Engineering Electrical Engineer

Posted: Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Valid Thru: Thursday, 12 March 2026
Index Requested on: 02/10/2026 19:57:37
Indexed on: 02/10/2026 19:57:37

Location: Allen Park, MI, 48101, US

Industry: Automotive Sales and Repair
Occupational Category: 17-2071.00 - Architecture and Engineering
Type of Employment: FULL_TIME

Flex-N-Gate is hiring!

Description:

Summary

The eCAD Engineer leads electronic computeraided design (eCAD) activities for printed circuit boards (PCBs) for the automotive exterior lighting electronic systems and other emerging automotive electronics systems for Flex-N-Gate. This role focuses on developing and overseeing multilayer PCB layouts for automotive ECUs and cross-functional coordination to ensure robust products.


Core Competencies

  • Customer Focus
  • Communication
  • Critical Thinking
  • Team Work
  • Judgement and Decision Making
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Accountability and Dependability
  • Ethics and Integrity
  • Analytical
  • Systems Analysis and Evaluation
  • Mathematical Reasoning


Job Duties

  • Design, develop, characterize, optimize, validate, release, launch and maintain eCAD data for PCBs.
  • Ensure that schematics, PCB layouts, and manufacturing data comply with Flex-N-Gate standards, electrical performance, reliability, and manufacturability requirements.
  • Ensure end-to-end traceability of layouts to requirements using requirements management tools (e.g., Altium, Polarion ALM, DOORS, Jama).
  • Collaborate with multiple eCAD, CAD and manufacturing engineers globally to create products that meet customers' requirements.
  • Maintain libraries of components, schematics, layouts, symbols, footprints, part attributes and documentation.
  • Develop PCB stackups, routing strategies, impedance control, and constraints
  • Generate manufacturing and assembly outputs (Gerbers, ODB++, pickandplace, BOMs)
  • Manage PCB projects and report to program managers.
  • Provide Electronic support to manufacturing plants and the product engineering teams.
  • Comply with Flex-N-Gate and industry processes such as ASPICE, APQP Functional Safety (ISO 26262) and Cybersecurity.
  • Communicate and interface with OEM and suppliers.
  • Review OEM specifications and integrate customer requirements into eCAD.
  • Support system verification and validation planning (DVP& R), DFMEA contributions, and compliance reviews.
  • Provide technical support during development, launch, and production for issues related to electronic system behavior, requirements interpretation, and change management.
  • Maintain knowledge of automotive electronics technologies, communication protocols (CAN, CAN FD, LIN, hardwire I/O), and regulatory requirements.
  • Create and present technical information to other engineers and OEM customers through design reviews, technical discussions, and formal documentation.

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • Experience with eCAD in automotive electronics or similar complex systems.
  • Working knowledge of ASPICE system development processes and experience applying them to real projects.
  • Familiarity with ISO 26262 Functional Safety concepts at the hardware interface level.
  • Understanding of design rules for automotive communication networks (CAN, CAN FD, LIN), hardwire-based system interfaces and EMC.
  • Experience contributing to system design activities such as electronics design reviews, DFMEA, DVP& R, architecture development, or system validation.
  • Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills; ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

Preferred

  • Master’s degree in a related engineering discipline.
  • 5-10+ years’ experience in electronics design.
  • Hands-on experience using Polarion ALM, DOORS, or similar requirements management platforms.
  • Automotive electronics experience related to lighting, controllers, wiring harnesses, sensors or actuators.
  • Background in electronic system modeling, simulation, or analysis tools (e.g., PSpice, MathCAD, Altium, Ansys).
  • Exposure to EMC and Environmental requirements, thermal considerations and design-for-manufacturability principles.
  • Certification in PCB: IPC CID, PCE or equivalent. EMC/SI/PI Advanced Training Certification.
  • Knowledge of IPC standards (IPC2221, IPC7351, IPC610, etc.)

Responsibilities:

Please review the job description.

Educational requirements:

  • high school

Desired Skills:

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with 10 years of experience and/or Master of Science with 5 years of experience. Automotive electronics experience preferred.
  • Must understand DFMEAs, DVPR& Rs, reliability requirements and quality design and robust validation testing.
  • Experienced in circuit design and simulation
  • Worst Case Circuit Analysis using Math, CAD or equivalent.
  • EMC circuit design robustness and testing requirements for automotive products.
  • Embedded microcontroller application designer using C or C++. CAN and/or LIN buss programming ability a plus.
  • Circuit thermal analysis with CAD experience.
  • Ability to handle multiple projects. Can integrate OEM requirements into design while managing both supplier and OEM expectations.
  • Strong personal and communication skills.
  • Must work well with cross-functional teams.

Benefits:

Please see the job description for benefits.

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