Sr. Electrical Engineer

Position Summary

The Sr. Electrical Engineer is a senior individual contributor who independently designs, develops, integrates, and validates electrical hardware for connected-home and consumer-electronics products. This position owns complex electrical design activities from requirements and system architecture through schematic capture, prototype bring-up, design verification, regulatory support, cost optimization, and transfer to high-volume production. The engineer works closely with software, mechanical, RF, test, applications, program management, sourcing, quality, and manufacturing teams across UEI locations and with customers and suppliers.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Lead complex electrical hardware development for wireless control, smart-home, thermostat, sensing, and other embedded consumer-electronics products.
• Translate product and customer requirements into electrical system architectures, block diagrams, component-level schematics, design specifications, interface definitions, and electrical bills of material.
• Design and review digital, analog, mixed-signal, power-management, battery-powered, sensor, display, audio, infrared, and wireless-support circuitry as applicable to the product.
• Select and qualify components based on performance, cost, availability, lifecycle, reliability, regulatory, and manufacturability requirements; evaluate alternate and second-source components when needed.
• Guide PCB placement and routing, including signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, RF coexistence, antenna-interface, thermal, testability, and design-for-manufacturing considerations.
• Plan and execute prototype bring-up, debugging, characterization, design verification, tolerance analysis, worst-case analysis, and reliability testing using appropriate laboratory equipment.
• Diagnose complex product and system issues across hardware, firmware, software, RF, mechanical, manufacturing, and test boundaries; drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions to closure.
• Perform design reviews and provide clear technical recommendations, risk assessments, trade-off analyses, and documentation for project and business decisions.
• Support regulatory and product-safety certification activities, including test readiness, technical investigation, and resolution of compliance issues.
• Partner with global manufacturing and test engineering teams to define electrical test coverage, support pilot builds, resolve production issues, improve yield, and release designs into high-volume production.
• Collaborate with applications and program teams on customer RFQs, feasibility studies, technical responses, preliminary schematics, and BOM development when required.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers and cross-functional team members; may lead the technical work of a project team without direct supervisory responsibility.
• Maintain accurate engineering records and release documentation in accordance with UEI development and change-control processes.
• Travel domestically or internationally as needed to support customers, suppliers, UEI engineering teams, certification activities, and manufacturing sites.