Electrical Engineer Prototyping

Open the Door to Your Future with Clopay Corporation & Cornell Cookson

At Clopay Corporation, we are more than just North America’s largest residential and commercial garage door manufacturer—we are a powerhouse of innovation, safety, and design. Through our premier brands, we lead the industry in providing groundbreaking high-performance closure solutions for both the places people call home and the spaces where the world does business.

Headquartered in Mason, Ohio, and operating state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Troy, Ohio, Russia, Ohio, Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, and Goodyear, Arizona, we are a proud American-owned company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation. Our reach extends across 55+ distribution centers and thousands of retail locations in the U.S. and Canada ensuring that we deliver the right door for every opening – from homes to businesses and beyond.

By joining our team, you become part of a legacy that blends the residential elegance of Clopay, known as "America’s Favorite Garage Doors," with the industrial strength and 180-year heritage of our rolling brands, Cornell and Cookson. Together, we secure everything from family garages to the world's most iconic stadiums and skyscrapers.

We currently have an opening for an Electrical Engineer – Prototyping & Applied Innovation in our Mason, Ohio location.

This is a hands-on, lab-based role for an engineer who loves to build. You will take early ideas and turn them into working circuits, assemblies, and demonstrators that show what is possible — then help refine the most promising concepts into future products across the Clopay and Cornell Cookson product lines. If you have a bench full of dev boards, a well-used oscilloscope, and a habit of prototyping your way to answers, we want to talk to you.

• Design, build, and debug proof-of-concept circuits, assemblies, and working demonstrators in the lab that turn new ideas into something people can see, touch, and evaluate — quickly.
• Rapidly prototype using Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP
  32, STM
  32 Nucleo, and similar development platforms, along with breadboards, perfboard, off-the-shelf modules, and quick-turn PCBs.
• Capture schematics and lay out simple to moderately complex printed circuit boards (e.g., KiCad, Altium, or similar) and coordinate quick-turn fabrication and assembly.
• Hand-build and rework assemblies, including through-hole and surface-mount soldering, wire harnesses, connectors, and enclosures; partner with mechanical engineers on 3D-printed and machined fixtures and housings.
• Write embedded and scripting code (C/C++, Micro Python/Python) to bring prototypes to life — reading sensors, driving motors and actuators, and communicating over wired and wireless interfaces.
• Explore and demonstrate concepts relevant to Clopay and Cornell Cookson residential and commercial door systems, such as motor control, sensing and safety detection, power electronics, wireless connectivity, and smart-home / IoT integration.
• Characterize circuits and systems using lab instrumentation — oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DMMs, programmable power supplies, electronic loads, function generators, and spectrum analyzers.
• Perform signal analysis on prototype and production hardware, including noise, timing, power quality, RF/wireless performance, and data acquisition, and summarize findings clearly.
• Build test fixtures, automated test rigs, and data-logging setups to evaluate concepts and existing products under realistic operating and environmental conditions.
• Document prototypes and results — schematics, bills of material, code, test data, and lessons learned — so promising concepts can be handed off and refined into production designs.
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