Senior Hardware Design Engineer (Electronics)

Festo is a worldwide leader in automation technology headquartered in Germany. We are always coming up with creative process solutions that bring product ideas to life. As an employer, we do everything in our power to ensure that visionary ideas are transformed into practice. What we do expect from you? Think outside of the box. Try new things. Bring your own idea. Take advantage of the creative freedom, the wide variety of development opportunities and the access to the best practice.

With reference to our growing Technical Engineering Center Sofia currently we are looking for:

Senior Hardware Design Engineer (Electronics)

Your Job:

• Contribute to system design and architecture by aligning hardware concepts with mechanics, software development and overall product requirements;
• Develop analog and digital hardware solutions from concept and schematic design through validation, industrialization and production release;
• Supervise PCB layout from initial concept to series production, ensuring EMC-compliant, manufacturable and cost-effective hardware design;
• Support product care activities for existing products by improving quality, producibility, component availability, lifecycle robustness and competitive production costs;
• Drive hardware-related industrialization topics together with production, purchasing, quality and cross-functional engineering teams;
• Monitor semiconductor market developments and initiate technical alternatives, redesigns and obsolescence countermeasures where needed;
• Build, bring up, debug and test prototypes, including coordination and execution of functional, integration and production-oriented validation tests;
• Actively participate in project teams, FMEA reviews and design-for-manufacturing discussions to ensure robust product implementation.

Technical Competencies and Requirements: 

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Communications, Engineering, etc.; 
• Excellent written and spoken English, knowledge in German language will be considered as an advantage;   
• Very good command of MS Office.

Professional Competencies and Requirements:

• Proven expertise and practical experience as Hardware Designer at least 5 years;
• Expertise and deep knowledge in current industrial Ethernet interfaces (ProfiNet, Ethernet IP and/or Ethercat);  
• Practical experience in schematic and PCB design, Cadence Allegro;
• Good knowledge in control systems engineering and analog electronics.

Personal Competencies and Requirements:

• Capable of making fast decisions and taking the responsibility for the results in dynamic and changing environment;
• Oriented towards goals achieving and results;
• Focused on the added value for the internal and/or external clients;
• Team player, able to work in a multicultural working environment;
• Thinking out of the box, creativity and continuous improvement attitude;
• Flexible, adaptable, open to meet the change and acquire new knowledge and skills.

You can expect the following with us:

• Motivating compensation and social benefits package.
• Opportunity to work on a variety of projects in the field of industrial automation, IIoT.
• Professional development and learning opportunities in high technology and production environment.

In case your professional qualification corresponds to the above requirements and you wish to join our growing team, please send us your CV!

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. Your documents and personal data will be treated as confidential and will be protected according to Bulgarian Data Protection Legislation and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR).