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Location: Hyderabad
Company: General Electric
As lead engineer the successful candidate will be part of a highly motivated, dynamic team of engineers working on the delivery and application engineering of existing and new electronic applications, particularly for HVDC converters and the forthcoming HVDC Grid”. This is a very exciting and dynamic field of power engineering in which GE’s leading contribution has worldwide recognition.
The role of Lead Electronic Hardware Engineer gives an excellent opportunity for a motivated candidate to innovate, expand their design skill and personal development within an internationally recognised company in this exciting field. The role has a level of autonomy but is focused on execution of activities within an operating discipline covered by standard functional practices and procedures. A degree of judgment will be required at this level but can be supplemented by guidance where required.
Whilst based at the HVDC Centre of Excellence in Stafford there may be some international travels to collaborate with other GE teams, test laboratories, strategic suppliers and contract customers.
Job Description
The position requires a high level of electronic engineering expertise, a good level of technical understanding and a level of technical competences of digital, and where possible analogue electronic engineering design for an industrial control system. The candidate will likely be educated to degree level in a related technical subject with a proven track record and evidence that the candidate has the in-depth experience and proven abilities to perform the role.
The candidate should demonstrate an in-depth level of knowledge and understanding of electronic components & principles.
In addition to relevant experience, the candidate should demonstrate an ability to think innovatively and apply engineering knowledge across different disciplines.
It is also expected that applicant should have experience and knowledge in industrialization and supply chain integration.
An enquiring mind and desire to learn new skills, an ability to apply different engineering disciplines and a willingness to share the knowledge are essential qualities.
Skills and Experience
- Has Knowledge of EHS compliance in design and engineering.
- Has experience of digital and analogue electronic circuit design and development.
- Has knowledge of schematic capture supervision.
- Has knowledge of PCB layout supervision including rules & constraints.
- Has experience of electronic component selection, analysis, and qualification testing.
- Has experience of component level design error testing and analysis.
- Has knowledge of Controllership and ROHS/REACH compliance.
- Has experience of FPGA component selection.
- Has knowledge of industrial networks like Profibus, Ethernet, Passive Optical Networks (PON).
- Has experience of product verification (bench testing) and validation (integration testing) testing.
- Has experience of type testing – EMC, Environmental, Halt.
- Has experience of electronic design for EMC.
- Has experience of PCB interactions within power electronics systems.
- Has experience of design for manufacture (DMF, test (DFT), industrialization & design to cost.
- Has practical electronic bench testing experience.
- Has knowledge of HVDC. (Preferred attribute)
- Has some knowledge and experience of Firmware code development. (Preferred attribute)
- Has some knowledge and experience of software code development. (Preferred attribute)
- Has some knowledge and experience of model-based product development tools (MATLAB, Mathcad, LTspice). (Preferred attribute)
- Use of processes, systems, methodologies and tools to manage product lifecycle challenges such as obsolescence and component lead time.
- Has experience of maintaining legacy products including updates and improvements to extend product life span.
