Experience: be/btech/me/mtech/phd electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent with 2-8 years relevant experience required, me or phd considered in lieu of experience.
Location: bengaluru, india (currently work from home, nucurrent india office in future)
Role description: nucurrent is looking for an electrical engineer with a hardware focus who is motivated to work closely with a talented and diverse engineering group to drive electrical hardware design, system integration with software and mechanical, and test to deliver end customer productsThe candidate will work very closely with senior electrical hardware, electromagnetics, software, and mechanical engineers as well as external engineering partner teams to design and bring custom boards up from scratch, and exhibit strong cultural values that put the customer first, go beyond the standard, show strong ownership, innovate further, and show strong people skills.
Company description: nucurrent is a leading technology and ip company in the high growth field of wireless power and is the go-to provider of wireless power solutions for the world’s leading product companiesSpanning across industries including automotive, consumer, industrial, iot, mobile, wearables and more, nucurrent designs systems and key components for fortune 500 companies and other industry leaders to enable wireless power transfer in new product releasesThe company supports product teams within large companies to bring wireless power innovations to market faster, with fewer risks, lower costs and better technology, while pushing the boundaries of system performance, charge speed, user flexibility and form factorsNucurrent is a fabless technology company with a robust network of certified manufacturers and is an active leader in specification development across multiple industry standards bodiesNucurrent has an energetic, purpose-driven work environment built by phenomenal people who go beyond expectations, are highly curious, deeply innovative and, above all, put customers first.
Primary function:
Engage with external engineering services partners to lead hardware development efforts
Work with cross-functional engineering team to lead wireless power projects to success, gaining practical hands-on simulation, design, validation, and troubleshooting experience
Develop wireless power systems and modules for a diversity of applications, including consumer electronics, industrial devices, automotive industry applications, medical applications and other exciting industries.
Extensive contribution to design choices, as well as significant hands-on bring-up and troubleshooting will be required
Interact with key customers to integrate nucurrent’s solution
Support customer and internal team meetings in the usa morning time (p.mIn india)
Essential responsibilities:
Work closely with engineering team to translate product requirements into engineering deliverables.
Work with internal and external team to develop the wireless power solution for the customer.
Execute the design and development of wireless power systems for a variety of projects in parallel.
Work and adhere to project timelines to deliver on-time prototypes, test results, and documentation to customers.
Design use of simulation tools such as spice (or equivalent) for circuits, mathematical analysis and test environment scripting using matlab (or equivalent), and schematic and pcb layout using altium.
Development will include extensive hands-on testing with rf boards developed either in-house or by partners/customers, using oscilloscopes, vna’s and other test equipment.
Brief the company management on a regular basis on achievements and goals.
Contribute to the development of intellectual property.
Essential knowledge and skills
Strong written & verbal communications skills, and good interpersonal skills
Proficiency in use of electrical test equipment, i.eOscilloscope, multimeter, soldering tools
Demonstrated success in resolution of technical challenges leveraging strong problem-solving skills
Ability to work individually and in small teams that may include contractors working remotely
Relentless and enterprising approach to solving problems
Passion for working with and developing hardware, including electrical pcbs
Ability to multitask and be flexible
Experience with pcb layout software and implementation
Preferable knowledge and skills
Strong understanding of electromagnetics and magnetostatics (100 khz – 100 mhz ideally)
Experience with pa’s (1 w to 50 w), tuning/impedance matching circuits, voltage regulators
Experience in wireless power applications
Strong understanding of bluetooth and connectivity protocols
Antenna/rf simulation, optimization & testing
Experience in hardware development for mobile devices with wifi/gps/nfc
Experience with c programming, and understanding communication protocols such as i2c, spi, uart
Knowledge of emi mitigation, and design for emi management
