Principal Electrical Engineer, Opengear (Milton, Brisbane Hybrid) presso Opengear
Opengear · Milton, Australia · Hybrid
- Senior
- Ufficio in Milton
Opengear designs and manufactures products for data center and remote site management. We are a rapidly growing supplier of sophisticated data center, network and remote site management products. Our customers include tech unicorns and Fortune 100 companies. We are the leading supplier of out-of-band solutions for IT infrastructure management and are actively exploring new solutions for hyper-scale data center deployment and management. We are a global company with offices in Brisbane, Australia and Sandy, Utah.
- Hardware design & validation
- Lead design and validation of complex electronic systems, including chip-down ARM and x86 SoCs, network switches, high speed interfaces.
- Review and provide guidance on schematics, PCB layouts, component selection and system design for reliability, compliance and cost optimization.
- Technically guide board bring-up, validation, signal integrity analysis and pre-compliance activities.
- Customer-focused solution collaboration
- with firmware and mechanical team members to ensure seamless integration and synergies.
- with software engineering and architecture to ensure alignment and overall optimization.
- With product management on technical feasibility and design trade-offs.
- With engineering management on complexity estimates, work breakdowns, milestones and risk burndown.
- Strategic and operational involvement
- Support and lead root-cause analysis for hardware issues from initial prototypes through production.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering processes, tools and documentation practices.
- Provide valuable input into risk assessment, regulatory certification planning and supply chain resilience evaluations.
- Leadership & Mentorship
- Serve as technical mentor to other members of the hardware team.
- Identify and advocate for professional development opportunities alongside engineering management.
- Guide innovations to alignment with strategic direction, outline design trade-offs especially around cost/time and modularity/complexity.
- 10+ years of industry experience in electronics design.
- Proven track record of delivering production-grade hardware from concept through manufacturing.
- Expertise in digital circuit design, high-speed interfaces and power supply design.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with a focus on documentation suitable for an intended audience.
- Ability to lead by example and inspire excellence through challenges and complexity.
- Comfortable working in agile development environments
- Experience with Altium Designer (preferred) or similar schematic capture and layout tools.
- Strong understanding of DFM, DFT, signal integrity, power network analysis, thermal and EMI/EMC considerations.
- Experience with FPGAs, cellular modules or RF systems.
- Experience with regulatory compliance testing, EMC design best-practices and troubleshooting.
- Experience with embedded Linux platforms and board-level debugging
- Experience with collaborative and reusable design and review workflows.
- Experience with simulations for thermal, power network, signal integrity, EMC and/or RF.
*Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. This includes, but is not limited to, work visas, employment-based visas, or residency sponsorship. Candidates must have valid work authorization in Australia at the time of application. Visa applications of any kind will not be considered.
The successful candidate will be asked to complete a background check before commencing employment with Opengear.
