Sr. Powertrain engineer

Senior hardware engineer - Power electronics

Experience: 5 to 10 years experience

Job Location: Pune

Job Description:

• Design, simulate, and develop a variety of power electronic circuits, including AC-DC, DC-DC converters
• Develop schematics using CAD tools such as Mentor and Altium and collaborate with PCB engineers on layout development.
• Support simulation activities using tools LTspice, or similar, helping to build and analyze design.
• Participate in the prototyping and testing of power electronic circuits and components under guidance.
• Help with the assembly and validation of test setups and perform measurements in the lab.
• Assist in the documentation of design details, test procedures, and results.
• Gain exposure to relevant industry standards and regulatory requirements for power electronics.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines to understand system-level requirements and interactions.
• Contribute to root cause analysis of issues encountered during testing or production under supervision.

Experience and Qualifications:

• B.Tech/M.Tech with specialization in Electrical or Electronics Engineering.
• Overall Experience of 5-10 Years.
• Specific experience of 2-4 years of experience in the design and development of power electronic systems like DC-DC converters or chargers.

Must Have Competencies:

• Proficiency in electric circuit design and analysis involving power devices, gate drivers and passive elements.
• Good understanding of common topologies for power converters and inverters.
• Proficiency in Microcontrollers and peripherals like PWM, ADC etc.
• Hardware and firmware debugging skills for troubleshooting.

Good to Have Competencies:

• Experience with non-idealities in power electronic devices like diodes, MOSFETs, transformers and inductors.
• Knowledge of layout and how it impacts performance.
• Knowledge of EMI/EMC compliance and safety standards like UL, VDE, IEC, or BIS.
• Proficiency in simulation and design tools such as LtSpice, PSIM, MATLAB, Allegro, or Hyperlynx.

MANDATORY CRITERIA:

• Education: B.Tech / M.Tech in ECE / CSE / IT
• Experience: 10–12 years in hardware board design, system hardware engineering, and full product deployment cycles
• Proven expertise in digital, analog, and power electronic circuit analysis & design
• Strong hands-on experience designing boards with SoCs, FPGAs, CPLDs, and MPSoC architectures
• Deep understanding of signal integrity, EMI/EMC, and high-speed design considerations
• Must have successfully completed at least two hardware product development cycles from high-level design to final deployment
• Ability to independently handle schematic design, design analysis (DC drop, SI), and cross-team design reviews
• Experience in sourcing & procurement of electronic components, PCBs, and mechanical parts for embedded/IoT/industrial hardware
• Strong experience in board bring-up, debugging, issue investigation, and cross-functional triage with firmware/software teams
• Expertise in hardware validation, test planning, test execution, equipment selection, debugging, and report preparation
• Proficiency in Cadence Allegro or Altium EDA tools (mandatory)
• Experience coordinating with layout, mechanical, SI, EMC, manufacturing, and supply chain teams
• Strong understanding of manufacturing services, production pricing models, supply chain, and logistics for electronics/electromechanical components

DESCRIPTION:

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

The company is a semiconductor and embedded system design company with a focus on Embedded, Turnkey ASICs, Mixed Signal IP, Semiconductor & Product Engineering and IoT solutions catering to Aerospace & Defence, Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Medical and Networking & Telecommunications.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Extensive experience in hardware board designs and towards multiple product field deployment cycles.
• Strong foundation and expertise in analyzing digital, Analog and power electronic circuits.
• Proficient with SoC, FPGAs, CPLD and MPSOC architecture-based board designs.
• Knowledgeable in signal integrity, EMI/EMC concepts for digital and power electronics.
• Completed at least two project from high-level design to final product level deployment.
• Capable of independently managing product’s schematic, design analysis DC Drop, Signal Integrity, and coordinating reviews with peer of layout, mechanical, SI, and EMC teams.
• Sourcing and procurement of electronic components, PCBs, and mechanical parts for cutting-edge IoT, embedded, and industrial product development.
• Experienced in board bring-up, issue investigation, and triage in collaboration with firmware and software teams.
• Skilled in preparing hardware design documentation, validation test planning, identifying necessary test equipment, test development, execution, debugging, and report preparation.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills for collaborative work with cross-functional teams, including post-silicon bench validation, BIOS, and driver development/QA.
• Hands-on experience with Cadence Allegro/Altium EDA tools is essential.
• Familiarity with programming and scripting languages like Python and Perl, and experience in test automation is advantageous.
• Should have excellent exposure with coordination of Manufacturing Services, pricing model for production value supply chain & Logistics in electronics and electromechanical components domain.

Skill Required

          Technical

• ●  The suitable candidate shall have most of the following knowledge /skills/experience:

• ●  Clear fundamentals of Analog and Digital Electronics. Knowledge of Full Hardware

• Design Life Cycle.

• ●  Knowledge of Circuit Simulation (PSPICE, NI Multisim, etc).

• ●  Hand- On experience with HW designing rules, PCB Layout in Cadsoft Eagle/Altium Designer etc.

• ●  Should have knowledge & experience with designing & developing 8/16 bit Microcontroller based close loop control systems and Arduino Platform.

• ●  Circuit building and Circuit Analysis Skills.

• ●  Component Data Sheet analysis skills.

• ●  Project Requirement Analysis Protocols/Ethernet, Wi-Fi, USB, Serial interfaces(SPI, I2C, RS485, RS422, RS232).

• ●  Hands-on experience in utilizing test equipment like DMM, Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, Function/Signal generator/Solder Station (SMD/DIP).

• ●  Knowledge about Board Bring Up process.

• ●  Testing (Integration testing, protocol/Driver testing, etc.).

• ●  Experience in Embedded C programming and embedded system integration and can develop test cases for the same.

• ●  Knowledge of IoT Open Source Programming / Development.

• ●  Candidate will be responsible for research & development of M2M/IoT products.

• ●  Candidate will be responsible for end-to-end embedded system integration.

   

• Others

  Abilities on the following shall be of added advantage:

• ●  Component Procurement

• ●  Vendor Interaction

• ●  Tools Management

• ●  Costing and resource estimation

• ●  Team management, Good Communication Skills, Pleasant Personality, Positive Attitude & Highly Creative

•  

• Decision level
  Contributory: Makes major contribution to decision or policy judgment on Technical matters of IoT/ M2M Projects, Vending Machines

  Demonstrate (Key competencies)

  Healthy knowledge of most of the following:

• ●  Embedded C

• ●  8/16 bit Microcontrollers

• ●  Atmel Studio/ Arduino IDE

• ●  Schematic / PCB layout design in Cadsoft Eagle / Altium Designer (SMD/DIP)

• ●  Hands-on experience on Test equipment and solder stations (SMD/DIP)

• ●  M2M / IoT based development

INNOPHASE is a rapidly growing communications semiconductor startup with headquarters located in San Diego, CA. It is an exciting time to join InnoPhase and work with a brilliant team of engineers to design innovative wireless products and solutions for IoT/5G.

InnoPhase Bangalore is looking for a Senior Design Verification (DV) Engineer to join a growing start up semiconductor development organization and to help drive excellence in our IOT/5G products.

Responsibilities:

• Follow and help define the team's design verification methodology.
• Write bus functional models that drive and monitor stimulus.
• Plans and implements block and integration level scoreboards and checkers to verify functional behavior.
• Experience constructing chip-level System Verilog and UVM test bench environments, writing System Verilog Assertions (SVAs), with embedded software design and test.
• Develop RAL test plan at SOC/IP level and its implementation.
• Write and analyze functional coverage, providing input to block-level milestones.
• Triage regression failures and identify logic bugs, while driving bug closure.
• Debug test cases and report verification results to achieve the expected code/functional coverage goal. Utilize constrained random verification, functional coverage, code coverage and assertions to achieve goals.

Knowledge and Skills Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in VLSI design or verification
• Excellent collaboration, teamwork and communication skills
• Significant experience in reviewing and modifying IP block verification plans, a real plus if created such plans in collaboration with design engineering.
• Track record of completing IP block verification to acceptable coverage metrics.
• Excellent debugging skills, with experience debugging RTL in the block and/or chip-level environments.
• Working knowledge of OVM or UVM methodologies.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient knowledge of programming and scripting, hardware description language, electronic design automation (EDA), and/or FPGA tools.

StartUp engaged in inventing and innovating Smart Energy Meters and related Technologies (OEM) requires Embedded Engineers. Following re-innovation principle and Technology First direction, we design Technologies to deliver our Vision of the highest Quality Products and Technologies. The candidate's responsibilities include IoT (COSEM/DLMS), technology integration. Required skills include Embedded C and C++ and knowledge of Electrical and Electronics.

1. Programming experience in embedded C and python
2. Experience in embedded systems development and troubleshooting and with real-time operating systems.
3. Experience with embedded C programming for microcontrollers like PIC, Microchip in MPLAB
4. Basic execution of process commands in Linux
5. Experience in handling the raspberry pi