Sr Electrical Engineer - Labsphere, Inc.

Labsphere and International Light Technologies (ILT), sister companies in the Halma network, specialize in solving some of the world’s greatest challenges – with light! Our core products measure, create, and reflect light, touching industries including medical, automotive, consumer electronics, AR/VR/MR, and remote sensing.

Our core resource is our world-class team of innovators and experts, and we are expanding this team with a new Electrical Engineer. In this role, you will work with the Labsphere and ILT Product Development teams, helping make the next-generation solutions to our customers’ diverse and challenging needs.

Drawing from disciplines including systems, optics, mechanical, electrical, software engineering, and industrial design we’re assembling the capacity to provide even deeper customer collaboration on highly precise opportunities across industries.

The Sr Electrical Engineer is located in our Peabody MA office, with semi-regular travel to our North Sutton NH location as needed, especially during the initial training period.

Essential Job Functions

As a collaborative Electrical Engineer, you will:

• Work with a team of driven, supportive, and highly skilled professionals in the development of Labsphere and ILT’s next-generation electrical architectures for light measurement, technical lighting systems, and tunable reference calibration systems
• Utilize electrical engineering expertise in a multidisciplinary team to design, build, and test new solutions to meet customer requirements and specifications
• Work closely with and contribute to firmware design in embedded architectures
• Investigate, propose, and build consensus for future technology solutions and design architectures
• Lead the effort to improve configuration management from prototype to production

General requirements

Our ideal candidate brings ambition and intelligence and should possess the following:

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent technical discipline
• 2+ years of work experience in driving technical solutions in manufacturing and industrial environments
• Hands-on experience developing integrated electrical hardware/firmware systems
• Experience in both analog and digital domains, including designing with microcontrollers, layout, simulation, test, and verification
• Experience and drive to plan and implement design process improvements
• Proficient with hardware debugging tools such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
• Electrical circuit design (low voltage DC such as current regulators, op-amp circuits, communication busses, etc., some AC power systems)
• Communication protocols such as RS232, USB, RS485, I2C, UART, SPI
• A good communicator and self-starter, capable of working independently

Additional Skills Preferred

• Experience with Altium is preferred but we will train if candidate has other experience
• Experience in photonics, spectroscopy, optics, lighting or LED applications
• Experience with low signal to noise measurement and circuit design
• Experience in embedded firmware and application, deployment, and development
• Programming knowledge in C, MATLAB, Python, Linux, LabVIEW

Qualities

• Excellent skills in planning and communications, strong analytical capabilities, and an attention to detail
• People-centric focus with the ability to collaborate with all teammates across the organization
• Strong initiative, work ethic, and levels of enthusiasm
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, innovation, and the ability to motivate, inspire, and influence cross group/functional teams with a high degree of independence and success
• An entrepreneurial spirit and mindset, bringing a natural curiosity for what “can be” and the willingness to challenge boundaries
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, navigate uncertain situations, and drive for clarity
• High standard of ethics and integrity
• A good communicator and self-starter, capable of working independently and solving problems without constant oversight