Electrical Engineer

Collaboration drives Nordson's success as a market leader in Industrial Precision Solutions and Advanced Technology. Our employees thrive in an environment where we help each other reach our personal best and enable our company to continuously improve and grow, and our customers to succeed. You will find Nordson employees sharing our success by giving back in the communities around the world where we live and work.
At Nordson Electronics Solutions we have big goals, an innovative spirit, and a vision to become the preferred partner to electronics manufacturers worldwide. If you believe in big goals, consider joining our team to help solve reliability challenges for the world's largest semiconductor, printed circuit board, and precision assembly manufacturers. Our fluid dispensing and surface treatment solutions help make reliable electronics an everyday reality - from mobile devices to the Internet of Things to self-driving vehicles, life-saving medical equipment, and beyond.
Job Summary
We are looking for an Electrical Engineer who will play an integral role in our R&D team designing the next generation of high precision electronics and semiconductor inspection sensors. You will be involved in this process from product conception to production. This position requires design conceptualization to meet product requirements, project planning and tracking, design implementation, test and verification to specifications, transition to production, continuation, and documentation.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Design electronic circuits for 3D measurement products that utilize machine vision and pattern projection.
• Interpret customer and internal product requirements and translate into product specifications, risks, and design concepts.
• Risk reduction through feasibility studies of initial electronics concepts.
• Contribute to project planning by estimating tasks, resources, schedules, NRE, production costs, and manufacturing support.
• Design electrical circuits utilizing FPGAs, micro-processors and micro-controllers, System On Modules (SOMs), low speed devices with I2C and SPI, and high speed devices like LPDDR4.
• Ability to solve challenging problems with creative design solutions.
• Supervision of PCB layout activities that must achieve challenging size, space, weight, and high-speed board requirements.
• Manage fabrication and testing of prototype and production electrical designs.
• Design and verification testing to internal and external specifications.
• Development of manufacturing, calibration, and alignment processes.
• Transition new designs to manufacturing.
• Support existing products, customer issues, and supply chain issues.
• Mentoring of Junior Engineers and Technicians.

Education and Experience Requirements

• BS Electrical Engineering.
• 2+ Years related experience.

Preferred Skills and Abilities

• Ability to take a new electronics design from conceptualization to, schematic drawing, PCB layout, fabrication, verification testing, and transition to production.
• Skilled in FPGA hardware and HDL design with a preference to the Xilinx/AMD toolset.
• Skilled in the design of micro-processor or micro-controller-based hardware.
• Experience with communications interfaces like PCIe, Ethernet, USB, I2C, SPI, or RS-422.
• Knowledge of machine vision technologies like, CMOS imagers, DLP display projection, Coaxpress, Cameralink, or MIPI considered a plus.
• Experience with power supply design and high-power LED drive circuitry.
• Strong documentation skills that encompass schematic capture, PCB and BOM file management, theory of operation and design descriptions, test plans and results, and design issue logging and resolution.
• Knowledge of high speed and high-density PCB layout, propagation and impedance calculations, and fabrication methods. PCB simulation knowledge a plus.
• Ability to design electronics that will meet international compliance standards like CE.
• Ability to self-manage, plan, multitask, and work effectively in a multi-functional team.
• Strong communications skills.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands
Office environment. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear, occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms; requires close vision ability. The noise level is usually moderate.
Travel Required
None
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