Lead Hardware Engineer

Who Are We (https://www.niqorobotics.com//)

Niqo Robotics is a Bangalore based Agri-tech company centered at AI, Computer Vision and Robotics, revolutionizing the way farming is undertaken in India and the world. Our mission is simple – Building accessible and reliable robots for sustainable farming.

Responsibilities

• Design Hardware systems to meet the product requirements
• Define the sub-system requirements from the product requirements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define the product requirements
• Perform design calculations and simulations to predictively estimate the design CTQs and analyze the tolerances
• Define engineering verification test plans
• Closely collaborate with Software/NPD/Validation teams
• Strong understanding of the PCB design process and collaborate with the PCB designers to get the PCB design fir
• Demonstrate strong understanding of FMEA process and drive FMEA culture throughout the product life cycle
• Collaborate with NPD teams to review the Hardware designs for DFM, DFA, and DFT
• Collaborate with Mechanical team to define the Hardware footprints & seamless integration of ECAD-MCAD
• Create the Sub-system platforms and variant management, and demonstrate faster TTM by maximizing the usage of the sub-system platforms across the product lines
• Demonstrate agility to align to the business needs
• Plan & review the tasks for the hardware team to align to the program timeline goals
• Ability to analyze problems in a very fundamental manner and solve them through rigorous engineering.
• Demonstrate Design/Analyze using the fundamental concepts with structured RCA process
• Perform the worst-case analysis for the electronics designs

Requirements And Skills

• 8+ years of experience in Embedded Hardware design
• B.Tech/M.Tech degree in Electrical (or) Electronics (or) Communications (or) Instrumentation specializations
• RF Interface design for GPS, RTK-GPS, Wi-Fi, BLE, 4G/5G
• High-Speed Design based on Nvidia/Qualcomm GPU
• Embedded Hardware Designs based on the ST or equivalent microcontrollers
• Knowledge of serial communication protocols, SCI, SPI, I2C, CAN etc.
• Knowledge of high-speed serial communication interfaces, USB, Ethernet, MIPI, LVDS etc.
• Application development using Off-The-Shelf IoT/GSM/GPS modules
• Understand Antenna Theory and Selection, and RF tuning
• C/C++/Python/Assembly Language (ARM/x86) Programming, API Development
• Quality Management Systems
• Electrical Safety standards
• EMI/EMC Test Standards
• Reliability Evaluation of Electronic Sub-systems
• Thermal Evaluation of Electronic Sub-systems
• Environmental Test Standards Applicability and evaluate the electronic subsystems against the standards
• Knowledge of the electronic test equipments like DSOs, Spectrum analyzer, Logic analyzer, VNA, Datalogger, PSUs, Electronic loads, DMM, Power Analyzer
• Knowledge of simulation tools like Mathcad/ Matlab/ SPICE/ Hyperlynx/ Crystal Ball/ Minitab etc.

Work Location – HQ, Indiranagar, Bangalore