Hardware Engineer

Hardware Electronics Engineer

Be a founding member of Quectel's new LATAM hub in Manaus

Location Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Role Hardware Electronics Engineer – LATAM

Level Mid-Level (1-3 years of experience)

Type Full-Time, On-Site

Languages Portuguese & English required · Spanish a plus

About Quectel

Quectel is one of the world's leading suppliers of cellular IoT modules, antennas, and connectivity services, with more than 4,000 professionals across 8 R&D centers and 50+ sales offices worldwide. Our technology powers everything from smart meters and connected cars to industrial robots and point-of-sale terminals — quietly enabling billions of devices to talk to the cloud.

A New Chapter: Quectel in Manaus

This is something special. Quectel is launching a brand-new operation in Manaus, Brazil — and we're building the founding team right now.

Hosted at ICT Manaus (Instituto Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Tecnologia de Software), an accredited Science, Technology and Innovation Institution under SUFRAMA's CAPDA framework, this new setup will become Quectel's regional engine for R&D, customer enablement, and ANATEL certification across Latin America.

Joining now means more than taking a job — it means shaping a team, a culture, and a way of working from day one. Your fingerprints will be on everything we build here.

Learn more about Quectel:

• Company website — quectel.Com
• Our history & global footprint — quectel.Com/company/history
• LATAM in action — Furukawa Electric LatAm customer story (Brazil)
• Follow us on LinkedIn

The Role

We're hiring the founding hardware engineer for Quectel's brand-new Manaus operation. You'll be the first technical point of contact — and the technical voice — for customers across Latin America who are building tomorrow's connected products on Quectel modules: automotive telematics, smart energy, industrial IoT, connected payments, and more.

Because this is a new setup, you won't be slotting into someone else's playbook. You'll define how we review designs, how we work with ANATEL labs, how we support customers, and how we train the next engineers who join the team. You'll work hands-on with hardware, sit across the table from customer engineering teams, and partner with Quectel's global R&D centers to bring solutions home for the LATAM market.

"Joining a brand-new operation means you're not just doing the work — you're deciding how the work gets done. That's rare, and it's the reason engineers stay."

What You'll Do

• Partner with LATAM customers to understand their products, then design hardware architectures and recommend the right Quectel solutions.
• Review schematics and PCB layouts in Altium, Cadence, or PADS — and turn your feedback into better, more reliable designs.
• Get hands-on at the bench: power supply analysis, signal integrity, oscilloscope work, debugging interface and certification issues.
• Be the trusted technical voice for our LATAM customers — answering tough questions and solving complex problems alongside our global engineering teams.
• Lead technical discussions with customers and certification labs, including ANATEL homologation activities.
• Write the application notes, design guidelines, and FAQs that help customers ship faster.
• Train internal FAE and Sales teams across the region — your expertise will scale across LATAM.
• Support the project team with BOM preparation for fast, accurate customer quotations.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of hardware design or hardware support experience — bonus if you've worked in customer-facing or FAE roles.
• Solid grasp of hardware fundamentals: CPU, memory, PMU, system interfaces.
• Strong skills in power supply design, power sequencing, charging, and power consumption analysis.
• Comfortable with serial interfaces — I2C, SPI, UART, USIM — for integration and debug.
• Confident with bench tools: power supplies, multimeters, oscilloscopes.
• Hands-on with at least one EDA tool (Altium Designer, Cadence, or PADS).
• Fluent in English and Portuguese;
  Spanish is a plus.

Bonus Points For

• Experience designing PCBA end-to-end.
• Deep knowledge of USB 2.0/3.0, USB hub architecture, USB Type-C.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces: MIPI DSI/CSI, PCIe, SDIO.
• RF testing experience across cellular (2G/3G/4G/5G) and Wi-Fi 802.11.
• Background in PC, mobile, server, or FWA system integration.
• Prior ANATEL homologation experience.
• Team leadership or technical mentoring experience.

The Tech You'll Work With

• Quectel's full product portfolio — cellular (5G/LTE/LPWA), GNSS, smart modules, and antennas.
• Quectel services — including device certification work for ANATEL and other regional bodies.
• See it in action — Quectel customer stories from automotive, smart metering, agribusiness, and more.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Founding-team energy — you're not joining an established office, you're building one. The processes, the culture, the technical playbook — you'll help write it.
• Real impact from day one — your decisions and designs ship inside products used by millions across LATAM.
• Backed by a global leader — startup feel, but with the technology, customers, and resources of a 4,000-person publicly-listed IoT company behind you.
• Direct line to global R&D — work side-by-side with our R&D centers in China, Europe, and North America while staying rooted in Manaus's growing tech ecosystem.
• Cutting-edge technology — 5G, LPWA, AI at the edge, smart camera modules, and the next generation of connected devices.
• Career growth on a fast curve — early team members typically grow into senior technical or leadership roles as the operation scales.
• Customer-facing exposure — directly shape how leading LATAM brands build their connected products.
• Competitive package — attractive compensation, benefits, and the stability of a global market leader.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary aligned with LATAM market benchmarks.
• Performance bonus / sales commission structure (role dependent).
• Flexible meal and grocery vouchers (meal allowance / food allowance).
• Health insurance with no co-pay.
• Life insurance.
• Paid time off.
• International travel opportunities — HQ visits and global trade shows.

Ready to Apply?

If this sounds like your kind of challenge, we'd love to hear from you. Send your CV (in English) along with a short note about what excites you most about the role. We review applications on a rolling basis.

Apply via: | Browse open roles: quectel.Com/recruitment

Quectel is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive team where everyone can do their best work.