Senior Electrical Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Electrical Engineer you will participate in the development and support of our airborne particle counter families. This full-time position requires technical and interpersonal maturity to work well within a multi-disciplinary environment as well as a pragmatic drive to deliver results towards product realization.

• Circuit design for new instruments or updates for exiting instruments using Altium
• Circuit simulation or analysis where applicable, with documentation tied to designs
• BOM creation and management
• Board layout with Altium, interfacing with PCB fabrication and assembly partners
• Lead electrical compliance efforts, such as Safety (UL/TUV), and EMC
• Board documentation, theory of operation, bring-up procedures, troubleshooting notes
• Board bring-up, testing and characterization, data captured and annotated
• Interface with firmware team to support integration efforts
• Interface with production team to hand-off new designs or upgrades
• Interface with quality team to address short/long-term issues
• Help in the creation of subsystem build and deployment procedures where applicable
• Provide second-tier support to troubleshoot and root-cause issues with incoming goods, or instruments returned for service. Resolve issues and document them
• Train or direct technicians/assemblers to troubleshoot issues

• Ability to multi-task
• Flexibility to work as business needs dictate
• Significant experience with Altium Designer for schematic capture and board layout
• Experience and desire to work in a collaborative team environment and proactive engagement in innovation / problem solving, and all aspects of communication

• 7-10 years’ experience in electrical design
• Direct project engineering or technical lead experience managing design tasks
• Must be authorized to work in the United States

• Some simulation and analytical experience a plus
• Significant FPGA experience a plus
• Significant firmware experience a plus
• Must demonstrate excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Experience creating set-up documents and operation procedures for manufacturing specifications
• Comfortable using business applications (email, spreadsheets, etc.)

• Electrical Engineering BS or equivalent

While performing the duties of this job, this position is regularly sedentary in nature with extensive use of a computer screen, but may require standing and walking, and the ability to intermittently kneel, stoop, bend at the waist, twist at the waist and reach. Along with the ability to read, write, and communicate clearly. This position may occasionally lift up to 20 lbs.

(boxes, paper, office supplies, etc.).

5% travel may be required primarily in the US

Particles Plus engineers and manufactures feature-rich particle counters and air quality monitoring instrumentation. The company serves the Life Science, Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Indoor Air Quality, Industrial Health & Safety, Cosmetic, Semiconductor, Aerospace and Data Storage industries. Particles Plus is headquartered in Massachusetts and has engineering in Los Altos and Fremont, California as well as Grants Pass, Oregon.