Sr. Electrical Engineer in Canada

Sr. Electrical Engineer
Work Description:
Headquartered in Singapore, Flextronics is a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on delivering complete design, engineering and manufacturing services to automotive, computing, consumer, industrial, infrastructure, medical and mobile OEMs. Flextronics helps customers design, build, ship, and service electronics products through a network of facilities in 30 countries on four continents. This global presence provides design and engineering solutions that are combined with core electronics manufacturing and logistics services, and vertically integrated with components technologies, to optimize customer operations by lowering costs and reducing time to market. For more information, please visit www.flextronics.com .

Responsibility:

Electrical/Hardware Engineer is responsible for design and development of electronics used in a Smartphone and computing devices.  EE may lead a small group of junior engineers in the development of one of the electrical blocks of a smartphone.  A Senior Engineer will write or guide junior engineers in the writing of technical specifications and test plans for semi-custom integrated circuits and electrical subsystem.  This position will have the responsibility for electrical functionality of one of the major blocks on the Smartphone such as Display, Power Management, Memory, Apps processor, Audio, Display, EMC, and Signal integrity.

Major Duties:
The design and development activities include electrical design (processor, memory, display, audio, power control, I/O, and accessories), ASIC specification, component testing / optimization, system testing / integration, product certification and transfer to manufacturing.
Evaluating potential component suppliers, by assessing each vendor's devices and comparing them across several different criteria (electrical performance, component packaging, delivery timeframe, cost, etc.)
Generating supporting design documentation for product development (Electrical functional spec, ASIC specification, Test & Adjust specification, production specification, etc.).
Participate and support in detail design of schematic and PCB.
Test plan execution from the IC level, to the circuit block, and system levels to insure compliance with all applicable specifications and requirements.
Developing and maintaining test platforms for hardware verification and software development.
Conducting environmental tests, providing component qualification support, and providing support to manufacturing through mass production.
Working in a cross functional environment, for the timely development of components (display, speaker, buzzer, microphone, battery, accessories, etc.) and providing support for SW development and integration testing.


REQUIRED Basic Work Requirements:

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, or relevant background experience.
8+ years industry experience, minimum 5 years in a design contributing role.
Knowledge and experience high speed circuit design for mobile device products and  computing devices.
Experience with schematic and PCB design.
Knowledge and experience in the certification of radio / cellular products to regulatory and telecom carrier requirements.
Experience with supporting prototype builds and transferring design to manufacturing.
Experience in working with test labs and agencies for product testing and certification
Results oriented work ethic and the ability to work effectively and respectfully in a project team.
Good communications in oral and written English language

Additiona job requirements

Experience in one or more of the following areas:
Experience with Tier I embedded ARM SoCs and associated peripheral chipsets.
Experience with memory subsystem.
Experience with power Management and thermal management for mobile products
Experience with multimedia (Audio, Video, Display, Camera) for mobile products
Experience with connectivity such as HDMI and USB.
Experience with EMC certification and mitigation techniques.
Experience and knowledge of CAD tools for simulating high speed digital circuits (SI & EMC)
Mandarin language skills