Electrical Engineer Product Development

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 – Product Development (Full-Stack Hardware) in our Mason, Ohio location.

This is a “full-stack” electrical engineering role for an engineer who wants to own a design from first sketch to the production line. You will define the requirements, design and prototype the electronics, write the embedded code to bring it to life, document it thoroughly, work with suppliers and contract manufacturers to build it, test the production units, and deliver a clean hand-off to manufacturing.

The products you will work on — garage door operators, controls, sensors, accessories, and connected devices across the Clopay and Cornell Cookson residential and commercial product lines — sit where electronics, motors, and mechanics meet. A broad electrical engineering foundation with electromechanical and embedded experience is essential. If you would rather see a product all the way through than hand it off halfway, we want to talk to you.

• Requirements & Architecture:
  Translate product and customer requirements into electrical specifications and system architectures for garage door operators, controls, sensors, and accessories — balancing performance, safety, cost, and manufacturability.
• Circuit Design:
  Design analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power circuits, including AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies, motor drives, sensor interfaces, microcontroller subsystems, battery backup, and wireless/RF sections.
• Electromechanical Integration:
  Partner with mechanical engineers on motors, gearing, limit and position sensing, encoders, relays, solenoids, wire harnesses, connectors, and enclosures so the electronics and mechanics work as one reliable system.
• Embedded Development:
  Select microcontrollers and write, debug, and maintain embedded C/C++ for board bring-up, motor control, sensing, safety logic, and communication interfaces; collaborate with firmware and software teams on production code.
• Schematic & PCB Design:
  Capture schematics and lay out printed circuit boards (Altium, KiCad, or similar), applying DFM/DFT, thermal, EMC, and creepage/clearance best practices.
• Prototyping:
  Build, bring up, and debug prototypes — from development boards and breadboards through quick-turn PCBs and pre-production builds — including hands‑on through-hole and surface‑mount soldering and rework.
• Design Analysis:
  Perform worst‑case, tolerance, derating, thermal, and power‑budget analyses; lead and participate in design reviews and DFMEAs.
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