Senior Sustaining Electrical Engineer

Position:
Senior Sustaining Electrical Engineer

Location:
Boulder, CO

Type:
Fulltime, Direct Hire, Onsite

The Role:


As a Senior Sustaining Electrical Engineer
, you'll be working on product life cycle support for a wide range highly technical particle counting instrumentation. You will be working with a team of dedicated engineers and scientists from multiple disciplines in addition to marketing, production, and service people in the organization. You will be working with a wide variety of technologies and using your engineering skills to troubleshoot issues and improve designs.

You will be responsible for design enhancements of products to provide new functionality and features and/or extend a product's life cycle.

Specific

Job Responsibilities:

• Supporting product updates and sustaining engineering activities
• Work in a multi-disciplinary environment that include mechanical and firmware engineers as well as supply chain, production engineers, service technicians and product line managers
• Working with embedded processor system electronics
• Honing your existing expertise and expanding your capabilities by developing new skills over a broad range of electrical design technologies
• Troubleshooting electronics
• Generating electronic design updates and verifying them.
• Updating design documentation, writing test reports and other technical documents when appropriate
• Processing Engineering change orders
• Performing root cause analysis
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team through an extended design effort
• Mentor junior level team members

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
• 10+ years of hands-on electrical engineering design
• Proficiency with schematic capture
• Experience with microprocessor circuitry design and peripherals such as FLASH memory, dynamic ram, other interface chips
• A solid understanding of signal integrity
• Experience with basic analog circuit design, such as op amp circuits, and signal conditioning for ADC and DACs
• Experience using analog circuit simulators such as SPICE
• The ability to use standard electronic test equipment such as DVMs, oscilloscopes and function generators to test and troubleshoot boards.
• Hands on experience troubleshooting complex boards.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to write clear and concise reports, summarize data and create technical documents
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage interdisciplinary sustaining efforts
• Demonstrated ability to direct and manage contracted design projects

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
• Experience with 32/64 bit embedded ARM processor designs
• Experience with Siemens xDx Designer
• Experience interfacing with and using FPGAs
• Experience interfacing DDR memory, SPI, I2C, and USB peripheral chips
• Experience with DC/DC converter designs, and power sequencing circuitry
• Experience with low noise analog electronic design
• Experience with photodetectors
• Basic programming experience and working knowledge of C and C++