Electrical Design Engineer - Grey Staffing

Position Overview:

The Electrical Design Engineer is responsible for electrical design and verification of next generation high reliability undersea and terminal based network elements for Company. This job function works within a team of outstanding electrical, mechanical, optical, firmware, and reliability engineers to design, prototype, qualify and transfer to production various high reliability fault tolerant circuit boards that will operate within Company Terminal or Undersea equipment.

The position will report to the Director of Terminal Subsystem Design within R&D.

Essential Job Functions, Responsibilities, Duties

• Contributes in the development of new circuits designs and schematics
• Selects suitable electrical circuit components and helps maintain component libraries
• Interacts with key component suppliers, distributors, and application engineers
• Collaborates with seasoned PCBA designers to generate PCBA design files
• Leads and participates in design and requirements reviews
• Plans, documents, and executes the design verification testing for new products
• Leads hands-on experimental work on prototype components, circuits, and assemblies
• Develops GUI based test software tools for testing new circuit boards and components
• Delivers factory testing requirements and supports early factory testing efforts
• Initiates and develops relationships with internal partners and external suppliers
• Consistently ensures that business is conducted with integrity and behaviors that align with Company policies, procedures, and core values.

Qualifications

• Strong interest in electrical design and using analytical skills to tackle challenging assignments
• Strong interest in learning circuit techniques that pass environmental, safety, EMI and EMC testing
• Strong interest in working with circuit board prototypes, electrical components, electrical circuit test instruments and measurement techniques
• Strong technical presentation and writing skills
• Some experience with one or more of the following areas is extremely desirable
  • Design and testing of analog and digital circuits and schematics
  • Design of op-amp and transistor circuits for detection/amplification/filtering of <1GHz) signals
  • Design of analog and digital control loops, with DACs, ADCs, logic devices processors, and with use of I2C, SPI, RS-232 buses
  • Design of transimpedance and log amp circuits for use with photodiode detection of optical signals
  • Design with schematic capture tools and standard methods for design of PCB assemblies
  • Familiarity with PCB fabrication and assembly processes
  • Familiarity with developing test procedures and writing Manufacturing Testing Requirements
  • Familiarity with developing products using a formal product realization process
  • Familiarity with selection of circuit board components based on reliability, availability, cost, performance
  • Familiarity with designing experiments, evaluating circuit performance, analyzing data
  • Familiarity with troubleshooting, using experimental and laboratory skills
  • Familiarity with CVI or other software for creating GUIs to help with DVT and firmware integration
  • Familiarity with peer design and DFMEA reviews
  • Familiarity with OrCad, Labview, Spice/Pspice, C/C++, Python
  • Familiarity with writing firmware requirements and integrating firmware into a new circuit assembly
  • Familiarity with fiber optic components such as couplers, WDMs, filters, photodiodes, lasers, modulators, EDFAs
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Articulates thoughts and ideas clearly, concisely, and persuasively. Writes English well.