Job Details:
- We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Electrical Engineer to work within our Motion and Sensors Division in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
- In this role, you will be responsible for leading the design, development, and execution of projects utilizing embedded electronic controls for the clients of electromechanical devices: actuators and brushless DC (BLDC) motors, in the aerospace and defense markets.
- This position requires a solid understanding of analog and digital circuit design and layout, power electronics, high speed digital interfaces, FPGAs, DSPs, microcontrollers, DACs/ADCs, electric motor control theory, embedded software/firmware, system controls and overall system mathematical modeling.
- The Senior Electrical Engineer is responsible for reviewing and interpreting customer requirements, both technical and programmatic, and assessing the level of effort required to fulfill them both in terms of time and material from an electronics perspective.
- This position is also responsible for contributing to sales proposal efforts, prototype development and other New Product Introduction (NPI) activities culminating in the transition of new products into production.
Required Skills:
- Technical versatility in electronics design, electronics hardware/software integration, and system electromechanical integration
- Experience in industry standards such as DO-254, DO-178C, MIL-STD-882E is a plus.
- Knowledge of relevant DO-160, MIL-STD-461, IPC and IEC standards for electronics development
- Efficiently executes design and/or proposal analyses using Altium, Matlab®, Mathcad®, and Pspice® (or other computer-aided engineering/simulation tools)
- Electronic components and test equipment (oscilloscopes, power analyzers, etc.)Systems engineering (requirements-based design and project execution)
- Analog and digital circuit design
- Printed circuit board (PCB) layout, manufacturing and assembly processes
- Electromagnetic interference and susceptibility design methods
- Experience with lightning protection
- Customer-centric attitude
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to motivate and lead cross-functional teams
- Action-oriented, responsive, thorough, and attention to detail
- Accepts and positively responds to constructive criticism to improve personal and project performance
Required Experience:
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering required; M.S. in Electrical Engineering preferred.
- Minimum 5 years required, 10+ years preferred in digital motion controls and power electronic design, including experience in the following:
- DC and AC Motors
- Rotary and linear power transmission components (gears, ballscrews, etc).
- Various position feedback devices (resolvers, RVDT/LVDT, encoders, etc.)
- DSP/FPGA based servo systems
- Must be able to work on U.S. government programs and/or obtain security clearance in the future.
This position is located at our Black Mountain NC facility. Relocation assistance is available