Electrical Design Engineer

Electrical Design Engineer

Location:

Christiansburg, VA

Salary: $65,000.00–$85,000.00 Annually

Reporting To:
Manager, Site Engineering;

Work Schedule:

Onsite – Christiansburg, VA

Our Industrial Group is looking for an Electrical Design Engineer (EE) for the Christiansburg facility. In this position, you will have a wide scope of responsibilities required for the successful execution of a highly technical program. Your responsibilities will primarily be design-related, but also include project management, systems engineering, production support, and Assembly/Test. Responsibilities include everything it takes to develop, build and ship hardware to a customer.

You will be responsible for identifying project needs throughout all phases of execution and addressing any gaps that arise.

• Work on highly complex tasks across multiple projects and often require innovative solutions under minimal supervision. Supervision is generally required in the form of technical consultation, and you’ll be given general direction and expected to drive tasks to completion.
• Interact with other employees and display an understanding of company values to both internal and external customers. You’ll be a project driver and exert ownership over multiple aspects of multiple projects.
• Switch between different internal responsibilities including Assembly and Test, resource coordination across the plant and campus, external supplier communication, strategic coordination between different departments and business units.
• Effectively train other employees and give presentations to audiences (internal or external) and effectively represent your team on review panels and cross-organizational teams. Write convincing documents, proposals, or other items with all backup material needed for external consumption.
• Drive efforts for design reviews, customer visits, and demonstrations. Travel to customer sites or other locations for program efforts having a direct influence and interaction with external customers.
• Participate in tasks that have an impact not only on their team, but also other teams being a key resource for tasks that have a large level of impact outside of your role.
• Take the initiative to learn new tools and technologies and demonstrate a high level of knowledge of technical competency in multiple areas.

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience with high frequency circuit design, board layout, and test equipment.
• Comfortable in a lab environment or at an external test site. Familiarity with electronic test equipment and test practices.
• Ability to understand project needs and identify steps required to advance project forward.
• Strong analytical skills, required to fulfill the demands of design and development of new products and to develop solutions in concert with customer requirements, Assembly/Test, supply chain, contracts and other groups connected to Design and Development of new products.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical and programmatic information and to manage competing priorities of multiple stakeholders.
• Understanding and balance between driving forces behind the design that are not solely focused on design elegance, but include end use, cost, manufacturability, timing, supply chain stability and resource availability.

• Experience with Cadence
• Experience with programming
• Experience with FPGA

• Financial Rewards: great compensation package, annual profit sharing, matching 401k and the ability to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Work/Life Balance:
  Flexible paid time off, holidays and parental leave program, relocation assistance
• Health & Welfare:
  Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) and other supplemental benefit coverages
• Professional Skills Development:
  Tuition Assistance, mentorship and coaching opportunities, leadership development and other personal growth programs
• Collaborative…