Lead Electrical Hardware & Systems Engineer

About the Company

FUTEK is a leading manufacturer of precision sensor technology, specializing in load cells, torque sensors, and measurement solutions used across industries like aerospace, medical, robotics, and manufacturing. Our mission is to enable innovation through highly accurate measurement solutions that power real-world applications. At FUTEK, we combine engineering excellence with a collaborative, growth-oriented culture—giving employees the opportunity to make a tangible impact while continuing to develop their skills.

Job Summary:

The Lead Electrical Hardware & Systems Engineer will own the architecture, design, validation, and release of electrical hardware for FUTEK precision sensor and instrumentation products. This role is intended for a seasoned engineer who can operate with high independence, define hardware direction, and drive electrical design decisions across firmware, software, mechanical, test, manufacturing, quality, and product stakeholders.

The position focuses on analog and mixed-signal sensing electronics, low-noise signal conditioning, data acquisition, power and protection circuits, PCB design, manufacturability, and hardware/firmware integration. Success in this role includes delivering production-ready hardware, improving hardware development and release practices, mentoring engineers, and helping establish scalable technical direction for future product platforms.

Essential Functions:

• Own electrical hardware architecture, schematic design, PCB design oversight, validation, and release activities for precision sensor, instrumentation, and embedded measurement platforms.
• Develop analog, mixed-signal, and digital circuits for signal conditioning, bridge/sensor interfaces, excitation, data acquisition, ADC/DAC integration, power management, protection, and communication interfaces.
• Define hardware requirements, electrical interfaces, design constraints, PCB stackups, component-selection strategy, BOM structure, DFM/DFT expectations, reliability considerations, and system-level tradeoffs in collaboration with firmware, software, mechanical, test, manufacturing, quality, and product stakeholders.
• Create and review schematics, PCB layouts, component placement, routing, fabrication/assembly notes, calculations, simulations, manufacturing packages, ECOs, and release documentation using Altium Designer and controlled engineering workflows.
• Lead board bring-up, hardware validation, characterization, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions using schematics, oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, thermal tools, and other lab equipment.
• Collaborate with firmware and software engineers to support front end, sampling, sensor calibration, low-level interfaces, board-support requirements, diagnostics, production programming, and hardware/firmware integration.
• Support embedded and industrial interface hardware where applicable, including CAN, Ethernet, USB, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, UART, SPI, I2C, IO-Link, and other communication or gateway-related design requirements.
• Develop and execute hardware verification, design-review, release-readiness, manufacturing-test, and production-support plans, including test procedures, test reports, design documentation, and technical risk assessments.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, design-review leadership, and project/task coordination for engineers and cross-functional contributors while maintaining direct ownership of critical hardware deliverables.