Senior Staff Electrical Engineer

Job Description

We're growing and we'd like you to join our R&D team! We are seeking an individual that will contribute in the development of existing and new medical technologies and applications. Working with other engineers, you will have direct impact on future Cutera devices and therefore will influence the future of medical and aesthetic dermatology.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Be a key member of a fast-paced engineering team changing the landscape of medical aesthetics.
• Independently determine scope and schedule within department goals.
• Design and test firmware and electronics for lasers and RF devices.
• Perform schematic capture and PCB layout of all electronics.
• Design and test PID controllers for temperature and current regulation.
• Oversee electrical safety and EMC testing.
• Develop test plans for component and system level verification.
• Work closely with a group of embedded software engineers on system implementation.
• Troubleshoot and perform failure analysis on existing/new electronic designs.
• Support designs for high-voltage and high-current power supply designs.

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering; Master’s degree preferred
• 9+ years of experience in active hands-on design of mixed signal circuits

Minimum Skills:

• Understanding principles of mixed signal design, structure of microprocessors and microcontrollers, different type of cores, buses, memory accessing, DMA mechanisms, timer & interrupt functions, and their usability to solve complex design problems. 
• Strong experience in designing for EMC and EMI.
• Working knowledge of signal integrity analysis. Digital and analog (Spice) simulation using tools.
• Knowledge of high-speed circuit PCB design methods. Perform design to meet impedance requirements and termination. Knowledge of trade-offs in PCB design (dielectric material types, stack-up, characteristics impedance, board thickness). 
• Knowledge of IC based circuit solutions in analog, digital and mixed signal domain (practical knowledge of solutions for Logic series derivatives, memories, digital and analog interfaces, sensors conditioners, analog to digital converters, audio and video interfaces, serial and network interfaces, etc. 
• Perform failure mode analysis (FMA) and generate process documentation
• Define stress test routines required to validate design critical items. 
• Formulate test plans to ensure component level performance
• Validate testing to ensure performance over temperature and voltage extremes.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis to resolve issues in assigned designs.

Demonstrated experience in: 

• Designing complex circuits around modern CPU, MCUs including multicore ARM SoC.
• Designing and interfacing with DDR and SDRAM memories, storage interfaces: eMMC, SDIO, SATA.
• Designing peripheral interfaces, including analog: Op-amps, balanced drivers, power drivers, AD/DC, DC/DC linear and SMPS, mixed signal ADC as well as digital: USB, HDMI, Ethernet, QSPI, I2C, UART, I2S, GPIO including differential. 

Additional desired skills:

• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering; Computer Engineering with focus on Mixed Signal circuits design. 
• Cross functional skills of understanding basic software methods for embedded programming and how it impacts hardware design and vice versa. Experience in hardware design around software capabilities. 
• Altium Designer working knowledge of Concord Pro is a plus. 
• Design around PLD and FPGA using schematic capture and VHDL or Verilog
• Self-motivated and experienced person to perform duties with minimum supervision.

Cutera expects to reasonably pay in the range listed below for this position based on the city and state listed in the job posting:

 Annual base salary: $130,000 - $160,000

The actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, education, and candidate residence if the position is remote or field-based. We reserve the option to pay above this range for the exemplary experience or higher education. 

Additional Information

Please visit www.cutera.com for more information about Cutera.

We seek extraordinarily capable, and committed people to help shape and develop our Company. We offer competitive benefits to all levels of employees and provide free shuttles to and from nearby BART and Caltrain stations. If this seems like an exciting role, then apply today! 

We design, develop, manufacture, and market medical instruments used in dermatology for advanced energy-bas