Electrical Hardware Integration Engineer

Job Summary

Vertiv is seeking an Electrical Hardware Integration Engineer to join our Advanced Monitoring and Controls Team. This person will provide technical expertise and leadership in the development of printed circuit boards and assemblies that will be integrated throughout the Vertiv Global portfolio of thermal products.  Working closely with the Controls firmware development team, this position will support the specification generation, electrical/board design, CM support, testing, and integration support aspects of bringing their designs to life in high-scale production environments. 

This role will work on a global team with resources and Lab environments spanning multiple regions and time zones.  The position will report into the Global Thermal Line of Business and will impact the global product portfolio.  The Global Thermal product portfolio includes traditional air cooled (DX), pumped refrigerant economizer, Chilled water/Chiller, Liquid Cooled, heat rejection, software, and controls-based sensors and products. 

Responsibilities:

• Write specifications for Printed Wiring Boards (PWB) to meet top level requirements of the Thermal Product Offering group. Define additional requirements and specifications that are not directly in the top-level requirements that are important to the design.
• Creation of system level architectures for distributed microprocessor-based sensors and controls.
• Creation of hardware test plans for design verification and factory verification of PWB.
• Creation of requirements documents to enable factory test verification of PWB.
• Manages vendors in creating factory test verification equipment and deploys equipment to contract manufacturers.
• Evaluates EMC risk in PWB and mitigates risk in designs.
• Troubleshoot causes of EMC test failures and implement changes to correct any issues.
• Recommends requirements in future designs to prevent warranty issues.
• Ability to find, recommend, and test alternate parts.
• Experience in evaluating older designs to determine risk levels for changing components.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent with strong emphasis on electrical circuit design: Electrical Engineering
• 7+ years of electrical engineering and related experience.
• Knowledge and experience with CAN, 485, 232, SPI, I2C, USB and Ethernet communication interfaces required.
• Knowledge and experience with microprocessor architecture, USB, RGMII/RMII and DDRx interfaces.
• Knowledge and experience with microcontrollers in sensors.
• Knowledge and experience with analog interfaces to devices and sensors for control and sensing.
• Experience with FCC and CE testing of electronics equipment. 
• Experience in schematic capture and PCB layout, preferably in Mentor Graphics.
• Ability to create schematics from requirements and guide PCB designers in layout.
• Ability to diagnose warranty issues and correct design to reduce field failures.
• Experience in part selection and creation of part records in manufacturing database.
• Experience with creating bills of materials, drawing records and change orders to provide documentation for production to create an PWA.
• Experience with electronics contract manufactures implementing production of PWA in new/existing product lines.
• Experience with correcting design for manufacturing (DFM) issues on PWA.
• Exposure to C, Python, Bash, LabView, and Linux is preferred.
• Exposure to HVAC principles and systems is preferred.
• Experience with HVAC principles a plus.
• Fluency in English

 

 

 

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities. 

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS:  Safety.  Integrity.  Respect.  Teamwork.  Diversity & Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

•  Customer Focus

•  Operational Excellence

•  High-Performance Culture

•  Innovation

•  Financial Strength

OUR BEHAVIORS

•  Own It

•  Act With Urgency

•  Foster a Customer-First Mindset

•  Think Big and Execute

•  Lead by Example

•  Drive Continuous Improvement

•  Learn and Seek Out Development

 

About Vertiv

At Vertiv, we offer the stability of a global leader in a growing industry and the opportunity of a startup. We design, manufacture and service the mission-critical infrastructure technologies for vital applicati