Head of Hardware Engineering – Smart Home

The Role:

The Head of Hardware Engineering, Smart Home is one of the key members of the Engineering Management team of Smart Home Group.This person will lead and manage the team responsible for design and development of all aspects of the hardware design of Smart Home Group’s leading products.This position requires someone with a combination of strong technical skills and leadership capabilities. We’re willing to groom a strong technical leader. The Head of Hardware Engineering, Smart Home is responsible for ensuring that all project work is scheduled and completed on time, within budget, and to Logitech’s demanding quality standards.This is an ideal position for an accomplished Technical Leader who is ready to make a difference and continuously create innovative and exciting new products that are critical to our customers’ success. If you love Hardware Engineering, want to work in a team that is focused on world class innovation, we want to talk with you!

Your Contribution:

Move fast. Speak up. Decide and own. Drive change. Exceed customer needs. These are some of the winning behaviors you’ll need for success at Logitech.

The role offers an opportunity to be both lead and be hands on in the design process acting as architect, engineer, and designer for some key projects. This allows the Head of Hardware Engineering, Smart Home to lead by example and pilot cutting edge approaches. As an expert technical contributor, the Head of Hardware Engineering, Smart Home is accountable for driving innovation and invention, overseeing all technical work, setting and maintaining design standards, introducing and incorporating the latest design methods and tools, improving internal and external design practices, and keeping our envied reputation for reliability and technology at the forefront of the industry.

Key Qualifications:

For consideration, you must bring the following minimum skills and behaviors to our team:

• 7+ years of experience with progressively increasing responsibilities in product design, hardware engineering and team leadership
• Must have strong hands-on knowledge and experience with hardware systems, parts and components such as: audio, video, touch, LCD, antenna, radio, plastics, textures, bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, RF, IR
• Ability to create cost effective solutions that meet aggressive product feature, cost, quality, performance, and time to market requirements
• Experience supporting complete product solutions from concept to grave
• Experience with digital and analog design and development methodologies
• Experience with schematic capture tools – Orcad capture, Altium, Allegro etc
• Experience with layout tools – e.g. Allegro, PCB Pads (mentor graphics)
• Experience of debugging using high speed scopes and other tools
• Experience working with offshore ODMs, JDMs, and CMs
• A“go-getter” with intrinsic ability to get things done and deliver winning products
• Superior problem solving skills: issue identification, problem structuring, analysis, and development of recommendations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong leadership skills

In addition, preferable skills and behaviors include:

• Experience as technical/team lead of 5-10
• Experience with Smart Home hardware technology

Education:

• B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering. M.S. degree preferred

Logitech is the sweet spot for people who are passionate about products, making a mark, and having fun doing it. As a company, we’re small and flexible enough for every person to take initiative and make things happen. But we’re big enough in our portfolio, and reach, for those actions to have a global impact. That’s a pretty sweet spot to be in and we’re always striving to keep it that way.

“ All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.”

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