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YAHYA SADEGHI

YAHYA SADEGHI

Landshut

Summary

Senior Hardware Designer with 15+ years of experience in architecting embedded systems and leading cross-functional teams to deliver cutting-edge hardware solutions across automotive, industrial, and embedded technology sectors. Demonstrated expertise in end-to-end product development, including system architecture, EMC/EMI compliance, and transition to mass production. Skilled in mentoring engineers, implementing PLM workflows, and driving design optimization under real-world constraints. Committed to developing high-performance embedded systems from concept to launch, with a strong focus on innovation, reliability, and scalability.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Hardware Developer

FANATEC
11.2022 - Current
  • Spearheaded the development of a next-generation steering wheel, contributing from concept to production. Owned hardware specifications, system architecture from an electrical engineering perspective, circuit design, and performance optimization. Collaborated closely with manufacturing to ensure manufacturability.
  • Incorporated engineering best practices, including conducting design reviews, DFMEA sessions, lessons learned analyses, design and build readiness reviews, and test planning.
  • Provide technical solution to handle EMC considerations for the Club Sport DD plus project.
  • Designed over six projects utilizing ARM Cortex-M7, Cortex-M4, and Cortex-M33 processors. These projects incorporated various peripherals such as USB, QSPI, DMA, SRAM, FLASH, TPM, CAN-FD, RS232, I2C, ADC, DAC, TFT LCD, EEPROM and ENCODERS, all of which are commonly found in a wide range of FANATEC products.
  • Utilizing the PLM method to establish a hardware development process based on the FANATEC ecosystem.
  • Supervising a team of junior hardware developers to address emerging issues.
  • Utilizing Click-Up software for task management.

Design Manager and Senior Hardware Developer

BASET PAZHUH
08.2019 - 11.2022
  • Designing a Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) to monitor all the sub-station equipment, all the parameters of all incoming and outgoing feeders on real-time. It also monitors the status of Circuit breakers, Relays, Isolators that are prevalent in any Substations.
  • Designing an industrial RS485 to Ethernet Converter based on MT7688, which allows bi-directional transmission between RS232/RS485 and RJ45 port via Modbus, DNP3 and IEC61870 protocols
  • Redesigning products to meet EMC/EMI Standards (IEC61000-4)
  • Manage a team of 12 people in three situations, ranging from junior engineers to experienced engineers in software, firmware, and hardware units, and collaborate with the business department, data analytics, operations, and marketing
  • Manage a design team using an agile methodology

Senior Hardware Developer

ESHRAQ
03.2016 - 07.2019
  • Designing hardware for a Desktop DMR system contains rich 10 resources, LCD, UART, audio codec, RF, JTAG, USB, GB Ethernet, SATA interface, High-speed DAC, DDR3 on DM8148
  • Hardware design for a handheld DMR system (digital unit) based on OMAPL138 which was the reverse engineering of HYTERA HD785 with a 20% decrease in battery usage and a better voice encoder algorithm to get a better quality of voice
  • Developed drivers for all peripherals for the DM8148 microcontroller utilizing SYS/BIOS and programmed in C++.
  • Implementation of starter ware SDK for writing a firmware to drive OMAPL138's peripherals in DMR application
  • Designing different modules (Schematic and PCB) such as ADC, DAC, Synthesizer, GPS, EEPROM, Bluetooth, LCD, etc... For RF applications and general purposes.

Senior Hardware Developer

SEPEHR SANAT SHARIF
01.2013 - 02.2016
  • Manufactured guidance and control systems for two universities, enhancing aviation engineering programs.
  • Design a low-cost attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) using the extended KALMAN filter(EKF)
  • Drive autopilot's sensors (Airspeed, Altitude, GPS, Magnetometer, Rate Gyro, Accelerometer)
  • Writing a Firmware for an autopilot with PID controller and integrated MEMS sensor

Hardware Developer

PARS
08.2008 - 01.2013
  • Design and implementation of a real-time navigation and telemetry system for a four-seat airplane using PC104 and HILS technology.
  • Designing an All-In-One Embedded Flight Control System for a commercial drone using DSP and MEMS sensors for navigation.
  • Understanding of system safety design concepts as they apply to flight control systems, redundancy, and monitoring.
  • Doing MCU Architecture extensions (peripherals, memory mapping, interrupt control)
  • Running four Seminars explain our hardware in the loop simulator and other methods we used in our new products.

Education

Master of science -

IAU University Tehran Branch
01.2014

Bachelor of science - undefined

IHU University
01.2008

Skills

  • Embedded Systems Design (ARM Cortex-A57/M7/M4/M33, DSP, DaVinci, Dual Cortex)
  • Digital & Analog Circuit Design
  • Altium Designer, Signal Integrity Analysis, LTSpice
  • High-Speed Interfaces: USB, CAN-FD, QSPI, Ethernet, RS485, SATA
  • Multilayer PCB Design, Schematic Capture
  • EMC/EMI Mitigation, DFMEA, Design Reviews
  • Firmware Development (C/C, SYS/BIOS, StarterWare)
  • Industrial Communication Protocols: Modbus, DNP3, IEC 61870
  • PLM Systems: Arena PLM, Confluence, ClickUp, Notion, JIRA
  • Agile Project Management, Team Leadership
  • System Integration & Troubleshooting
  • Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design Validation & Verification (DVV)

Languages

English
Persian
German

Certification

  • [Area of certification] Training - [Timeframe]

Timeline

Senior Hardware Developer

FANATEC
11.2022 - Current

Design Manager and Senior Hardware Developer

BASET PAZHUH
08.2019 - 11.2022

Senior Hardware Developer

ESHRAQ
03.2016 - 07.2019

Senior Hardware Developer

SEPEHR SANAT SHARIF
01.2013 - 02.2016

Hardware Developer

PARS
08.2008 - 01.2013

Bachelor of science - undefined

IHU University

Master of science -

IAU University Tehran Branch
YAHYA SADEGHI