Position Summary:
The Senior Electrical Engineer works individually on project assignments by evaluating, selecting, and applying contemporary electrical engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria. They will work on both small and large multi-disciplinary engineering teams, ensuring efficient integration of their assigned design elements into Cadwell’s industry-leading neurodiagnostics equipment.
Key Duties / Responsibilities:
- Electronics Design: Supports new product design as part of a cross-functional team, ensuring product complies with all technical and regulatory requirements; develops engineering solutions by creating design specifications, PCB design schematics and layouts, and prototypes
- Cross-Team Integration: Serves as a hardware resource for other teams such as firmware, software, sustaining, and operations throughout development, design transfer, and launch; provides guidance on hardware design requirements and specifications to other team members and functional groups, acting as a technical escalation point for other teams
- Design-for-X Review: Supports the evaluation of design solutions by internal and external parties; ensures team feedback is acted upon to facilitate reliable, manufacturable product designs
- Design Verification Testing: Ensures reliable and robust designs by planning, overseeing, and executing design verification test plans and procedures; participates in and interprets regulatory compliance testing such as EMC and safety
- Technical Documentation: Creates and maintains proper documentation and design files per internal processes and regulatory standards
- Technical Expertise: Actively maintains design skills and knowledge of product technologies by staying current in manufacturing technologies, competitive technologies, and design engineering fields
- Performs other duties as assigned
Job Knowledge / Requirements:
- Thorough knowledge of PCB design from concept through manufacturing transfer, including Design-For-Manufacturability analysis
- Thorough knowledge of analog signals and signal integrity
- Thorough knowledge of electrical engineering principles and experience in problem solving
- Working knowledge of designing and testing to EMI/EMC standards such as FCC and CISPR
- Working knowledge regarding design details of DC-DC converters, embedded microcontrollers, memory interfaces, sensors, and other technologies
- Working knowledge of Altium Designer or similar PCB design software including areas of both schematic capture and PCB layout
- Working knowledge of using electrical simulation software such as LTSpice
- Working knowledge of USB, Ethernet, and wireless network communication technologies
- Working knowledge of designing systems with high-speed digital signals >1GHz
- Preferred working knowledge of mechanical CAD tools, such as SolidWorks and AutoCAD
Education / Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience.
- Typically has greater than five (5) years of relevant professional or technical engineering experience of increasing responsibility and difficulty of assignment.
- Experience designing regulated equipment. Ideally this experience is in a medical or similar safety-conscious, highly regulated industry.
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
- Positions working with Cadwell equipment generally may require some reaching, bending, stooping, squatting, crawling, kneeling, pushing, pulling, lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, finger dexterity, repetitive motions, standing, walking, sitting, hearing, visual acuity, color vision, and 2-way written/verbal communication. More specific details may be provided as needed or requested.
- Extensive use of a computer will be required.
- Travel may be required; must be able to obtain necessary travel documents.
- Work hours outside normal business hours may be required at times to meet business needs.
Cadwell Industries, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and affirms the right of every individual to participate in all aspects of employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. If you are interested in applying for employment and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply for a posted position, please contact our Human Resources department at careers@cadwell.com.
