technical guidance to junior hardware engineers

Required Technical Skills

Embedded Hardware

• Strong experience in mixed-signal embedded hardware design.
• Microcontroller-based system design and peripheral interfacing.
• Analog signal conditioning, ADC/DAC interfaces, sensor measurement circuits.
• Digital hardware, GPIO, timers and communication interfaces.
• Power supply and power-management circuit design.
• Relay, solenoid, valve, motor and heater-driving circuits.
• Protection against ESD, EFT, surge, reverse polarity, overvoltage and overcurrent.
• Isolation techniques suitable for industrial applications.

Industrial Interfaces & Communication

• Hands-on experience with interfaces such as UART, SPI, I2C, CAN and RS-485.
• Understanding of industrial field interfaces and PLC connectivity.
• Experience with 4-20 mA, HART, 0-10 V, digital input/output and industrial sensor interfaces is highly desirable.

Industrial Product Knowledge Preference will be given to candidates with experience in one or more of the following:

• Flame detection / Flame scanners
• UV / IR flame sensing and monitoring
• Burner control systems
• Combustion control
• Fuel and gas delivery systems
• Fuel valves / safety shut-off valves
• PLC-based industrial control
• Electrical heating and heater controllers
• Temperature sensing and control
• Industrial safety & monitoring electronics
• Global Certification Standard knowledge IEC61508, EN298, IEC60730.
• Coordination with Agency TUV, EXIDA, FM, CSA, UL etc.

Testing & Debugging Skills

Candidate should be proficient in using:

• Digital Oscilloscope
• Digital Multimeter
• Logic Analyzer
• Programmable Power Supply
• Electronic Load
• Signal / Function Generator
• Current probes and other hardware debugging equipment

Strong capability in board bring-up, fault isolation, failure analysis and systematic root-cause analysis is expected.

Safety, Compliance & Reliability

• Good understanding of designing reliable electronics for industrial environments.
• Working knowledge of EMI/EMC design principles, electrical safety, creepage and clearance, isolation, grounding and protection.
• Experience supporting regulatory or product-certification activities is preferred.
• Exposure to designing fail-safe or safety-related industrial control products would be an advantage.

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Electronics & Communication, Instrumentation Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

8-10 years of relevant embedded hardware/product-development experience