About this role
Hardware Engineer – Softstarter
Location: Västerås, Sweden
Are you an experienced Hardware Engineer who enjoys hands-on lab work and keeping industrial products reliable and competitive?
About the assignment
You will join an agile R&D organisation, mainly in a care team responsible for the existing product portfolio. The focus is on maintaining and improving current products rather than designing new ones from scratch. Typical work includes handling obsolete components, quality issues, cost optimisation and new customer requirements.
What you will do
- Maintain and improve existing electronics hardware
- Handle obsolescence: find and qualify replacement components and new suppliers
- Investigate and solve quality problems
- Update schematics and define PCB layout requirements when changes are needed
- Plan and perform verification, type testing and EMC testing in the lab
- Work with voltage levels up to approximately 1000 V
- Take technical decisions and document solutions for production
- Collaborate with software, system architecture, product management, production and suppliers
Must have
- B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering, Embedded Systems or a related field
- Experience in electronics hardware development in an industrial environment
- At least 2 years of hands-on laboratory experience, with the ability to work independently in the lab
- Experience with circuit design, schematics, simulation tools and prototype testing
- Ability to independently drive hardware activities
- Fluent English, written and spoken
Meritorious
- EMC design and EMC/type testing
- Experience with voltage levels up to 1000 V
- Product maintenance or obsolescence management
- Application-oriented mindset
- Swedish language skills