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Hardware Engineer

Kelly Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom
Auburn, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 1/2/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/23/2026

Electrical Hardware Engineer
Kelly SETT, a managed solution provider and business unit of Kelly Services, Inc., is currently seeking an
Electrical Hardware Engineer
for a multi-year engagement at one of our Global clients' Research and Development facilities in Auburn, MI
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Our client develops electronics, embedded systems, and magnetics, used in precision motor-controlled applications across multiple global industries.

This role is a full-time, fully benefited position. As a Kelly SETT employee, you will be eligible for Medical, Dental, 401K and a variety of other benefits to choose from. You will also receive a generous paid time off allowance, including holiday, vacation, and sick/personal time.

Position Overview
You will be a mid to senior level individual contributor on Mando's R&D team that develops custom electronic hardware for automotive applications. You will design, prototype and test custom electronics to the component level.

Key Job Responsibilities

  • Deconstruct and combine, customer and internal requirements to specify hardware design requirements.
  • Design (or verify if reusing existing design) analog & digital electronic circuits that meet customer requirements including selecting the capacitors, resistors, IC, etc.
  • Board design & bring up using Altium
  • Test and debug circuit with the aid of customer requirements, schematic, bill of materials, PCB layout artwork, etc.
  • Develop tests (or update if reusing existing tests) to validate design to customer requirements.
  • Work with suppliers to select appropriate components and ensure supply throughout the life of designed part
  • Support calibration and EOL FFT stands and equipment
  • Research innovative and effective solutions (circuit designs, component selections, etc.) to customer requirements
  • Manage database of approved parts used across multiple projects

Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical/Electronic Engineering with 5 years hardware design or MS in Electrical/Electronic Engineering with 3 years hardware design, preferably for automotive systems (engine controls, or steering, or braking, etc.)
  • Design, Build, and Test of Electrical Hardware Design and Processor Interfaces

  • Design and develop schematics, analysis of circuit design to requirements, verification of performance to requirements

  • Power Electronics Design and Analysis of 3 Phase machines - DC to DC conversion
  • Analog & Digital Circuit design including power conversions, specifying convertors/invertors, board layout, system components.
  • Schematic Capture and Circuit Analysis Tools

  • Cadence for circuit analysis

  • Altium for PCB layout

Preferred Competencies

  • Familiarity with motors, sensors, and electromagnetics (EMI/EMC) desirable
  • Familiarity with digital communications protocols (CAN, LIN, SENT, I2C, SPI, etc.) desirable
  • Strong knowledge of Electrical Hardware and Microprocessor Architecture for automotive systems

  • Experience determining the frequencies, impedances, mosfets

  • Microcontroller programming to test hardware functionality a plus

  • Bench, Test Stand, and Vehicle debug and analysis

Additional Useful Skills/experience

  • Knowledge of Freescale, Infineon, TI processors
  • Knowledge of ISO 26262 Safety Standards and Requirements is preferred
  • Knowledge of Customer Specific CAN tools and Requirements (CANalyzer, CANape Preferred)
  • Matlab/Simulink
  • Excel/Visual Basic
  • Thermal Analysis Tools, Ex. Ansys or Flowtherm
  • IPC 610 Standards Class II and III, and other applicable IPC Standards Preferred

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As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

Why Kelly Engineering/Technology – Project Services?

Looking to work with leading project management organizations at top companies around the world? That's where we come in. At Kelly Engineering and Kelly Technology, our Project Services Teams create expert talent solutions to solve the world's most critical challenges. We connect you with opportunities to work on intriguing, innovative, and high-visibility projects—all with a schedule that works for you. Do you prefer the variety and flexibility of short-term projects? Or are looking for a long-term opportunity? Either way, our connections and expertise will help you take your career exactly where you want to go. That's just good planning.

About Kelly
Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we're obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it's about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It's the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It's the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

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