Senior Hardware Design Engineer (Electronics)
- Festo
- Sofia, Bulgaria
- BGN 45,000 – BGN 60,000
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
Skills
- Analog circuit design
- Digital circuit design
- PCB layout
- EMC compliance
- Schematic Capture
- Prototype bring-up and debug
- Design for Manufacturing (DFM)




