Festo inspires people and organizations around the world with innovative solutions for industrial automation. We are an independent family business and offer more than 20,000 employees the opportunity to take bold steps, realize their ideas, and take on responsibility. As a team, we grow by tackling challenges together and we welcome everyone who wants to move the world with us.

Senior Hardware Design Engineer (Electronics)

AdCode:  15179
City:  Sofia
Custom Field 3: 
Custom Field 4:  Full Time
Custom Field 2:  Research, Development & Engineering
Company:  Festo Bulgaria EOOD

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.

 

Contact person: Aleksandar Antonov Angelov, +359(2)4631-352

 

Your global benefits at a glance:

We look forward to your application and to getting to know you!