IoT Hardware Evaluation & Customization Engineer
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About the Role
We are looking for a hands-on Hardware Evaluation & Customization Engineer to lead our technical relationship with manufacturing partners. You will audit supplier designs, run l.
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Responsibilities
- Audit supplier designs, schematics, BOMs, and datasheets
- Run lab and field validation on supplier samples
- Request and validate hardware customizations from suppliers
- Modify, reflash, harden, and debug firmware on supplier modules
- Maintain supplier scorecard on quality, lead time, responsiveness, IP protection
- Investigate field failures and feed findings back to suppliers
- Coordinate SASO, CE, and FCC submissions
- Identify products for local assembly or final customization in Dammam
- Provide technical support to production, QC, and field installation teams
Requirements
- Hands on experience in hardware evaluation and customization
- Experience with supplier schematics, BOMs, and datasheets
- Experience with firmware modification on ESP32, STM32, MTK, Quectel modules
- Ability to run lab tests (EMC, thermal, IP rating, RF/antenna, battery life)
- Experience with certification submissions (SASO, CE, FCC)
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Role Overview
- We are looking for a hands on Hardware Evaluation & Customization Engineer to lead our technical relationship with manufacturing partners.
- You will audit supplier designs, run lab and field validation on samples, drive customizations on firmware and hardware, and build the in house knowledge base.
- Over time, you will identify products where local assembly or finishing in Dammam makes financial sense.
Key Responsibilities
- Supplier evaluation: Read and critique supplier schematics, BOMs, and datasheets; identify cost cutting, weak component choices, undersized regulators, fake branded ICs, poor antenna design.
- Sample validation: Run lab tests on supplier samples EMC pre checks, thermal, IP rating verification, RF/antenna performance, battery life claims, vibration.
- Customization: Request and validate hardware customizations (housing, connectors, antenna placement, sensor additions, branding) from suppliers and verify delivery.
- Firmware customization: Modify, reflash, harden, and debug firmware on supplier modules (ESP32, STM32, MTK, Quectel, etc.) not from scratch, but enough to own the device behavior.
- Supplier scorecard: Maintain a quality / lead time / responsiveness / IP protection scorecard across all current and candidate suppliers.
- Field reliability: Investigate field failures in Saudi worksite conditions and feed findings back to suppliers as design change requests.
- Certification support: Coordinate SASO, CE, and FCC submissions; ensure supplier documentation supports certification.
- Localization roadmap: Identify 1 2 products where in house assembly or final customization in Dammam is financially viable; lead the technical transition.
- Cross team support: Provide technical support to production, QC, and field installation teams.
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