Senior Electrical Engineer - RISC

Job Title: Senior Electrical Engineer - RISC

Location(s): Irvine, CA - Onsite

Compensation: $100,000-120,000

About this position:

Advantech is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer with a focus on RISC-based computing platforms. This role combines hands-on circuit design support, system validation, and customer-facing technical support. This role is well suited for an engineer who demonstrates initiative, effectively manages competing priorities, and can identify and resolve issues during product validation.

Responsibilities:

• Support the integration, design, and validation of system architectures, interfaces, and electrical circuits for RISC-based embedded computing platforms.
• Collaborate with software and firmware developers throughout system development
• Provide pre-sales and post-sales technical support, including feasibility testing, data measurements, technical responses to customer bids, RMA verification, and on-site technical training
• Assess customer technical requirements, develop solutions, perform system testing, and support installation in customer environments
• Build hardware and software demonstration prototypes to support sales and marketing efforts, including rapid prototyping and system integration
• Address field issues and coordinate with field sales personnel
• Ability to occasionally lift and carry moderate-weight equipment and work for extended periods while sitting, standing, or walking, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience with RISC and x86 hardware design, installation, and troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of RISC-based (e.g., Arm) computing architectures
• Ability to use a multimeter, oscilloscope, and other standard electronic troubleshooting equipment
• Ability to read and troubleshoot mechanical drawings, schematics, and PCB circuits
• Experience with application coding using industry-standard languages such as C is a plus
• Familiarity with Linux environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Experience with RISC-V based designs
• Experience supporting customers in a technical pre-sales or post-sales capacity

Benefits:

• Competitive salary dependent on experience (DOE)
• Winning culture with a friendly, team-oriented environment!
• Generous benefits package including medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) with company match
• Education & personal development reimbursement program
• Generous vacation and paid holidays package
• Company events, and lunches
• Referral Bonus

About Advantech

Founded in 1983, Advantech is a leader in providing trusted innovative embedded and automation products and solutions. Advantech offers comprehensive system integration, hardware, software, customer-centric design services, and global logistics support; all backed by industry-leading front and back-office e-business solutions. Advantech has always been an innovator in the development and manufacture of high-quality, high-performance computing platforms.

We cooperate closely with our partners to help provide complete solutions for a wide array of applications across a diverse range of industries. To realize our corporate vision of Enabling an Intelligent Planet, Advantech will continue collaborating and partnering for Smart city & IoT Solutions.

World-class Recognition

Advantech is an authorized alliance partner of both Intel® and Microsoft®. Our customers will find the technologies we use inside our products to be widely compatible with other products in the global marketplace. In 2018 and 2019, Interbrand, the world-renowned brand consulting firm, once again recognized Advantech efforts to build a trusted, global brand; it also symbolizes a promise we gave to our business partners, which was to do our best to keep building a trustworthy brand that is recognized everywhere in the world. Advantech was selected as Interbrand’s #5 best Taiwan Global Brand in 2018.

Work Authorization:

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations (ITAR), applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8. U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. More information can be found at https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/itar.html

Advantech is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We accept applications directly from candidates only and will not be responsible for any recruiting agency fees absent a formal agreement.