Lead Electrical Design Engineer

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Applicants must be U.S. citizens, and this position is not eligible for sponsorship
Company: Alicat Scientific, Inc.

Position: Lead Electrical Design Engineer
Report To: V.P. Engineering
Location: In person only-Tucson, Arizona 85743
Salary starting at: $160K annual

About Us

At Alicat, engineers design hardware that is built, tested, and manufactured under the same roof, giving you direct ownership and immediate impact on real products.

We specialize in high-performance instrumentation for measuring and controlling flow and pressure. Our products support aerospace, bioprocessing, energy, environmental science, and advanced research, where precision and reliability are essential.

Our engineering environment is tightly integrated and highly collaborative. We avoid bureaucracy, make decisions quickly, and value engineers who take ownership and enjoy solving real technical problems.

All our instruments are built in-house at our Tucson, Arizona facility. This vertical integration gives engineers full visibility from concept through production and enables rapid iteration, strong cross-functional collaboration, and consistently high product quality.

Alicat’s mission is to accelerate the evolution of science and technology by giving researchers and innovators the tools to explore, build, and solve complex challenges. We are part of Halma plc, a global FTSE 100 group focused on growing a safer, cleaner, healthier future. Through Halma, we benefit from long-term stability and investment while maintaining the agility and culture of a mid-sized engineering team.

If you want to work at the intersection of science, engineering, and real-world impact, and help build instrumentation that enables the next generation of technological breakthroughs, Alicat is an exceptional place to do it. #Alicat

Job Summary

As a Lead Senior Electrical Design Engineer at Alicat Scientific, you will own the design and development of the high-precision electronics that power our flow and pressure control systems. You will architect and deliver tightly integrated analog, mixed-signal, embedded, and sensor-interface designs that directly influence how scientists and engineers measure, test, and control flow in demanding real-world applications.

You will work at the point where physics, materials, and electronics interact, solving system-level challenges that require stability, accuracy, and responsiveness under dynamic flow and pressure conditions. Your designs will interface cleanly with precision sensors and advanced control electronics and will be expected to perform exceptionally across a wide range of environments.

Collaboration is central to this role. You will work closely with firmware, mechanical, software, and test engineers to ensure seamless system integration from concept through production. Your insight will shape architecture decisions, design tradeoffs, and cross-disciplinary problem solving.

In addition to your technical contributions, you will provide leadership for a small electrical engineering team. You will guide project scoping, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and support prioritization, documentation, and best practices suited to Alicat’s fast-iteration engineering environment.

This is a deeply hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys exploring the science behind hardware, solving complex electrical problems, and seeing their work move quickly into production. Based full-time at our Tucson, Arizona facility, you will have full visibility into the product lifecycle and own meaningful design outcomes from initial architecture through manufacturing release.

Technical Functions

• Architect and design electronics for advanced flow and pressure control instruments.

• Develop analog and mixed-signal circuitry, including filters, amplifiers, power supplies, ADCs, DACs, comparators, PLLs, and timing systems.

• Design digital systems using high-speed microcontrollers and interfaces such as PWM, I²C, SPI, TTL, and MIPI.

• Implement valve and motor control circuits.

• Integrate communication interfaces including USB, RS232/RS485, wireless technologies, and industrial protocols such as EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, PROFIBUS, and Modbus TCP.

• Use ECAD tools for schematic capture, PCB layout oversight, and library management.

• Run simulations and analyses to validate concepts and ensure robust real-world performance.

• Troubleshoot complex electrical issues during bring-up and validation, and lead schematic and layout reviews.

• Collaborate with Test Engineering on validation, compliance, and product qualification.

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