Principal Embedded Hardware Engineer (15)

Principal Embedded Hardware Engineer

As a Principal Embedded Hardware Engineer, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership to a multi-disciplinary team, including firmware, hardware, software, and mobile developers. At a Principal level, you will be expected to have knowledge across disciplines and guide overall system optimization, security, and reliability. The ability to be responsive, flexible, and communicate clearly, both technical and non-technical, will be critical to your success in this role.

You will participate in the design, integration, and improvement of the FW stacks for the main computational board embedded in our devices. This includes designing and implementing a wide range of low-level embedded software on our hardware platform, including device drivers, communication protocols, security requirements, refactoring and porting existing code, and other low-level programming activities.

Responsibilities

• Use technical knowledge to help influence decisions over multiple teams and products
• Work as an adviser to the product leadership team
• Participate in high-level reviews of architecture and product designs
• Work to drive the technology roadmaps for the organization
• Demonstrate a high level of design creativity and positive impact
• Work to set engineering excellence and establish company best-practices efforts within the department
• Assist in the development of talent, career skills, and mentor engineers
• Work to explore external technology offerings. Work with external vendors regarding current and future technology needs
• Keep current with industry trends and technology by performing technology research and by attending industry trade shows and conferences
• Work cross-functionally with various groups (HW, SW, Product, ME) to develop and validate potential new product and service offerings
• Develop intellectual properties based on the above to continue to build out and reinforce T-Mobile's patent portfolio

Basic Qualifications

• Passion for providing a great customer experience in all of our products through the quality and usability of released hardware
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent required
• 10+ years of hardware development experience including full life cycle and design-to delivery experience
• 10+ years of providing design leadership within a technical team
• Hands-on experience in rapid prototyping of hardware, including utilizing dev kits, 3D printing, and embedded software
• Full product life-cycle experience, including brainstorming, product prototyping, and realization, design for very-low-cost manufacturing, high-volume manufacturing, and field support
• Experience with PCB design and layout, including ORCAD design package
• Experience with regulatory compliance for hardware including FCC, UL, IEEE-1725, and CEC
• Experience with embedded system design including processor selection, communication protocols (USB, SPI, I2C, etc.), extremely low power design, sensor integration, and multi-radio integration
• Experience with RF technology and RF design, especially for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
• Experience with basic mechanical design including CAD design tools such as SolidWorks and 3D modeling of electronic designs

Preferred Qualifications

• MS/Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• Experience with ARM multi-core processors
• Experience with extremely battery efficient designs
• Experience with navigation sensors such as IMUs, GPS, and other location services
• Knowledge of wireless BLE 4.0 protocols, TCP/IP networking, understand 802.11 protocol
• Experience working with cellular modems and modules.