We are hiring for a Senior Electrical Engineer who comes from a Hardware Design focus! This is a hybrid role that will begin fully remote for the first 6 months and then move to a hybrid position thereafter. This company is renovating their facility and the position will remain remote until renovations are completed.Description:This person will be owning PCB Board design from start to finish. Multiple products being products as a collective concurrently and multiple boards within project. Will own project or board. Depending on their level of experience they will own the work from either requirements onward, or PCB design onward. Sometimes they outsource, but this person should be happy to do layout/schematics as well. Definitely will take part in lab work / bring-up. Needs to be involved with that. Altium is design tool and they use it for all phases.Job Duties:
Translate product level requirements into implementable circuit
Work with Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Management in an interactive manner to develop electrical solutions to project requirement
Define potential electrical implementation solutions and discuss tradeoffs
Design electrical solutions for PacStar products implemented as BOMS and Schematics in Altium
Low power (2 – 60W), low voltage (3, 5, 12, and 48 VDC) power circuits
LI-ION battery charging and monitoring circuits
PoE circuits
High Speed signal routing for Ethernet ports (100 Mbps to 10 Gbps)
Simple micro-processor design and firmware development (mostly board hotel functions)
Build parts and maintain library within Altium
Design for small size and physically rugged environments
Provide parts placement board models to Mechanical Engineering
Participate in the normal back and forth to address thermal and fitment issues
Layout of circuit boards in Altium
Company currently employs a mixed model of laying out boards in-house and utilizing external resources when timing or expertise dictate
Ability to layout boards and generate complete board fabrication packages is desired
Provide detail electrical design guidance when utilizing external board layout resources (e.g. isolation, stack up, signal transmission requirements, etc)
Coordinate with purchasing and board build house for fabrication and assembly of engineering test units
Provide advance BOM’s to Purchasing
Be proactive in the identification of long lead items. Acquire samples and small lots early in the design process to mitigate timing impact
Provide technical guidance as needed to board assembly house
Board turn-up/debug/test
Receive first run engineering circuit boards
Perform basic turn-up and debugging of boards
Develop and test any microprocessor-based functions on the board (usually simple board hotel functions)
Develop and execute Design Verification Testing
Support Mechanical Engineering during physical integration of electronics into modules
Experience with EMI/EMC and ESD testing and debugging is preferred
Transition designs to manufacturing
Provide complete design packages to enable production build (Board production quantities are in the high hundreds per year utilizing mostly on-shore suppliers)
Develop and provide simple functional test plans/systems to board assembly house
Support factory with problem resolution and test support when required
Support designs once they are in the field
Provide technical support to field issues should they occur
Modify designs, if required, in response to field problems
Provide technical support for existing designs. (All are fully documented in Altium and have been in production for 1 to 3 years)
Coordinate/communicate with management regarding schedule, milestones, technical status, etc.
Nice to Have Skills & Qualifications:
Networked products
Low power
Low voltage
Firmware development
DVT
Regulated standards and/or MIL-STD-810G, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-471
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