Electrical Design Engineer

Job Title

Electrical Design Engineer

Job Description

Electrical/Electronic Design Engineer (Latham, NY)

The Electrical Design Engineer position provides the successful candidate with an immediate opportunity to be involved with technology that helps save lives, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the cost of medicine around the world.  Philips is a leading innovator in the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and at the heart of every MRI scanner is a superconducting magnet.  Superconducting magnet technology is a cornerstone in the Philips Healthcare portfolio. As an international organization, Philips is well placed to offer a broad range of technical and leadership opportunities in various organizations throughout the world.

Your role:

• Detailed design, analysis, and testing of electrical components and controls with consideration of performance, cost, manufacturability, and reliability.
• Develop new and analyze, sustain, and improve existing embedded controls software.
• Developing and executing design verification activities, including analysis, similarity, and testing.  Validate controller performance against customer expectations.
• Developing new processes, methods, and ways of working.
• Thoroughly documenting design inputs and outputs.
• Assisting and/or directing vendors to create prototypes.
• Reviewing and ensuring adequacy of vendor qualification activities.
• Analyzing field and manufacturing issues related to mechanical design and providing solutions where required.
• General design activities such as requirements management, materials and component selection, Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and tolerance analyses.
• Actively participating in multidisciplinary project teams through all phases of product development to ensure successful execution of innovative and best-in-class designs.

You're the right fit if:

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering with 3+ years of practical experience applying electrical engineering principles in the new product introduction environment
• Ability to design, develop, and debug electrical circuits, both analog and digital
• Understanding of control theory and experience generating control algorithms
• Basic proficiency in other programming languages and tools such as Python, Vector
• Ability to design mechanical elements necessary to support the electrical components
• A self-starter, highly motivated with good organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to interface with customers and be effective at managing vendors and suppliers
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role.

About Philips

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Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in (Latham, NY ) is $92,000 to $158,000

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.    

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonu