Electronics Design Engineer

Summary: As an Electronics Design Engineer, you will be designing new products as part of a multi-functional team. You may be responsible for leading projects, driving high quality designs, and ensuring effective production implementation. You will be developing product specifications, architecture, schematic capture, layout, library management, and some testing and production support. You should have excellent Altium and mixed signal Electronics Design skills, motor driver experience is required.

Energetic, hands on, highly organized and detail-oriented engineer with the ability to work under a minimum of supervision. Strong communication skills and experience in a team and hybrid work environment. Eager to grow technical skills and to design products to be proud of.

Salary is $110,000 to $130,000 depending on experience.

Location: Kent, WA or Carlsbad, CA – Hybrid work possible depending on project requirements.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Skilled in mixed signal electronics, higher power architectures, digital radios and RF layout, embedded hardware design.
• Design and of medium-power motor drivers 50V/50A BLDC and DC.
• Experience Coordinating with other groups including third party design consultants, Test Engineering, firmware, Supply Chain, and Operations.
• Schematic capture, PCB stack-up, part creation, layout, and simulation of electronic circuits in Altium.
• Design low power, solar powered and battery backed systems.
• Altium library and component management with Arena PLM.
• Focus on design for reliability in harsh environments, manufacturability, and cost.
• Strong collaboration with ID, ME, FE and PMs during design and development process to enhance the final product. Contribute to constructive design review and feedback processes.
• Manage build, bring-up and test of new designs, work with test engineer to create and execute test plans.
• Collaborate with test engineers to design and build custom bed of nails ATE.
• Debugging and diagnostics of field returns on newly introduced products.
• Effectively manage your time to accomplish goals despite competing project interests and changing priorities.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience in Electrical engineering. Altium experience required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of PCB manufacturing, PCBA, and quality: DRC, gerbers, DFM.
• Experience with and understanding of motor control systems and simulations.
• Excellent lab equipment skills: Oscilloscope, DMM, logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, hand soldering.
• Proven analytical design approach.
• RF and EMC/EMI design skills and experience.
• Software; Primary: Altium Suite, MS Office, SPICE tools, C/C++. Secondary: Arena, NetSuite.
• UL991 and IPC Class 2 experience preferred. EMC/EMI experience preferred.
• Positive attitude, self-motivated and eager to succeed.

Physical Requirements:  

Essential functions of this job require the following minimal physical demands. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable the individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Required to sit, talk, or hear; frequently required to use hands to grip or feel; and occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. 
• Vision and depth perception suitable for use of utilizing electronics lab tools, a computer, printer, phone, and keyboard.  
• Manual dexterity suitable for use of utilizing a computer. 
• Sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes which permits the employee to work in an office or electronics lab setting. 
• Ability to walk and/or climb 5% of the time comfortably, with or without reasonable accommodation. 
• Ability to sit at a computer for 90% of the time comfortably, with or without reasonable accommodation. 
• Light to moderate lifting.  

Working Conditions: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Must be comfortable working in an office environment to include moderate noise levels. 
• The working area is primarily in an open office or electronics lab setting with reasonable lighting and controlled temperatures.

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Disclaimer:

The above statements reflect the general details considered necessary to decide the principal functions of the job identified and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all work requirements that may be inherent in the job. Job incumbents are expected to perform other duties necessary for the effective operation of the position, department, or the business.