Senior Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities – Senior Electrical Engineer

• Responsible for the electrical design of future generations of MR Patient Care products
• Connect and align with project management on project content, timeline, and costs
• Work with systems engineering, mechanical and other cross functional team members to design electronic hardware to meet system level functional and architectural requirements.
• Address all forms of feedback, customer, field, or factory to drive enhancements and improvements in deployed products
• Take ownership and drive design and development activities for circuit design, schematic capture, power budgeting, thermal management, and meeting EMI/EMC requirements.
• Conduct concept & feasibility studies. Lead the introduction of new technologies
• Act as electrical lead to review and provide oversight of R&D activities (i.e. internal and external support) developing products for the MRI.
• Oversee all design and development activities of the modules and sub-systems
• Responsible for requirements, design, implementation, test and integration of module/sub-system in accordance with the higher-level requirements and specifications
• Drive product development activities including development of design concepts, prototype testing, engineering specs, and module/system level tests.
• Lead design reviews, FMEA analyses, and other DfX related activities
• Draws up personal schedule and reports on progress
• Develop feature enhancements, generate, and document world class, innovative designs.  This includes circuit design, schematic capture and creating specifications
• Provide technical leadership in problem solving and electrical hardware design activities
• Drive definition of electrical architecture for current and advanced development projects
• Translate architecture specifications into usable digital engineering data/requirements applicable to the subsystem and product level.
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers, interns, and co-ops

 

We are looking for

The successful candidate will possess the following knowledge, skills education and experience:

• A Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• At least 15 years work experience, preferably 10 years in a high-tech environment.
• Able to make a work break down and a planning for the electrical team in the project.
• Able to steer and supervise detailed design of electrical part of products and systems
• Proven experience in at least one of the domains medical equipment, industrial automation and high precision mechatronics as senior electrical designer or electrical team lead
• Experience with CE, EMC and UL regulations and more specifically with regulations for developing medical devices and equipment.
• Experienced to work according to the V model in defining requirements, test specifications, supervising execution of the tests and reporting the test results
• Proven team player and able to lead a team of electrical engineers in a multidisciplinary project
• General Knowledge in the following areas:
  • Analog front ends
  • Power supplies
  • High Speed digital circuits
  • Embedded Systems
  • FPGA (Xilinx preferred) and Signal Processing
  • Engineering reliability statistics
• Experience with design and test for EMC
• RF design experience is a plus
• Experience translating system and customer requirements into sub-system requirements
• Proven ability to document engineering analysis and design decisions
• Experience with Design of Experiments (DOE), DfX and FMEAs is preferred
• Experience working in a regulated field, preferably medical devices
• Proven ability with board bring up and troubleshooting activities
• Continual improvement focused, self-directed and creative
• Design experience with Xilinx and/or Altera FPGAs and be fully competent with simulate, synthesis, debug, and integration tools for test on hardware
• Experience with FPGA timing closure
• Knowledge of Matlab, embedded C programming & Simulink used for development of algorithms
• Scripting languages such as Tcl/Tk, & Python desirable
• Knowledge of simulation tools, ModelSim or equivalent
• Position requires a high degree of self-motivation and the ability to work with little direct supervision.
• Working knowledge of signal integrity, EMI/EMC issues, thermal management, and experience with signal integrity CAD tools.
• Must be able to work closely with board design engineers to ensure functional, electrical, and physical design constraints are clearly communicated and mutually agreeable upon.
• Working knowledge of hardware technology, including High speed digi