Top Entry Level Hardware Engineer Jobs in Detroit, MI

Lead hardware engineering activities for automotive Power Distribution Boxes and Battery Disconnect Units in low- and high-voltage environments. Design and review circuits, schematics, PCB layouts, and test cases; perform simulation, worst-case analysis, troubleshooting, testing, validation, and board bring-up. Communicate with customers, guide distributed team members, track requirements, and deliver project milestones on schedule.

Design, develop, validate, and release mechatronics hardware for vehicle sensing, access, chassis, propulsion, and electronic control systems. Coordinate Product Development Team meetings, suppliers, plant personnel, and cross-functional engineering teams. Manage specifications, interface documents, engineering work orders, timing plans, DFMEA activities, troubleshooting, sourcing support, technical analysis, and product improvements for prototype and production vehicles.

Design and develop wireless power transfer and energy-harvesting hardware for IoT and wearable devices. Apply power electronics, RF and electromagnetic theory to create ICs and circuits, integrate solutions into scalable systems, optimize energy efficiency, and drive sustainable innovation for large sensor networks.

Designs and maintains high-speed digital hardware for Nokia Service Router products. Responsibilities include ultra-high-speed PCB circuit design, simulation, verification testing, board bring-up, laboratory debugging, and taking complex board designs from concept through production release. The role requires collaboration with engineering teams, ownership of hardware integrity, and practical use of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and digital debugging tools.