Electrical Engineer 5- Hybrid (Milpitas, CA)

Work as a leading member of a multi-disciplinary product development team focused on engineering activities. Responsible for designing new products and sustaining electrical hardware solutions for Omnicell’s Automation products involving electromechanical and embedded software content.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure electrical engineering work is efficiently completed to support manufacturing factories, supplier deviation and design change requests, and quality & reliability improvement projects.
• As a team member, be responsible for completing various project activities, from definition, identifying electrical functional requirements, component selection, schematic design, PCB layout, DVT, and production functional test development for PCBAs.
• Create and oversee the electrical test plans/protocols and generate test reports to ensure designs meet the specifications and quality system requirements.
• Conducts feasibility studies of new and modified designs exercising judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria.
• Lead root cause analysis efforts and define creative and effective corrective actions.
• Provide leadership role at a system/subassembly project level by assigning work and resolving problems as well as mentoring engineering team members as required.
• Willingness to travel to domestic and international off-site locations as necessary to directly support customers, evaluate field issues as well as support start up activities for new products.
• Estimate, manage, and report time required for multiple, concurrent tasks.
• Read and understand basic firmware bare-metal applications. Strong Firmware experience is a plus.
• Develop quarterly goals.

  Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to practically apply systems engineering architectural design concepts and best practices to product development including machine controls and I/O systems.
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of configuring microcontrollers for specific applications.
• Advanced knowledge of medical related technologies, products, markets, customers and business fundamentals
• Proficient with designing complex electrical subassemblies and systems using an Altium electronic design automation environment within a formal product development process
• Demonstrated use of schematic design and bill of material generation as well as design simulation using Altium tools.
• Familiarity with custom PCB development including footprint generation and printed circuit board layout a plus.
• Experience bringing products/systems through agency certifications: UL, FDA, CE covering safety, EMI/EMC, and medical aspects
• Demonstrated experience with Bill of Materials, MRP systems and the ECR, ECO processes
• Able to effectively solve problems, work independently on sub-assemblies and multi-task as required.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Self-starter, capable of working independently as well as building strong cross functional collaborative relationships.
• Must be able to work in a team environment and assist cross functional teams with the debugging of complex issues.
• The candidate must be highly motivated to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

  Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering  
• 12+ years Electrical Engineering experience with a degree; 15+ years Electrical Engineering experience in lieu of a degree
• Excellent documentation skills (highly regulated development environment).
• Experience designing power supply, embedded microcontroller, and microprocessor-based systems.
• Experience designing interfaces for Ethernet, USB, Wireless (WiFi, BLE).
• Experience designing FPGA interfaces using Verilog.
• Experience with Bill of Materials, MRP systems and the ECR, ECO processes
• Experience with project lead role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Familiarity with motion controllers, servo / stepper motors, EtherCAT network I/O syst