Hardware Architect

Hardware Architect

Sunnyvale, CA – Onsite

Key Responsibilities

• Establishes policies and procedures by working closely with customer contact points and ensure high-quality hardware validation outcomes.

• Should be able to guide a team to define and improve test strategies, plans, required validation processes, and KPIs.

• Ability to review test cases and test outcomes, and guide team to make testing more effective.

• Own product KPIs and drive testing towards them.

• Guide junior technical architects on strategy as well as other technical aspects.

• Review the progress and identify corrective actions.

• Oversee all aspects of hardware engineering and validation activities within a customer account.

• Helping in identifying and introducing critical process and hygiene steps.

• Guiding the team in defining the automation strategies and defining achievable outcomes.

• Review and analyze verification results to provide support in root causing and corrective action.

• Provide proactive feedback to various streams of product validation.

• Work alongside and interface with Customers (as required), internal stakeholders, and Engineering/Delivery Team on System validation requirements and presenting capability and solutions to stakeholders

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience in small form factor Consumer Electronics (or portable CE devices, consumer Medical devices) products, preferably in wearable devices.

• Experience with architecture and systems engineering across electrical, firmware, audio and optical systems.

• Experience integrating and delivering one or more of these technologies: displays, silicon, sensors.

• Should be able to cut across all engineering streams across product lines and formulate strategic plans.

• Experience in building products as architect for the entire life cycle (from concept, through commercialization, to production maintenance).

• Should be able to visualize on HW and SW system model on products that are zero to one.

• Should be able to define the testing strategies and guide team on testing products with no reference model.

• Should be able to apply past experiences / intuitions on how to build and test products with no reference model.

• Expects to be highly technical with operational knowledge on technically managing product.

• Should have worked in bottoms up culture.

• Communication experience working with Product Development engineers, Product Managers and other hardware/software cross-functional teams.

• Should be able to analyze issues strategically across product lines as well as tactically as needed.

• Experience in defining technical-operations steps to move work across geographies.

• Should be able to provide value propositions to improve efficiencies at Technical and operational processes.

• Should have experience in Platform/BSP testing, Boot Loaders testing, product bring up cycle exposure.

• Experience in overseeing validation programs of devices with Connectivity (WiFi/BT/BLE), Camera, Audio, and Display features will be an added benefit.

• Good understanding of software stack from BIOS/FW through OS driver, experience with testing of device drivers in Android/Linux.

• Knowledge and experience in Android OS. Should have good knowledge in Android Kernel customization and adb.

• Should be capable of implementing debugging setup in Android platform and defining corrective actions.

• Quick, responsive and fast learner, Keen interest in studying new technologies rapidly and execute them.

• Responsible for quality planning, effort optimization, defect prevention, defect prioritization, root cause analysis of testing.

• Experience in requirement analysis, test estimation, reviewing test plans and strategy.

• Experience in functional requirements reviews with product management and marketing teams.

• Knowledge in QA process and standards to improve the product quality for the organization..

• Should have excellent interpersonal and customer relational Skills.

Education

• MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering other related technical field or equivalent experience.

• Minimum 12 years of Hardware Experience in Product development/testing with demonstration of using new technologies.

• Minimum 4 years’ experience in Wearable / Small form factor consumer electronics products.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $70,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Sunnyvale, CA 94086: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $70,000 - $100,000