Company Generac Power Systems

Name Senior Hardware Engineer, Connectivity

Req # 64931

Employment Type Full Time

Shift 1st

We are a team of hardworking builders and doers who share a passion for innovation and a desire to outpace others in our field. We push boundaries and seek opportunities for our products and people to evolve. As an inclusive workplace, we keep equity and respect at the forefront and empower employees to speak up, take accountability, and bring their best energy to work every day. At Generac, we collaborate, share successes, and promote a drive to win while respecting others and supporting growth.

The Hardware Engineer III - Product Electronics and Controls (PEC) is responsible for providing electronics hardware input to new product development projects. The PEC engineer will be specifically involved in helping the design and development of new controls or algorithms, and system testing both in the lab and on real products.

Hybrid role located in Waukesha, Wisconsin. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
    • Creating and maintaining CAD models, drawings, and BOMs.
    • Supporting product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs).
    • Interfacing with internal company personnel.
    • Provide technical support for assigned projects.
  • Participate in design reviews.
  • Troubleshoot designs to the component level.
  • Create PC based testing tools.
  • Create and modify schematics using CAD tools.
  • Utilizes simulation tools.
  • Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize basic designs for manufacturability.
  • Take part in Design for Manufacturability and Design for Test Activities.
  • Ensures project documentation, test procedures and manuals are accurate and complete.
  • Conducts and evaluates test specification including testing firmware/hardware.
  • Create, design and develops test specifications for new systems and system components. 
  • Design circuits encompassing power electronics.
  • Design embedded circuits encompassing both analog and digital circuitry.
  • Design embedded circuits using microprocessors/microcontrollers.
  • Specifies components and circuit designs, tests, and integrates individual circuits to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness in meeting requirements, cost (including cost/benefit analysis), reliability (risk analysis), and safety.
  • Provide new product development support, specific to controls in the Industrial, Commercial, Residential and/or Retail generator or Power Tool product area including:

Other Duties as Assigned:
  • Occasional Travel to other Generac facilities and customer site visits as necessary.
  • Mentors less experience engineers.
  • Supporting product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs).
 

Minimal Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or directly related Engineering degree.
  • 5 years of experience designing analog and/or digital hardware.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience in both analog and digital design utilizing microcontrollers.
  • Experience of microprocessor hardware interfacing techniques (e.g. IIC, SPIbus, EEprom, etc.). 
  • Experience in new product design and development.
  • Experience with schematic capture tools such as Altium Designer.
  • Experience in specifying and reviewing PCB layouts for critical spacing for signal integrity and minimizing EMC issues.                              
  • Experience in high-speed logic/bus design. 


Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
  • Ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy.
  • Ability to translate technical information to all audiences.
  • Uses intermediate engineering principles.
  • Able to solve intermediate engineering problems; good decision-making skills.
  • Advanced knowledge of communication protocols/hardware interface.
  • Advanced ability to write test firmware to test hardware designs. 
  • Advanced ability to use FMEA/DFMEA tools.






“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”

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