Electrical Engineer

Shape The Future Of Mobility From Day One

This position is part of our Signal & Power Solutions segment; Connection Systems business unit.

The Aptiv Connection Systems Team is looking for an Electrical Engineer to join the North America Product Engineering Team in our Troy Technical Center in Troy, MI or Champion Technical Center in Champion, OH. The successful candidate will be a part of the Consumer Connectivity product portfolio. The Electrical Engineer will design, develop and validate electronic products aligned with business product portfolios to OEM requirements. The successful candidate will work with products requiring circuits such as switch mode power supplies, inverters, power switches, LVDS transceivers, HDMI receivers, USB hubs, embedded MCU, audio / video codecs and wireless communications links based on RF standards (e.g. 802.11n, Bluetooth, Qi, NFC, GSM).

Your Role (i.e. Key Job Responsibilities) :

• Work directly with automotive OEMs and other Tier 1 suppliers to design products that meet customer functional, EMC and electrical requirements
• Develop product schematics using schematic capture software and oversee and / or create PCB layouts
• Complete peer reviews and create change documentation for engineering changes
• Develop new circuit building blocks and evaluate new components
• Work with supply chain management to provide cost analysis of Bill of Material (BoM) and component cost tradeoffs
• Negotiate design validation plan with the customer and manage its execution at test labs
• Conduct detailed benchmarking, competitive and cost-tradeoff analysis for area of responsibility
• Perform simulations, worst case circuit analysis, FMEAs, and similar systematic design analysis to verify robust performance
• Perform bench level debugging, testing and prototyping
• Provide risk assessment and perform root cause analysis of product performance deviations using standard practices (fault tree analysis, fishbone diagrams, 5-why, etc)
• Complete steps and documentation as necessary for following Aptiv product development process flow
• Work with validation team to assist in developing proper equipment and processes for Design Validation (DV) and Product Validation (PV) of product
• Participate in design process audits for adherence to IATF process standards
• Mentor other department Electrical Engineers in proper practices, industry standards and best practices
• Ensure compliance with customer specific requirements
• Create and conduct technical presentations to explain and sell new product designs
• Support the cross-functional team including software engineering, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, ECAD, MCAD, manufacturing, quality and SCM

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Candidates for positions with Aptiv must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.