Electronics
Engineering
—
Technical
Skills
DO MAINS
AT
A
G LANCE
01
Circuit
Design
&
Analysis
02
Analog
&
Mixed
-
Signal
03
Digital
Design
&
HDL
04
Embedded
Systems
&
Firmware
05
Power
Electronics
&
Energy
06
PCB
Design
&
Manufacturing
07
Signal
Processing
&
RF
08
Instrumentation
,
Test
&
Validation
09
Control
Systems
&
Automation
10
Software
,
Scripting
&
Data
11
Standards
,
Compliance
&
Quality
12
Design
Process
&
Collaboration
01
Circuit
Design
&
Analysis
12
skills
Schematic
capture
&
netlist
review
DC
operating
point
&
bias
analysis
SPICE
simulation
(
LTspice
,
PSpice
,
ngspice
)
Filter
design
—
Sallen
-
Key
,
Butterworth
,
Chebyshev
Impedance
matching
networks
Noise
figure
&
SNR
budgeting
Worst
-
case
&
Monte
Carlo
tolerance
analysis
Bode
plot
&
loop
stability
analysis
Thermal
analysis
&
component
derating
Component
selection
&
second
-
sourcing
Design
of
experiments
(
DoE
)
Signal
integrity
fundamentals
02
Analog
&
Mixed
-
Signal
12
skills
Op
-
amp
topologies
(
inverting
,
non
-
inverting
,
difference
)
Instrumentation
&
transimpedance
amplifiers
Active
filter
implementation
Voltage
references
&
precision
biasing
LDO
&
linear
regulator
design
ADC
/
DAC
selection
and
interfacing
Anti
-
aliasing
&
reconstruction
filters
Sensor
signal
conditioning
Comparator
&
hysteresis
design
Oscillator
design
—
crystal
,
RC
,
PLL
Mixed
-
signal
grounding
&
layout
practice
Precision
measurement
techniques
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03
Digital
Design
&
HDL
12
skills
Combinational
&
sequential
logic
design
Finite
state
machine
(
FSM
)
design
Verilog
RTL
development
SystemVerilog
&
VHDL
Testbench
&
assertion
-
based
verification
Logic
synthesis
&
optimization
Static
timing
analysis
(
STA
)
Clock
domain
crossing
(
CDC
)
FPGA
design
—
Vivado
,
Quartus
ASIC
/
SoC
design
flow
Low
-
power
digital
design
techniques
Formal
verification
basics
04
Embedded
Systems
&
Firmware
14
skills
C
/
C
++
for
embedded
targets
Bare
-
metal
&
RTOS
development
(
FreeRTOS
,
Zephyr
)
ARM
Cortex
-
M
/
Cortex
-
A
architectures
STM
32,
ESP
32,
PIC
,
AVR
,
RP
2040
Peripheral
drivers
—
I
²
C
,
SPI
,
UART
,
CAN
,
USB
Bootloader
&
OTA
firmware
updates
Low
-
power
&
sleep
-
mode
optimization
Interrupt
handling
&
DMA
JTAG
/
SWD
in
-
circuit
debugging
Unit
testing
(
Unity
,
Ceedling
)
Embedded
Linux
&
Yocto
Device
tree
configuration
Memory
-
constrained
code
optimization
MISRA
C
coding
standards
05
Power
Electronics
&
Energy
12
skills
DC
-
DC
topologies
—
buck
,
boost
,
flyback
,
forward
,
LLC
Gate
driver
design
MOSFET
/
IGBT
/
SiC
/
GaN
device
selection
Magnetics
design
—
inductors
&
transformers
Compensation
&
control
loop
tuning
Battery
management
systems
(
BMS
)
BLDC
/
PMSM
motor
control
with
field
-
oriented
control
Inverter
&
rectifier
design
Thermal
management
&
heatsink
sizing
EMI
/
EMC
mitigation
in
switching
supplies
Efficiency
&
loss
modeling
Solar
/
MPPT
power
conversion
06
PCB
Design
&
Manufacturing
14
skills
Multilayer
stackup
design
High
-
speed
routing
&
signal
integrity
Differential
pair
routing
Controlled
impedance
&
length
matching
Power
&
ground
plane
strategy
Placement
for
manufacturability
DFM
/
DFA
review
IPC
-2221 &
IPC
-
A
-610
compliance
Altium
Designer
KiCad
Cadence
Allegro
Gerber
/
ODB
++
generation
BOM
&
assembly
documentation
Design
rule
checking
(
DRC
/
ERC
)
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07
Signal
Processing
&
RF
12
skills
Fourier
analysis
&
FFT
implementation
Digital
filter
design
—
FIR
/
IIR
Sampling
theory
&
aliasing
control
Modulation
schemes
—
FSK
,
PSK
,
QAM
,
OFDM
Wireless
protocols
—
BLE
,
Wi
-
Fi
,
LoRa
,
Zigbee
Antenna
design
&
matching
RF
front
-
end
design
S
-
parameter
&
network
analysis
Spectrum
analysis
&
EMI
pre
-
compliance
Time
-
domain
reflectometry
(
TDR
)
Error
correction
coding
Data
acquisition
&
digitization
pipelines
08
Instrumentation
,
Test
&
Validation
12
skills
Oscilloscope
operation
&
probing
techniques
Logic
analyzers
&
protocol
decoding
Spectrum
&
network
analyzers
Source
measure
units
(
SMU
) &
DMMs
Automated
test
with
Python
&
PyVISA
LabVIEW
&
NI
DAQ
systems
Environmental
&
thermal
chamber
testing
HALT
/
HASS
reliability
testing
Design
verification
test
(
DVT
)
planning
Root
-
cause
failure
analysis
EMC
pre
-
scan
&
compliance
testing
Test
fixture
&
bed
-
of
-
nails
design
09
Control
Systems
&
Automation
10
skills
PID
controller
tuning
State
-
space
&
transfer
function
modeling
Laplace
and
z
-
transform
analysis
Motor
control
loops
—
current
,
speed
,
position
PLC
programming
—
ladder
logic
,
structured
text
SCADA
&
HMI
integration
Industrial
networks
—
Modbus
,
Profibus
,
EtherCAT
Robotics
kinematics
&
actuation
Sensor
fusion
fundamentals
System
identification
&
modeling
10
Software
,
Scripting
&
Data
11
skills
Python
for
engineering
automation
MATLAB
&
Simulink
C
/
C
++
systems
programming
Git
&
GitHub
workflows
Linux
shell
scripting
(
Bash
)
Jupyter
,
NumPy
&
pandas
CI
/
CD
pipelines
—
Jenkins
,
GitHub
Actions
SQL
&
database
fundamentals
Excel
/
VBA
engineering
calculators
Technical
plotting
&
visualization
Hardware
version
control
(
Altium
365,
Git
LFS
)
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11
Standards
,
Compliance
&
Quality
12
skills
IEC
61000
EMC
immunity
&
emissions
FCC
Part
15
compliance
CE
marking
&
EU
directives
UL
/
IEC
62368-1
product
safety
RoHS
&
REACH
material
compliance
ISO
9001
quality
systems
ISO
26262
functional
safety
(
automotive
)
IEC
61508 /
DO
-254
hardware
assurance
FMEA
&
risk
analysis
8
D
root
-
cause
problem
solving
Reliability
prediction
—
MTBF
,
MIL
-
HDBK
-217
Six
Sigma
&
statistical
process
control
12
Design
Process
&
Collaboration
11
skills
Requirements
capture
&
traceability
(
DOORS
,
Jama
)
Design
reviews
&
peer
review
Technical
documentation
&
datasheet
authoring
Cross
-
functional
work
with
firmware
&
mechanical
Supplier
qualification
&
sourcing
BOM
cost
reduction
&
value
engineering
Prototype
bring
-
up
&
bench
debugging
Project
planning
—
Agile
,
Scrum
,
Gantt
Manufacturing
handoff
&
NPI
support
Customer
-
facing
technical
presentations
Mentoring
&
team
leadership
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