Hardware Engineering
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Highly skilled, highly motivated.
A handpicked group of qualified and motivated industry leaders makes up the RIM Hardware Engineering team. At RIM, you will have the opportunity to work with, and learn from, the best. The RIM Hardware Engineering team is responsible for the planning, designing, and development of RIM wireless products. This team is comprised of a variety of engineering disciplines including:
- Industrial Design
- Graphic Design
- Mechanical Design
- Audio and Acoustics
- Display
- Power and Battery
- Digital Design
- Radio Frequency
- Chipset Development
- Verification and Mechanical Design
Here are some of the positions you will find within the Hardware Engineering area:
Mechanical Designer
As a member of the Mechanical Engineering team, the Mechanical Designer is responsible for designing thin wall plastic injection molded parts, die castings, sheet metal parts, keypads and other electro mechanical component parts for BlackBerry® products and assemblies. This role is responsible for design work using Pro/Engineer 3D CAD software, and will interface with tooling, PCB layout, RF, base band, acoustic, manufacturing, industrial design and other internal RIM groups in order to produce cost effective, high quality and highly functional products. Other responsibilities include supporting product definition, concept generation, creating part drawings, investigating new packaging technologies, interfacing with suppliers, and qualifying parts and assemblies. Mechanical Designers also perform tolerance analysis and part and drawing release.
Digital Hardware Designer
The Designer is responsible for the design, prototyping, debugging and verification of digital hardware for wireless devices. The role requires extensive knowledge of digital electronics design with a strong bias towards mobile processor, memories, digital and analog baseband circuitry. Responsibilities include defining test hardware, developing test software, writing up verification plans and reports, as well as verifying processor-based sub-systems with logic analyzers and high-speed scopes. The person will interface regularly with other engineering groups (hardware, software, factory, component qualification, etc.) and with external electronic components suppliers.
Audio Engineer
This role is generally filled by a seasoned engineer with cell phone experience, ranging from component selection to DSP tuning. The role demands implementing hardware and acoustic devices as well as optimizing the DSP parameter to yield world-class audio performance.
Reliability Test Engineer
The Reliability Test Engineer works closely with different engineering design groups on new product introduction. This includes reliability testing and reliability monitoring activities, design, developing and validating RF / electrical test software and related hardware fixtures to automate test stations for new products. Additionally, the person in this role maintains and improves reliability test stations for existing products, and works with other reliability personnel to perform and supervise failure analysis activities (after reliability tests to identify failure root cause and feed back the information to engineering design groups).
