Automotive PCB Design Engineer
Alten Technology · Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States ·
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- Hardware
- Company size
- 1000+
Designs automotive PCB layouts and schematics, ensuring compliance with safety, EMI/EMC, and thermal constraints while collaborating on embedded electronics for vehicles.
We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical, Electronic, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent program.
- Master Degree is a Plus.
- Experienced in industrial or automotive Hadware Electronics design (preferred) area (TIER1...)
- Understanding with embedded electronics design constraints
- Familiar with system/component design, EE architecture topologies and safety
- Solid understanding of system/component design. Solid Understanding of Analog and Digital analysis of circuits.
- Familiar with vehicle bus: ETH/CAN FD/LIN/LVDS communication protocols and troubleshooting tools
- Familiar with EMI/EMC design, test and troubleshooting
- Familiar with experience in thermal management for ECU embedded electronics
- Being able to support/handle more than one expertise domain as a plus
- Ability to participate and leading schematic and layout design reviews
- Experience performing Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis.
- Experience performing Circuit Simulations with LTSpice or similar tool.
- Experience performing Worst Case Circuit Analysis is a plus
Should have experience in:
- Altium tool min 3-6 Yrs (or equivalent tool)
- Altium Schematic Capture (or equivalent tool).
- Altium PCB Layout review (or equivalent tool).
- High complex multilayer layout design
- PCB layer stack-up design.
- PCB design rules.
- PCB to Mechanical interfaces.
- PI/SI justified experience is a plus
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.