Senior Hardware Engineer (Application Engineering)

Position
As hardware engineer in the application engineering team, the holder of this job is responsible for the efficient bringing to market of short range radio products by supporting the first line support team, in all aspects of resolution of technical problems as well as pre-sales activities. The function supports the improvement of existing products and the creation of new products by collecting and examination of market feedback and by analysis of competitive products. The efficiency of the application of our products is supported with the creation and maintenance of support tools and training of our Field Application Engineers and the Sales Staff in general.
 
Tasks
Training, Information Exchange and Support of Technical Managers (TM)
Creation and maintenance of training materials for u-blox short range radio products
Preparation and maintenance of design-in supporting documents (manuals, application notes)
Implementation and maintenance of Know-How exchange among FAE´s and from product development team to FAE (issues, design recommendations, bugs, and feature roadmap)
2nd level support for TM (escalation point of contact in R&D for TM)
Coordinate issue replication and resolution between FAE and product development teams
Hardware schematic reviews and advice, layout analysis
Lead/Key customer design support upon Sales/FAE´s request
Competition analysis (technical focus)



Customer specific / small Design ProjectsCustomization of core R&D deliverables
Supporting tools (e.g. programming sockets for FAEs)
Reference designs (incl. verification of application circuits)



Participation in Product Life-cycle ProcessPreparation and delivery of technical field/market feedback in specification phase
Dissemination of information to FAE organization after Prototype Release
Technical RMA analysis (engineering backend for RMA process under lead of Quality department)

 
Requirements
MS or BS in electrical engineering or computer science
Several years’ work experience in hardware design (schematics and layout)
Customer-oriented, needs to be able to quickly understand the system architecture of customer's application, and advise field application engineers or key customer on possibilities, and consult on a technical level
Good analytical skills
Used to work independently and precisely
Good English communication and interpersonal skills
Technical writing capabilities
Holder of a Swedish work permit



Knowledge in the following areas is an advantage:Wireless knowledge in general and Bluetooth and WLAN and NFC knowledge in particular
SDIO, SPI, I2C, UART, USB and other communication interfaces
Networking protocols
Knowledge of additional European or APAC languages is an asset