Hardware at TRACTIAN
The Hardware team is responsible for designing and improving our IoT devices, dealing with every step of the development process, ranging from PCB design, firmware programming, case design, validations and certifications, always aiming to build trustworthy products that can be produced at a mass scale.
What you'll do
As a Senior Hardware Certifications Engineer, your job is to excel at standard operating procedures and quality management systems, like those required by regulatory agencies such as UL, FCC, IFT, ANATEL, INMETRO, and IEC. You will work alongside our best engineers on developing and adapting our devices to meet strict international criteria, aiding the company in its mission to modernize the factory floor worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring our hardware components and systems comply with industry standards and regulations
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including hardware engineering, manufacturing, and product management, to ensure certification guidelines are followed throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Coordinate and execute certification tests, both in-house and with external laboratories, to verify compliance with relevant standards.
- Generate comprehensive test plans, protocols, and reports to document certification efforts and outcomes.
- Work closely with hardware engineering, firmware engineering, and software engineering teams to ensure alignment of design and development activities with certification goals.
- Identify and interpret applicable certification requirements and develop strategies to achieve and maintain compliance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in hardware certification.
- Expertise in FCC, CE, IFT, UL Markings, IEC, and other regulatory compliance standards.
- Experience with IECEx, ATEX, and other hazardous locations certifications.
- Strong understanding of safety and functioning electronics standards and certifications such as IEC 61010 and IEC 61557-12.
- Familiarity with ISO 9001 procedures and requirements.
- Experience with EMC, IME and other RF compliance tests.
- Fluent English proficiency.
Bonus Points
- Familiarity with HALT and ALT testing (temperature, humidity, vibration, etc.).
- Experience with calibration and accuracy standards such as ISO 17025.
- Fluent Spanish proficiency.
Top Skills
What We Do
Tractian is a machine intelligence company that offers industrial monitoring systems. Tractian builds streamlined hardware-software solutions to give maintenance technicians and industrial decision-makers comprehensive oversight of their operations. It is democratizing access to sophisticated real-time monitoring and asset operations tools.
Tractian's solutions are used in environments that address a combined total of 5% of global industrial output. The company’s broad market reach is evidenced in its customer base from various industries, such as John Deere, Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Goodyear, Carrier, Johnson Controls, and Bimbo, the owner of the brands Little Bites and Thomas Bagels. Tractian's customers see a 6-12x ROI with savings of $6,000 per monitored machine annually on average.
In a major milestone and a first for the industry, Tractian launched the AI-Assisted Maintenance category in the industrial sector. In this new paradigm, artificial intelligence identifies machine problems and suggests preventive actions to be taken, giving invaluable insight and support to maintenance professionals. It is important to highlight that the intent of Assisted Maintenance is firmly rooted in augmenting maintenance professionals to provide more assertive diagnosis with human-in-the-loop feedback.
Tractian's mission is to elevate this category of workers in a highly impactful way. The Assisted Maintenance category will provide unimaginable support for maintenance professionals. By combining shop floor expertise with our technology, maintainers will be able to anticipate and address issues with unprecedented accuracy and speed
