Aamir Jahan
Electrical Engineer in New York
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ajahan
Summary
Engineer with 5+ years of experience in hardware research and development and 9 years of experience in consumer product development for high volume electronics. Skilled at design of analog & digital systems, power supplies, sensors integrated in IoT embedded systems.
Education
▪ Master of Science in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
In progress
▪ Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Columbia University, NY
▪ Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Stony Brook University, NY
CGPA: 3.95, Summa Cum Laude
Skills
▪ Product Development: Technical Leadership in Cross-functional Teams, Communication, System Design & Integration.
▪ Hardware: Hardware Architecture, Analog, Digital, Power, RF Electronics, Schematic & Board Design (rigid, flex).
▪ Software: ARM-based Microcontrollers, Embedded Systems Firmware in C and C++, Python.
▪ Tools: Altium, Cadence Orcad, Git, JIRA, Circuit Simulation, Oscilloscopes and other lab equipment, Soldering.
▪ Program Management: Development of Risk & Mitigation Plan, Project Schedules, Resource Planning.
▪ Others: Design for Manufacturing, Debug for EMI & ESD, Failure Mode Effects & Analysis, Data Analysis.
Professional Experience
Meta Platforms, Reality Labs, New York, NY
Jan 2021 – Present
Electrical Engineer
▪ Design, prototype, and test different analog front end (AFE) designs for wrist based electromyography (EMG) devices. Driving design decisions to optimize designs to improve signal quality, reduce noise and component count.
▪ Develop a high information density sampling core that can accelerate EMG research. Collaborated across multiple cross-functional teams to develop a modular solution that can help evaluate different AFE designs with better data.
▪ Develop hardware for neural interface wearables and AI devices, shipping 0 to 1 technology.
Leviton Manufacturing Co., Melville, NY
Apr 2012 – Jan 2021
Senior Electrical Engineer, Product Development Lead
Prior Positions at Leviton: Electrical Engineer II, Electrical Engineer I, Engineering Intern
▪ Led a cross-functional design team to deliver high volume consumer electronics products. Released more than 20 products to market by managing team members with and without direct supervisory relationships.
▪ Collaborated with Product Management to translate customer requirements to product features. Improved performance on 10 major products with 3 million+ annual units in sales by benchmarking, gap and trade-off analysis.
▪ Developed the electronics architecture through design, test, verification, and validation phases. Drive design decisions to meet industry regulatory standards for UL, CSA, FCC, NEMA as well as the target cost and timelines.
▪ Managed communication on project timelines, costs, and deliverables to all stakeholders – management, vendors, manufacturers. Co-ordinate sourcing and production for manufacturing in the USA, Mexico, and China.
▪ Accelerated time to market by mitigating schedule risks, performing FMEAs, rapid prototyping, and design reviews.
▪ Supervised 3 junior engineers & 1 intern by setting expectations of project outcomes and mentoring them through the design process. Provide performance reviews and participate in interviews & hiring decisions for engineering staff.
Product Development Lead Experience at Leviton:
Occupancy Motion and Humidity Sensor Lighting Controls
▪ Developed the hardware architecture and board layout to support multiple sensors and loads on the same platform. This significantly consolidated the design effort of 8 products to one and reduced development time by half.
▪ Designed a cost-effective and low-leakage power supply suitable for use in older and newer home constructions which increased product adoption. Integrated all system blocks based on performance, cost targets, and availability.
▪ Improved sensor motion detection by twice the range of the existing product and improved false trigger immunity that exceeds industry benchmark (patented).
▪ Created a user interface (patented) that improved user experience without requiring mobile app to access settings.
2-wire TRIAC Dimmer Lighting Controls
▪ Defined KPIs from existing problem statements and met them by validation, alpha, and beta testing. Ensured product compatibility with all generations of LED lamps and drove adoption of the design across the portfolio.
▪ Designed the product architecture that solves LED dimming challenges without a neutral wire and can be used in both older and newer home constructions.
▪ Developed two algorithms (patented) that maintain dimming stability with the early generation of LED lamps and with line voltage disruptions experienced in the field.
▪ Created a Machine Learning based approach (patented) to detect internal construction of LED lamps using data.
USB Type-C Power Delivery In-wall Receptacle
▪ Developed an industry-first 30W USB power delivery charging receptacle with high power density using QR Fly-back topology and ARM based USB controllers (patented).
▪ Designed all aspects of hardware architecture to meet stringent thermal and EMI requirements. Ensured product safety by performing analysis and simulations of thermal performance based on expected variations in production.
▪ Reduced EMI, footprint, and cost of design by developing a logic control circuit that enables smart power-sharing between multiple USB ports using a single DC-DC stage (patented).
▪ Resolved a product failure in the field due to ESD on USB ports which eliminated a prior significant field issue.
IoT (Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, Zigbee) Lighting Controls (dimmers, switches, receptacles)
▪ Led the electronics development for BLE, Wi-Fi, and Zigbee enabled lighting control products with battery backup.
▪ Mitigated conducted and radiated EMI noise by optimizing the power supply and RF design.
▪ Performed debugging of complex system using serial (I2C, UART) and RF (BLE, NFC) communication.
Patents and Publication
▪ Prediction and Recovery of Zero-Crossing Information and Selective Control Signal Pulse Duration. Patent #: US12069779B2
▪ Methods and Arrangements for False Trigger Prevention. Patent #: US11974378B2
▪ Load Control With Integral Control Interface. Patent #: US11815868B2
▪ Systems and Methods for USB Power Delivery With Multiple Charging Ports. Patent #: US10923941B2
▪ Lighting Load Classification and Dimmer Configuration based thereon. Patent #: US11641707B2, US10856395B1
▪ GPS enabled speed control embedded system with display & engine control interface - 2013 IEEE LISAT Conference
Certifications and Training
▪ Professional Engineering License (Electrical), State of New York (# 099612)
▪ Leading Organizations for Innovation, Change, and Collaboration – Prof. Ralph Katz, MIT Sloan School of Management.
▪ Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt – Stony Brook University Center for Corporate Education
▪ Statistical Process Control and Graphical Analysis – Leviton Internal
▪ Foundations of Effective Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). – HBM Prenscia
▪ Programmable System on Chip for Bluetooth Low Energy – Cypress Semiconductors.
Academic Projects
▪ Machine Learning for Trading: Built a market simulator and compared rule-based, supervised-learning, and reinforcement-learning trading strategies against historical equities data.
▪ Knowledge-Based AI: Built an agent solving Raven's Progressive Matrices through structured knowledge representation, extended into a general game-playing agent.
▪ Robotic AI Techniques: Implemented particle and Kalman filters for robot localization, occupancy-grid mapping, and PID/search-based path planning and control.
▪ Mobile App: Delivered a user customizable sports news, media, & social media aggregator iOS app in 4 months.
▪ Big Data Analytics: Created a data analytics dashboard showing ride statistics for NYC taxi rides using Hadoop.
▪ Embedded Systems: Developed a custom protocol in C to integrate an ARM processor in a System-on-Chip.
▪ GPU Programming: Designed, in Python, a narrowband LTE-M modem with noise reducing filter running on GPU.
▪ VLSI Design: Designed a 4-bit Flash Analog to Digital converter in Cadence.