Principal Product Engineer - Electronics

North Star Staffing Solutions

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Farmington Hills, MI, us on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted February 23, 2026 Last posted February 23, 2026
Job description

North Star Staffing Solutions is a full cycle recruiting company for clients based nationwide. We specialize in placing experienced candidates in industries such as Accounting/Banking, Finance, Manufacturing, IT, Aerospace, Agriculture/Environmental, Biotech and Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Construction, Engineering, Healthcare, Hospitality, Legal, Restaurant/Food Services, Sales/Marketing, and Telecommunications.

As a member of this dynamic team, you will work as the Safety Engineer to work on a passive safety electronics project.  You must be able to define, lead, and support safety analyses. You will also be responsible for defining safety requirements for the systems and components and partner up with the entire engineering team to develop an effective solution for their implementation and validation. 

  • Experience in electronic design (hardware and software) or system engineering is a preferred.
  • Support and perform safety analyses on system hard and software 
  • Establish functional safety and corresponding processes within the project and business unit
  • Partner up with the design team to develop effective technical solutions  to achieve adequate HW and SW architectural levels
  • Customer and system requirements analysis

  • Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or similar discipline
  • Minimum 1 year experience in systems, electronics or software design 
  • Experience working in product development with a preferred focus on electronics and module design.
  • Basic understanding of V-Model development approach and its implementation
  • Highly organized with excellent attention to detail
  • Experience with design analysis and modeling tools to perform electronics worst case circuit design analysis. Knowledge of laboratory tools for performing product analysis and testing.
  • Knowledge of automotive electronics manufacturing processes preferred.
  • Excellent communication skills verbally and written
  • Able to work on a team and autonomously

This is a very unique opportunity to join a cross functional position with interfaces to all engineering disciplines and development teams in different countries all over the world. 

 If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, we would like to hear from you. Apply now!

Contact: Shondella Barkley

 

About this role

Summary

Lead safety analyses, define safety requirements, collaborate on electronics system development.

Job title

Principal Product Engineer - Electronics

Experience level

1+ years

Industry

manufacturing

Location requirements

Farmington Hills, MI, on-site; remote not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

electronic designsafety analysissystem requirementsV-Modelcircuit analysis

Preferred skills

automotive electronicslab toolsproduct development

Specializations

electronicssystem engineeringsafety analysishardwaresoftware
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Farmington Hills, MI, USA

On-site City