Job Title: Product Design Engineer Senior
Duration: 10+ Months
Location: Mississauga, Ontario L5N 7J9
Work Mode: Hybrid - 3 days a week onsite
 
Job Summary:

• We’re reinventing how businesses operate at the Enterprise edge - helping them run faster, smarter, and more connected than ever before.
• A dynamic community of builders, doers, and problem solvers, we each play a unique role - shaping new technologies, bringing solutions to the market, and partnering with companies on the front line of business.
• Being a part of the client means making your mark as we make digital transformation a reality. It means growing into a leader at a world-class company that makes a distinct difference - because together, we have only just begun.
  The ideal candidate will participate in the product development process from concept to product launch.
• The emphasis will be on defining the solution that will be consistent with customer, industry, and regulatory requirements.
• They will be responsible for the design of the system and validating its integrity.
• Their contribution will ensure that the product at the sub-system and system level meets or exceeds performance targets, meets high quality standards, and maintains performance targets under manufacturing process variation at high volume.
• They must possess a solid analytical and practical knowledge of systems spanning electrical, software/OS, mechanical, RF, audio, and wireless design, and an understanding of a hardware development process.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs system feasibility studies and evaluates alternative technology applications.

• Collaborates with Product Management and Customers to decompose customer use cases into correct features for new product development.
• Defines the solutions and system requirements for highly complex system design projects.
• Represents systems engineering as technical contact on assigned projects.
• Successfully collaborates and communicates with software and hardware sub-system development teams.
• Integrates new technologies and solutions based on emerging market/industry technologies.
• Assimilates technology roadmaps in critical product areas.
• Lead product feature trade-offs for performance, cost and schedule, while meeting the customer expectations.
• Utilizes and develops tools to aid in the analysis and resolution of complex problems
• Evaluates competitor products through data driven competitive benchmarking.
• Manages and coordinates the activities of other engineering personnel and often performs technical project leadership.
• Mentors more junior-level personnel.
• Work in the agile development process to release products in a timely fashion
• Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Networks with key contacts outside their own area of expertise.
• Interacts with Product Management to provide technical responses to RFPs and RFIs, which lead to successful future engagement with key customers.
• Will be responsible for supporting lighthouse customer opportunities and accounts via the customer engagement methodology.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Required Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience or
• Master's degree and 4+ years related experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency in dealing with ambiguity and ability to stay focused and to clear barriers
• Able to clearly communicate complex concepts to broadly diverse audiences and guide both local and remote teams in achieving their goals.
• Strong ability to present detailed information at the appropriate level.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Fluent in English verbal & written language.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree and 8+ years’ experience
• Successfully held a recent role as a System Engineering role working on a product development effort that ultimately led to a successful Market launch/customer delivery
• Recent hands-on experience in the full lifecycle (cradle to grave) development of enterprise-class productivity devices and/or the associated application ecosystem is highly desirable
• Expertise in applying generative AI through advanced prompting as a fundamental competency for engineering excellence and innovation.
• Have a background in complex Software Projects, understanding of Android OS concepts
• Working knowledge of the Agile development process
• Experience in hardware design and implementation
• Experience in solutions for Payment/POS applications is a plus
• Experience in Android HAL, Framework, Security, and Applications.
• Recent working knowledge of latest wireless technologies spanning: (i.e.) 4G/LTE/5G NR, GNSS/UWB, Wi-Fi/802.11(x), NFC, HF/UHF-RFID, Bluetooth/BLE.
• Multiple languages are a plus

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 38.49/daily.