Senior Electrical Engineer
Job Description
The Senior Electrical Engineer role develops electrical systems, subsystems, and unit testing of electrical systems. This includes analog and digital hardware development, software development and integration, design of PCBs, fabrication and assembly management with vendors and contract manufacturers, and inventory management. The role also is deeply embedded in the design control process, including requirements generation, verification, and validation.
Responsibilities:
● Hardware development of the electrical systems of automation instruments.
● Verification of system requirements, and report generation.
● Inventory management of hardware components for development system builds.
● Printed circuit board design and layout. Fabrication and assembly vendor management.
● Create bench-level experimental setups and interfaces to collect data.
● Code generation for test setups for debugging, and automation of characterization
Qualifications
Required skills/qualities/experiences:
● BS in Electrical Engineering
● 4+ years of hardware design experience
● Hands-on experience with PCB design and layout, preferably using spice simulator and Altium
● Hands-on experience of circuit bring up of analog and digital circuits
● Lab experience with instrumentation (oscilloscopes, power supplies, network analyzer, Impedance analyzer, spectrum analyzer, etc.) and circuit debugging experience
● Hands-on experience with systems using FPGAs and microcontrollers
● Ability to read and interpret engineering specifications, drawings, and analyses
● Able to program in Python
● Industry experience creating test documentation (plans, protocols, reports)
Preferred skills/qualifications
● Previous ownership of requirements generation
● Product verification efforts for products, including building and maintaining test/calibration systems
● Able to program proficiently in Python or C/C++
● Experience collaborating with or managing outside vendors to specify, develop, and qualify test solutions