Senior Hardware Design Engineer Jawbone

About Us:

For more than a decade, Jawbone has created products and services for the mobile lifestyle unparalleled in their innovation, ease-of-use and sophistication of design. The Company is the creator of an award-winning, best-selling line of intelligent Bluetooth headsets (Jawbone ERA & ICON), the inventor of NoiseAssassin technology, the world's first and only military-grade noise-eliminating technology, of JAMBOX, the first intelligent wireless speaker and speakerphone, as well as THOUGHTS, a free mobile service that allows users to utilize their voice in a new way. A 2010 IDSA Design of the Decade winner, Jawbone is committed to delivering innovative products that improve the mobile lifestyle through ever-changing software and wearability. Jawbone is privately-held and headquartered in San Francisco.
Job Description:

The Micro Embedded Hardware Engineer will develop very small form factor hardware products and platforms. They will work closely with in house engineering teams (ME, SW) to develop complete solutions. They will then work with partner companies and project managers to bring the products to production. They develop original designs and monitor the work of our partners. They are responsible for delivery of the hardware portion of the product and will coordinate with a cross functional global team.

Develop very small scale, power efficient, very low power electronic hardware.
Integrate low power sensors into designs
Make product cost and architecture trade-offs working with Product Manager and operations teams.
Author detailed Hardware Product Requirements Documents and specifications to enable efficient product development.
Review all product validation plans and test plans authored by partner and internal validation groups
Responsible for schematic capture, component choices, and PCB layout floor planning.
Some travel (20% international and domestic) may be required
Review all product validation reports and test reports generated while testing the product.
Work with compliance team to understand compliance testing needed for product launch into worldwide locations.
Perform board level bring up
Aggressively drive PCB layout designers to smallest possible size
Component selection and qualification with overseas partners
The applicant should be familiar with the design of portable low power products. Experience of a consumer electronics environment dealing with high volume and high quality products is an advantage, as is dealing with problems such as RF-induced noise.
Duties include subsystem design reviews, prototyping, schematic reviews, prototype bring up and debugging, hardware testing, generation of hardware bugs, working with cross-functional teams on debug/analysis/prove-out and also some manufacturing test support.

Experience/Qualifications Preferred:

BS/MS EE or equivalent
Experience with very small form factor electronics
Experience with power efficient designs
Experience with battery powered systems
Experience with Li-Poly and Li-Ion battery charger circuit design
Experience with RF design
Experience with EMI and ESD management techniques
Prior experience working with overseas manufacturing partners
Software architecture and design basics
Excellent verbal and written skills
Excellent team player
Proven ability to lead local and overseas team to launch a successful product
Experience with global regulatory compliance certification
Experience with OrCAD Capture/CIS strongly desired
PADs or Allegro PCB layout software experience desired
Knowledge of fine pitch connectors and small scale interface devices

Minimum Requirements:

BS/MS EE or equivalent
8/16/32 bit low power CPU design experience
Li-Poly and Li-Ion Battery technology
Batter Charger Design Experience
Low quiescent power draw design
Low noise circuit design
CSP and fine pitch BGA device layout experience
5 plus years of experience board level design (block diagram to schematic to PCB)

Location:	150 Executive Park Boulevard Suite 4550 San Francisco, CA 94134 United States