General Motors is hiring: Staff Hardware Design Engineer - Central Compute in Mi
General Motors, Milford, MI, United States, 48380
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren or Milford, Michigan three times per week, at minimum.
The Role
At General Motors, we are committed to creating a world with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion. Our Central Compute hardware team is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge technologies like premium In Vehicle Infotainment display and audio features, Mechatronics control of the entire vehicle, radio and BT connectivity, and Super Cruise Hands-Free Automated Driving that enhance vehicle safety, performance, and autonomy.
As we move to in-sourcing hardware design we are building a hardware engineering team that will own the end-to-end design and development of our Central Compute hardware.
In this role, the Staff Hardware Design Engineer – Central Compute will lead and be responsible for the complete technical design & development of a variant of Central Compute hardware for GM’s next generation vehicles. The role requires an experienced professional with expertise in automotive ECU architecture, design, and analysis, and a proven ability of successfully launching Compute hardware into production.
What You'll Do
- Lead the design of Compute electrical hardware: from SoC/key component selection, schematic capture, worst case analysis, PCB layout, bring-up, debug, signal integrity and power integrity (SI/PI), design verification test (environmental and EMC), to manufacturing support and production launch
- Oversee and guide a team of electrical hardware designers - providing technical direction, assigning tasks, and ensuring the team's productivity and efficiency
- Work closely with contract manufacturing partners to ensure successful product build, from prototype through to mass production, while maintaining quality, cost, and timing targets
- Lead electrical schematic design and PCB layout in Mentor Graphics
- Ownership of the Central Compute project files in Mentor Graphics. Support, and develop as necessary, processes to exchange files with other parties.
- Lead new IC design/development strategic to new Compute designs and architectures
- Perform/support detailed hardware analysis – worst case analysis, signal integrity, power integrity, etc.
- Lead bring-up of hardware design from power supplies, SoCs, MCUs, SerDes interfaces, network devices, etc.
- Collaborate on design for manufacturing (DFM), design for assembly (DFA), and design for testing (DFT)
- Establish and oversee test plans and protocols to validate designs against requirements.
- Lead activities to analyze test results troubleshoot hardware issues, perform root cause analysis, and develop solution to resolve design problems
- Conduct design reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure optimal solutions
- Support DFMEA/PFMEA of Central Compute Unit; ensure lessons learned and best practices are included
- Mentor and provide technical leadership to hardware engineers, offering guidance in hardware design best practices and troubleshooting