Electrical Engineer (Ph.D

Exponent

Exponent is the only premium engineering and scientific consulting firm with the depth and breadth of expertise to solve our clients' most profoundly unique, unprecedented, and urgent challenges.

Our vision is to engage multidisciplinary teams of science, engineering, and regulatory experts to empower clients with solutions that create a safer, healthier, more sustainable world. For over five decades, we've connected the lessons of past failures with tomorrow's solutions to advise clients as they innovate technologically complex products and processes, ensure the safety and health of their users, and address the challenges of sustainability.

Join our team of experts with degrees from top programs at over 500 universities and extensive experience spanning a variety of industries. At Exponent, you'll contribute to the diverse pool of ideas, talents, backgrounds, and experiences that drives our collaborative teamwork and breakthrough insights. Plus, we help you grow your career through mentoring, sponsorship, and a culture of learning. Thanks for your interest in joining our team!

Key statistics:

• 950+ Consultants
• 640+ Ph.D.s
• 90+ Disciplines
• 30+ Offices globally

We are currently seeking an Electrical Engineer for our Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Practice in Menlo Park, CA. In this role, you will work as part of a team to help our clients solve challenging technical problems which are often urgent, high profile, and multi-disciplinary. You will be involved in a variety of projects with applications such as consumer electronics, appliances, medical devices, electrical infrastructure, and others.

You will have the opportunity to define and shape your individual consulting practice based on your skills and interests.

• Performing analysis/consulting on a variety of scientific/engineering problems in a variety of electrical/electronic components, products, and systems
• Supporting project areas that include both reactive and proactive issues facing our clients: failure analysis, risk assessment, reliability, design, manufacturing, and others
• Working as an individual contributor as well as in multidisciplinary teams
• Researching and developing novel methodologies to answer cutting-edge scientific- and engineering-based problems
• Participating at every stage of a project lifecycle: scoping and proposals; design of experiments; conducting and supervising tests; collecting and analyzing data; preparing reports; and presenting to clients
• Pursuing business development opportunities

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field such as Applied Physics or Optics
• 1-2 years of relevant experience in industry or postdoc after completing a Ph.D. is preferred
• Technical focus in electronics, semiconductors, circuits, electromagnetics, power electronics, or related cross-disciplinary areas
• Experience building bench-top or product-level optical systems or building medical devices strongly preferred
• Experience with electrical test equipment, designing, validating and conducting electrical tests, and troubleshooting
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to convey technical conclusions to both technical and non-technical staff in engineering, business, and industry
• Self-starter with strong fundamentals and first-principles thinking, interested in learning about new topics
• Strong desire to help clients with their technical needs
• Presently legally authorized to work in the United States; no immigration sponsorship or processing required

Applicants are encouraged to submit a CV (Curriculum Vitae) with publications (feel free to include publications that are in review or pending) [not restricted to 1 page].

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