Hello, my name is

Simon Schirber

Electronic Design Engineer

Status

I am a electrical design engineer. I have industry experience in developing electrical hardware and embedded systems.

About Me

I am from Saint Paul Minnesota, completed my Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA with a focus on circuits and embedded systems and my Bachelors in Biomedical-Electronic Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

I am a driven engineer with a a passion for learning. I enjoy developing hardware and software systems that challenges me to innovate at all levels of design. I have demonstrated my ability to lead complex projects, automate. design and test processes. I have had proven success working in technical roles for various industries including at Rivian, Medtronic, and GE Healthcare. My passion for data driven optimization and willingness to take on difficult challenges has led to award recognition in previous positions. I believe that my experience in managing projects, working in team settings, and continuous learning will make me a valuable asset to any company. I am eager to bring my skillset and determination to roles where feel I can provide observable positive impact while continuing to learn.

My Experience

Industry Skills

PCB Design: Circuit Design, Altium, Cadence, SPICE simulation

90%

Python: Design process integration/automation

92%

VLSI Design: FPGAs, Verilog, VHDL, Vivado, Synopsys, TCL

84%

Software Design: C/C++ in embedded systems, js, arduino, matlab,

86%

Industry Experience

June 2022-September 2022

Rivian

Electronic Hardware Design and Test Engineer Intern

I helped redesign the hardware architecture for the electric Truck (R1T) and SUV (R1S) vehicles which added new sensor technology, reduced overall manufacturing costs, increased electrical distribution efficiencies, and optimized circuit performances. During this internship I conducted circuit design/simulation, BOM selection, Altium schematic design, PCBA layout, hardware evaluation and testing via oscilloscope analysis, physical sensor testing/classification, and software implementation of microcontrollers. Two of the ECU PCBs that I helped produce required me to properly manage hundreds of peripherals and resulted in complex PCBs over 200 schematic pages using Altium Designer.

January 2021 -September 2021

GE Healthcare

Hardware Electrical Engineer

I worked on designing new fully digitalized anesthesia machines using Xilinx Zynq MPSoCs, specifically working on FPGA implementations. I was responsible for designing an automatic software bench testing system for all VHDL IP and for automating team platform pipelines for digital RTL design. I streamlined a generalized design environment which decreased development times for all RTL IP. I also was the lead designer of the control board PCB, for which I conducted schematic design, simulation, and physical hardware testing using Cadence design systems. I received a distinguished accomplishment award for my contributions to the design architecture for the vaporizers.

June 2020 - September 2020

Medtronic

R&D Electrical Engineer Intern

I worked on novel at home hemodialysis machines to improve quality of life for patients with renal disease. I programmed python scripts to sort through the previously unorganized abundant data logs and created a customizable GUI which could graph and log the data during testing for the machines. This real time graphing solution ended up saving researchers hours of data log manipulation per experiment, additionally allowing for real-time testing data feedback in GUI displays. To implement my software I designed a PCB that could interface the hemodialysis machine to a laptop and seamlessly stream the data to a GUI.

May 2019 - January 2020

GE Healthcare

Electrical Engineer CO-OP

I designed my first two ever PCBs for new vaporizer systems during this COOP position, and was hooked to electronic design. I constructed one for power management and fault detection protections and for another for anesthetic agent flow monitoring and temperature sensing. I ran signal integrity analysis on DDR4 memory chips using ADS, SIWave, and Cadence design suite tools. I simulated and caught failing signal integrity errors and provided verifiable solutions before production time that saved the company tens of thousands of dollars in manufacturing.