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Sr. Hardware Engineer/Full Time Contract role until 12/27.

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Leggett Dynamics is a global provider of lumbar systems, bolster systems, pneumatic massage systems, wire forms, mechanical control cables, as well as seat suspension, actuator, and motor systems. In addition to these award-winning, category-leading products, we offer tailored goods due to our expertise in product development and attention to market trends. Our unique competitive advantages give us unmatched insight into the demands of the consumer.

Lead and review design and development activities of electronic hardware including, requirements, architecture, schematic design, simulation, design for EMC, hardware layout and validation.

• Utilize the ALM tool (Codebeamer) to analyze requirements to derive hardware design, verification and validation criteria
• Lead and review various engineering efforts to design, prototype and validate product design solutions in support of customer and internal core team timing requirements.
• Maintain regular contact with team on technical issues, and complete efforts to ensure understanding of their needs resulting in delivery of commitments from customer/Leggett & Platt for a given design architecture.
• Active participation in program core teams with proactive presentation of defined engineering deliverables.
• Develop engineered product solutions to meet customer needs by creative use of core part designs and technologies by ensuring compliance to IPC and other regulatory standards, utilizing best practices such as WCCA, thermal, electrical and EMC simulations and other such standard tools.
• Establish and maintain adequate records of technical information, process methods/standards, design, program details, and records to support/procure reliable patent actions.
• Ensure products are reviewed for best practice from a Design for Excellence (DFX) perspective including Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), Design for Cost (DFC), Design for Testability (DFT), and Design for Reliability (DFR) to ensure design delivery to product targets.
• Completes any other assignments, duties and projects that may be assigned

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Electronics or Mechatronics Engineering.
• Preferred 5+ years of experience in a Sr. Automotive Embedded Hardware Product Design role.
• Ability to lead a small team by providing direction and guiding team members in the hardware team as a technical expert for hardware design.
• Experience working with schematic entry and PCB layout design tools and their process (Cadence tool suite is an asset).
• Experienced in schematic design, layout design, design for EMC, engineering calculations and analysis (e.g. WCCA and simulations).
• Experience working with standard automotive communication bus hardware integration (e.g. LIN and CAN).
• Experience with OEM testing specifications and design requirements.
• Experience working with project launch cycles for automotive.
• Experience working with and maintaining hardware component libraries, footprint libraries, and symbol libraries for use in global designs.
• Knowledge of automotive APQP terms.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, communication skills and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of ISO-26262 Functional Safety and ASPICE is an asset.

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