Role Overview

- Within the R&D; Hardware function, responsible for end-to-end hardware design, development, and validation of electronic products.

- Combines strong hands-on hardware engineering ownership with market-facing exposure, supporting recent product development and business growth initiatives.

Core Purpose

- Drive hardware architecture, detailed design, and release of new products while ensuring cost, quality, reliability, and manufacturability targets are met.

- Act as a technical bridge between R&D;, Operations, Product Management, and customers/channel partners.

Key Responsibilities

New Product Development (End-to-End Ownership)

- Define overall product architecture across hardware, firmware, and software.

- Select and finalize key components, tools, and technologies.

- Develop block diagrams, signal flow, schematics, BOMs, and part lists.

- Perform power budget estimation, MTBF and component lifetime calculations.

- Execute DFMEA, DFM, and DFT activities and ensure closure before release.

- Support board builds, validation testing, reliability testing, and corrective actions.

- Prepare hardware for engineering and production release.

- Provide inputs for product documentation, manuals, demos, and application notes.

Design Governance & Standards

- Develop and enforce design guidelines, SOPs, and hardware design standards.

- Lead and participate in technical design reviews to ensure process adherence and quality compliance.

Project Planning & Execution

- Prepare and own project plans for assigned hardware development streams.

- Track schedule performance, cost vs BOM targets, and permissible design revisions.

- Monitor SPI (Schedule Performance Index)



and ensure on-time documentation and releases.

Project Monitoring & Stakeholder Coordination

- Conduct periodic reviews with delivery units and cross-functional teams.

- Manage budgets, effort tracking, and timesheets.

- Collaborate closely with Testing, Operations, Warehouse, Logistics, and Product Management.

Customer Support & Issue Resolution

- Handle customer complaints and field issues through structured RCA.

- Drive design corrections and support re-validation and release for testing.

Knowledge & Capability Development

- Contribute to organizational knowledge repositories and best practices.

- Track industry trends, emerging technologies, and process improvements.

- Support technology roadmap creation and continuous improvement initiatives.

People & Team Leadership

- Conduct performance reviews and provide structured technical feedback.

- Mentor team members and support capability building within the hardware function.

Stakeholder & Market Interaction

- Engage with customers, dealers, and channel partners for business development support.

- Participate in global business forums, trade delegations, and industry bodies for networking and market insight.

Candidate Profile Snapshot

- BE/BTech (Electronics / Instrumentation / Telecom / Electrical) with MBA (Marketing).

- ~10 years of experience in hardware design and development.

- Strong expertise in schematic design, PCB lifecycle, reliability engineering, and cost optimization.

- Exposure to customer-facing roles, product management interaction, and market feedback integration.

- Ability to balance deep technical ownership with cross-functional and commercial alignment.

📌 Sr. Hardware Engineer (Pune)
🏢 GIC
📍 Pune