Hybrid Senior Electrical Engineer

at PwC

• Job title: Senior Electrical Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $77,000 - $202,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: IoT
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Silicon Valley, United States

About the role

• Electrical Engineer-Senior Associate at PwC specialising in improving product development and manufacturing processes. Collaborating with clients to enhance speed to market, reduce costs, and improve quality.

Responsibilities

• Specialise in improving product development and manufacturing processes
• Work closely with clients to analyse product development lifecycles, identify bottlenecks, and develop strategies to enhance speed to market, reduce costs, and improve quality
• Provide guidance on implementing lean manufacturing principles
• Optimise supply chain integration
• Leverage digital technologies
• Focus on building meaningful client connections
• Deliver quality and anticipate the needs of teams and clients
• Comfortable in ambiguous situations, asking questions and using these moments as opportunities to grow

Requirements

• Minimum Degree Required : Bachelor Degree
• Minimum Years of Experience : 3 year (s) of relevant experience
• Demonstrating knowledge of electrical engineering concepts, designs, prototypes, tests, and analyses
• Demonstrating an understanding of common buses and communications protocols for interfacing to various sensors and peripherals such as optical, environmental, cameras, RF, Battery Management Systems , and human body
• Experience working on products from design through build, bring up, verification, and validation
• Bringing up, troubleshooting, characterizing, and collecting data of sensors, circuits, and system level designs
• Exposure to prototype and/or NPI cycles for high volume consumer electronics
• Demonstrating knowledge of system and/or board level design, as well as board/design bring-up and validation testing
• Contributing to design documentation including block diagrams, component selection criteria, schematics, technical requirements, and test plans
• Initiative to engage with team members, project managers, and vendors to coordinate with cross functional teams to develop and ship products for clients
• Problem-solving and adapting when changes occur to project scope, schedules, requirements, and team composition
• Knowledge of key areas of product design, production plans, and cross-functional product execution with consideration of downstream effects of design decisions, risk assessment, and mitigation plans in order to meet client expectations on performance, cost, and schedule
• Demonstrating an understanding of OrCAD/Allegro or similar ECAD tools, MCU (microcontroller) and/or SoC (System on Chip), battery operated devices, common buses (some combination of I2C, SPI, USB, MIPI), common sensor/peripherals (accelerometer, temperature, Bluetooth/WiFi at system level, displays), as well as design, validation, and New Product Introduction (NPI) cycles for several products in the areas of battery powered applications, wearable devices, wireless, IoT, and audio and medical devices
• Demonstrating knowledge of full cycle product development for at least one product, with an emphasis on some aspect of RF system design (UWB, LoRA, cellular), power supply design (buck/boost, switch mode power supplies), LTSpice or Pspice, and/or certification/regulatory testing (FCC, UL, reliability)

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401k
• holiday pay
• vacation
• personal and family sick leave
• annual discretionary bonus