
Electronic Systems Technical Advisors - Hardware
Fridley, MNFull-time$145–191K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Electronic Systems Technical Advisor develops and validates electronic hardware for customer applications, including sensors, actuators, control units, harnesses, and system architectures. The role investigates complex hardware problems, leads validation and requirements work, and improves development processes. It also reviews and coaches less-experienced engineers and coordinates with suppliers and software teams to deliver prototype hardware.
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Job Duties
Utilize mechanical engineering knowledge to develop and validate electronic sensors, actuators, control units or harnesses to ensure the consistent operation of products in a variety of customer applications. Utilize Design and Application of Digital Electronics to specify components and architectures of electronic control units. Investigate highly specialized electronic hardware problems, understand causal mechanisms, recommend appropriate action, own problem resolution and document results. Create, manage, improve and apply electronic hardware development processes and tools including Product Problem Solving techniques - 7 step or 8D, design for EMC robustness, design for manufacturing and requirements analysis. Create Electrical Hardware Systems or electronics-based design or architecture concepts through specific knowledge of electrified (or electrical-based) systems to ensure a system design that adheres to both company and customer expectations. Obtain input and negotiate with electronic suppliers and software development teams and deliver prototype hardware to application engineering teams. Develop product systems validation plans from a variety of inputs to identify failure modes, while managing product risk and relative priority, and negotiate product requirements against capability to guide project scope utilizing Product Verification and Validation Management. Use knowledge of Systems Requirements Engineering to make decisions in the areas of hardware architecture, electrical design, and Mechanical Design that impact functionality, unit cost, and schedule. Establish acceptance criteria for the system of interest through analysis, allocation and negotiation, and track the status of requirements throughout the system lifecycle. Responsible for review of less-experienced developers/testers’ work to ensure robust, reusable, and efficient design. Responsible for coaching and developing the next generation of technical experts. Provide problem resolution leadership for complex systems with a high degree of ambiguity and often global business impact. Lead the development and improvement of work processes and systems across business units using experience with worst case analysis, DFMEA/PFMEA, and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). Specify electronic hardware, harnesses and interconnections that measure and control systems using Design and Application of Mechatronics Systems. Utilize knowledge with circuit design simulation to analyze the design functionality before the design is implemented in a Printed Circuit Board. Assist in the transfer of knowledge to lesser experienced engineers.
REQUIREMENTS: Positions require a Master’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Systems or Mechanical Engineering, or related field and 4 years of experience as an Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Systems or Design Engineer, or related position. Alternatively, the employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Systems or Mechanical Engineering, or related field and 6 years of experience as an Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Systems or Design Engineer, or related position. Experience to include: Design and Application of Digital Electronics; Electronic hardware development processes and tools including Product Problem Solving techniques - 7 step or 8D; Electrical Hardware Systems Design; Product Verification and Validation Management; Systems Requirements Engineering; Mechanical Design of Electrical Systems; Establish and track requirements throughout the system lifecycle; DFMEA/PFMEA, and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA); Harness and Interconnect design; Design and Application of Mechatronics Systems; Circuit design simulation.
Minimum Education Required
Master’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Systems or Mechanical Engineering, or related field
Minimum Experience Required
4 years of experience as an Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Systems or Design Engineer, or related position
Shift
First (Day)
Number of Openings
5
Compensation
$145,475.00 - $190,800.00 / Annually
Postal Code
55432
Job Type
Full Time
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
#MN247
Job Benefits
standard company benefits apply
Application Instructions
$145,475 - $190,800 per year
Any interested applicant may apply online at www.cummins.com or send resume with cover letter to Cummins Business Services, 26 Century Boulevard, Suite NT410, Nashville, TN 37214. Reference #MN247.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,961 open Hardware Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$145–191K/yr
- US median$131–201K/yr2,162 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $168K, is close to the US median midpoint ($170K) — in the middle half of Hardware Engineer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 14 open Hardware Engineer jobs in Minnesota and 2,961 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Hardware Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,485 postings).
- Education
- 1,858 of the 2,961 open Hardware Engineer jobs (63%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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