Senior Electronics Design Specialist

🏗 We're Hiring: Senior Electronics Design Specialist
Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior
Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About Us
We are a construction and infrastructure-focused organization committed to delivering innovative, reliable, and high-quality engineering solutions. Our activities span infrastructure development, construction projects, industrial systems, facilities management, and technology-enabled operations. We emphasize engineering excellence, product reliability, technical innovation, safety, and continuous improvement across our projects and services.
We are seeking an experienced and technically proficient Senior Electronics Design Specialist to lead electronic design activities, develop hardware solutions, and support the integration of electronic systems into products, equipment, and infrastructure applications. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in circuit design, PCB development, component selection, hardware verification, technical documentation, and cross-functional engineering collaboration.
The Role
As a Senior Electronics Design Specialist, you will be responsible for designing, developing, evaluating, and optimizing electronic circuits, printed circuit boards, embedded hardware, and electronic subsystems. You will work closely with hardware engineers, firmware developers, mechanical engineers, manufacturing teams, testing specialists, and project stakeholders to transform technical requirements into reliable, manufacturable, and cost-effective electronic solutions.
This role requires strong analytical capabilities, practical electronics knowledge, and a structured approach to design verification, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management. You will contribute to the complete engineering process, from concept development and prototyping through validation, production readiness, and ongoing design improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Lead electronic design activities for new products, equipment, control systems, and technology-enabled engineering solutions.
Translate functional requirements, customer specifications, and system-level needs into detailed electronic design requirements.
Develop electronic architectures, circuit concepts, schematics, and hardware implementation strategies.
Design analog, digital, and mixed-signal electronic circuits according to project specifications.
Develop power management circuits, voltage regulation systems, signal conditioning circuits, and interface electronics.
Design and evaluate electronic circuits for sensors, actuators, controllers, communication devices, and monitoring systems.
Develop circuit designs that meet performance, reliability, safety, power consumption, and cost objectives.
Select appropriate electronic components based on electrical characteristics, operating conditions, availability, reliability, and lifecycle considerations.
Evaluate integrated circuits, microcontrollers, processors, memory devices, connectors, passive components, and power components.
Review component datasheets, application notes, reference designs, and manufacturer recommendations.
Perform component derating and tolerance analysis to ensure reliable operation under expected conditions.
Assess component obsolescence risks and identify suitable alternatives to maintain long-term product availability.
Develop complete electronic schematics using appropriate electronic design automation (EDA) tools.
Design printed circuit boards (PCBs) for prototypes, pilot production, and manufacturing release.
Define PCB stack-ups, layer configurations, routing constraints, grounding strategies, and power distribution requirements.
Apply design-for-manufacturability (DFM), design-for-assembly (DFA), and design-for-testability (DFT) principles.
Optimize PCB layouts for signal integrity, thermal performance, electromagnetic compatibility, and mechanical integration.
Review component placement, routing clearances, trace widths, via structures, and manufacturing constraints.
Assess high-speed signal paths and impedance requirements where applicable.
Develop grounding, shielding, filtering, and decoupling strategies to minimize noise and interference.
Evaluate electromagnetic interference (EMI) risks during circuit design and recommend appropriate mitigation measures.
Design protection circuits for overvoltage, overcurrent, reverse polarity, electrostatic discharge, and other relevant electrical hazards.
Develop power supply and conversion circuits, including DC-DC converters, regulators, and battery management interfaces where required.
Evaluate power consumption, efficiency, heat dissipation, and operating margins for electronic assemblies.
Perform circuit calculations and simulations to validate design assumptions before hardware prototyping.
Use suitable simulation tools to evaluate analog behavior, transient response, frequency response, and other electrical characteristics.
Conduct tolerance analysis and sensitivity assessments to understand variations in component and circuit performance.
Design interfaces between electronic hardware, embedded controllers, communication modules, and external systems.
Support the development of electronic interfaces for Ethernet, USB, UART, SPI, I²C, CAN, and other relevant communication protocols.
Collaborate with firmware engineers to define hardware interfaces, pin assignments, peripheral requirements, and startup behavior.
Ensure electronic designs provide adequate diagnostic capabilities, test access, and system observability.
Evaluate sensor interfacing, signal acquisition, analog-to-digital conversion, and digital signal processing requirements where applicable.
Design electronic circuits for industrial monitoring, automation, control, instrumentation, and infrastructure applications as required.
Support the development of control electronics for motors, actuators, relays, switching devices, and other electromechanical systems.
Coordinate with mechanical engineering teams to ensure electronic assemblies fit within enclosure, mounting, thermal, and environmental constraints.
Review enclosure design, connector placement, cable routing, grounding provisions, and service accessibility.
Assess electronic hardware performance under temperature variation, humidity, vibration, shock, and other environmental conditions.
Incorporate suitable component ratings, conformal coating requirements, sealing provisions, and protection measures where necessary.
Evaluate thermal behavior through calculations, simulation, prototype measurements, and design reviews.
Recommend heat sinks, thermal interfaces, component spacing, airflow improvements, or alternative components when required.
Develop prototypes and coordinate the assembly of initial electronic hardware samples.
Review prototype builds to identify design issues, assembly difficulties, component mismatches, and layout limitations.
Conduct initial power-on checks and functional evaluations of newly developed circuits.
Troubleshoot hardware faults using oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, logic analyzers, signal generators, and other suitable instrumentation.
Analyze circuit behavior and measurement data to identify electrical abnormalities, signal integrity problems, and component failures.
Coordinate hardware verification and validation activities with testing and quality assurance teams.
Develop design verification plans, test procedures, expected results, and acceptance criteria.
Support engineering validation testing (EVT), design validation testing (DVT), and production validation testing (PVT) where applicable.
Verify that electronic assemblies meet defined functional, electrical, performance, and reliability requirements.
Support electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), electromagnetic interference (EMI), and electrostatic discharge (ESD) assessments.
Review test results and implement design modifications to address identified deficiencies.
Investigate recurring hardware failures and perform root cause analysis to identify underlying design or component issues.
Develop corrective actions and verify their effectiveness through repeat testing and engineering review.
Maintain traceability between design requirements, circuit documentation, verification procedures, and test results.
Prepare and maintain bills of materials (BOMs), schematic files, PCB layout files, Gerber files, assembly drawings, and fabrication outputs.
Develop design specifications, component selection records, interface documents, and engineering reports.
Maintain accurate revision histories and ensure electronic design files are controlled through approved document management processes.
Review engineering change requests and assess their impact on product functionality, manufacturing, compliance, and reliability.
Coordinate design revisions and ensure that updated documentation is communicated to relevant stakeholders.
Support configuration management activities to maintain consistency between approved designs, prototype hardware, and production units.
Collaborate with manufacturing engineers to resolve PCB fabrication, assembly, soldering, and testability issues.
Review fabrication and assembly feedback to improve board layouts and production processes.

Work arrangement
Yes