Job Description

Overview:
QSC thrives where innovative technology and compelling audio-visual experiences intersect. For over 50 years, QSC has pioneered the technology and solutions that enable digital collaboration and meeting experiences, live performance audio, themed entertainment, and immersive cinema for our customers and partners around the world. A globally recognized innovator in the design, engineering, and manufacture of category-leading high-performance loudspeakers, digital mixers, power amplifiers, audio processors, digital cinema solutions, video and control products.


The Manager of Hardware will be responsible for building and leading teams of PCB designers and sustaining engineers in our QSC India office location. The Manager must have a robust hardware design and sustaining background, including running effective engineering teams.


By joining the QSC team, you will help establish a new HW sustaining and PCB layout team in our Bangalore Design Center. You will be leading the PCB layout effort of the team, including detailed implementation and providing day-to-day guidance for the PCB designers while maintaining a close collaboration with design engineers in multiple US locations. You will be exposed to a challenging, collaborative, fun, and innovative environment. We encourage employees to take ownership, to color outside the lines, and to imagine possibilities. Our culture is casual but dynamic, with cross-functional teams collaborating to create memorable audio-visual experiences that bring joy to people, wherever they are. At QSC, fun and hard work go hand in hand. Join us and make a difference in the way people experience movies, meetings, presentations, live performances, and much more.


This position is based in Bengaluru, India. Responsibilities:

• Build and lead PCB layout engineering team developing a range of products within the audio, video & control industry
• Manage all activities associated with components\xe2\x80\x99 life cycle longevity, ECAD Library management, and PCB layout design
• Work collaboratively with the design engineering team in multiple US locations
• Work with the NPI team in USA and China/Mexico to ensure PCB release documentation is complete and improves products manufacturability both at QSC manufacturing and CM sites
• In the longer-term build and lead a strong hardware engineering sustaining team to support issues arising from the manufacturing process and procurement needs
• Provide engineering support for EOL/LTB for components and materials
• Define technical and program direction, priority, and processes necessary to support the manufacture of products and improvement of manufacturing processes
• Work with the Sr Director of Hardware Engineering to develop, track, and communicate tasks to meet timing and feature/quality objectives for new product development and sustaining engineering projects
• Work closely with New Product Development, Manufacturing, Quality, and Test
• Responsible for acquiring, onboarding, setting goals, developing, and performance management of PCB layout engineering talent.
• Participates in design reviews and provides design feedback to peers and design partners.
• Performs other duties as assigned

These statements reflect the general details considered to describe the principal functions of the job and are not to be construed as detailed descriptions of the entire work requirements that may be inherent in the position. Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 7+ years of work experience designing, building, and testing analog and digital circuits and related subsystems, ideally in commercial or professional video or audio/video markets.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience

• Ability to coordinate a large number of simultaneous priorities, projects, complex problems, and strategic initiatives
• Superior problem-solving skills: issue identification, problem structuring, analysis, and development of recommendations.
• Effectively communicate with individuals at multiple levels of the organization, including manufacturing floor and executive management, as well as outside suppliers and CMs
• Ability to work in an environment where process and standards are often not well defined and to develop and work to standards where standards do not exist
• Ability to lead courageously, maintaining a solid position amidst opposition to resolve critical issues, and ability to navigate through the complexity
• Business agility to manage complexity, change, and uncertainty
• Hands-on, energetic, and a \xe2\x80\x9ccan do\xe2\x80\x9d attitude
• In-depth understanding of the electronic principles, control theory, and their applications

• Experience implementing hardware-software & embedded concepts (FPGAs, SoCs, device drivers, soft-core processors, microcontrollers, micro-code)
• Excellent communication skills \xe2\x80\x93 verbal, written, and presentation
• Results-driven, self-motivated, and enthusiastic