Senior Hardware Design Lead

You will be the Senior Hardware Design Lead responsible for providing technical leadership in hardware design and supporting end-to-end validation activities. Your role will involve combining deep design expertise with practical validation knowledge to collaborate effectively with vendors and internal teams in ensuring that products meet functional, safety, compliance, and reliability requirements. As a mentor and problem-solver, you will guide vendors through design or validation challenges to ensure robust, compliant, and production-ready designs. Key Responsibilities: - Review and guide schematic design, PCB layouts, and component selection. - Ensure designs meet performance, surge protection, metering accuracy, power handling (up to 480V), and wireless connectivity requirements. - Support design-for-manufacturability (DFM) and design-for-reliability (DFR). - Collaborate with firmware teams for seamless hardwaresoftware integration. - Define design validation requirements in collaboration with test and QA teams. - Support prototype builds (EVT/DVT/PVT) by providing technical input to validation plans. - Assist vendors in debugging validation failures and identifying design-level improvements. - Review validation data and recommend corrective design changes as needed. - Act as the technical expert for vendors, assisting in resolving design and validation roadblocks. - Provide feedback on vendor design documentation, test results, and compliance gaps. - Work with supply chain and manufacturing partners to ensure scalable designs. - Collaborate with compliance teams to prepare for certifications (UL, FCC, CE, IEC, etc.). - Lead root cause analysis of design or validation failures. - Propose alternative circuits, components, or architectures in issue resolution. - Share best practices in hardware design and validation with vendors and internal teams. Qualifications: - Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering. - 812+ years of experience in hardware design and validation. - Proven experience with high-voltage electronics, IoT devices, or industrial products. - Track record of working with vendors and certification labs. - Experience with streetlight controllers (photocells, surge protection, lighting communication standards, metering) is a strong plus. You will be the Senior Hardware Design Lead responsible for providing technical leadership in hardware design and supporting end-to-end validation activities. Your role will involve combining deep design expertise with practical validation knowledge to collaborate effectively with vendors and internal teams in ensuring that products meet functional, safety, compliance, and reliability requirements. As a mentor and problem-solver, you will guide vendors through design or validation challenges to ensure robust, compliant, and production-ready designs. Key Responsibilities: - Review and guide schematic design, PCB layouts, and component selection. - Ensure designs meet performance, surge protection, metering accuracy, power handling (up to 480V), and wireless connectivity requirements. - Support design-for-manufacturability (DFM) and design-for-reliability (DFR). - Collaborate with firmware teams for seamless hardwaresoftware integration. - Define design validation requirements in collaboration with test and QA teams. - Support prototype builds (EVT/DVT/PVT) by providing technical input to validation plans. - Assist vendors in debugging validation failures and identifying design-level improvements. - Review validation data and recommend corrective design changes as needed. - Act as the technical expert for vendors, assisting in resolving design and validation roadblocks. - Provide feedback on vendor design documentation, test results, and compliance gaps. - Work with supply chain and manufacturing partners to ensure scalable designs. - Collaborate with compliance teams to prepare for certifications (UL, FCC, CE, IEC, etc.). - Lead root cause analysis of design or validation failures. - Propose alternative circuits, components, or architectures in issue resolution. - Share best practices in hardware design and validation with vendors and internal teams. Qualifications: - Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering. - 812+ years of experience in hardware design and validation. - Proven experience with high-voltage electronics, IoT devices, or industrial products. - Track record of working with vendors and certification labs. - Experience with streetlight controllers (photocells, surge protection, lighting communication standards, metering) is a strong plus.