Sr/Principal Electrical Engineer

The Senior Electrical Engineer position requires advanced experience developing and troubleshooting electrical systems and circuit board assemblies. This individual will manage development and execution of new product development and sustaining projects with limited supervision.

The ability to create circuit designs, schematics and board layouts is required. Experience with embedded system development as individual contributor preferred. Must have ability to methodically test and identify circuit deficiencies and deploy sustainable corrective measures. Requires advanced mathematical skills to perform calculations and ability to think creatively.

The Senior Electrical Engineer must work closely with Quality Control, Manufacturing, Materials, Engineering, and Test departments ensuring verbal and written communications are clear and understood. The position functions in an office/manufacturing environment with long periods of sitting and the use of job specific tooling and software.

Responsibilities

• Plan, conceptualize, and create optimized electrical and electronic circuit designs.
• Provide technical support to field technicians and the production operations team.
• Utilize engineering calculations and analysis software to support design work.
• Create and review schematics and board layouts using commercial development software.
• Coordinate manufacture and build of working prototypes for beta testing.
• Develop and coordinate qualification and validation test plans.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary engineering teams, suppliers, and contractors.
• Prepare detailed documentation to track project development and design activities.
• Ensure project timeline is met and project stays within budget.
• Manage firmware development cycles using Agile project management methods.
• Mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree: in Electrical Engineering plus 10 years or Master’s Degree plus 8 years of relevant professional experience in individual-contributor role.
• Embedded / discrete PCBA design to production experience.
• 5-48 VDC custom sensors
• 12-48 VDC Power Management (up to 1000 W)
• Harness Design –Signal and Power (DC)
• Remote communication / control
• Excellent math skills: able to apply advanced math principles and statistics to solve problems.
• Exceptional technical, problem-solving skills and reasoning ability.
• Proficient with electronic schematic / layout tools.
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly.
• Must be self-motivated and embrace team culture.

Skills:

• Agile Programming Methodologies
• Analysis Software
• Beta Test/Release
• Budget Management
• Circuit Design
• Circuit Testing
• Communication Skills
• Computer Firmware
• Cross-Functional
• Documentation
• Electrical Engineering
• Electricity
• Electronic Circuit
• Electronic Design
• Embedded Systems
• Identify Issues
• Machine Tool
• Manufacturing
• Materials Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mentoring
• On Site Support
• Power Management
• Presentation/Verbal Skills
• Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
• Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA)
• Problem Solving Skills
• Product Development
• Project Design
• Project Development
• Project Lifecycle
• Project Tracking
• Project/Program Management
• Prototyping
• Quality Control
• Schematics
• Software Administration
• Software Design
• Statistics
• Technical Support
• Testing
• Validation Plan
• Validation Testing

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