Job Description

Job Title: Senior Product Electrical Engineer                                       Department: Engineering 

Reports to: Engineering Manager                                                        FLSA (Exempt / Non Exempt): Exempt

Job Summary: Responsible for design and development of electrical control systems, instrumentation, and equipment into various applications. The position provides research and design, implementation, and technical support of electrical hardware, embedded firmware, and supporting software for new products. The position will focus effort on integrating emerging communication technologies to provide ease of use of our products and add-on electronic options that create simplified user experience.

Job Details: 

• Collaborates with Engineering team, Process Engineering team, Product Manager, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service, to help guide the next generation product roadmap.
• Works in close collaboration with Electrical Engineering Team, Mechanical Engineering Team, and Production Engineering Team from design concept inception to optimize the design for better performance, higher quality, lower cost, and simplified manufacturability.
• As part of the engineering design team, this position develops products based on a defined product roadmap.
• Develop system architecture, hardware and software specifications, schedules, cost estimates, test strategies, prototypes, schematics, and printed circuit board designs aligned with business objectives.
• Applies the principles and techniques of electrical engineering using analysis tools related to the design, development, and implementation of hardware and software for products. 
• Implements the design of ultra-low power microcontroller based digital systems, low noise/high gain analog circuits, LCD interfaces, and wireless communication for future IoT compatibility.
• Generate low level firmware drivers and higher-level firmware application code in C programming language.
• Participates in hardware and software design reviews and product validation to increase design confidence and reduce product cycle time.
• Will use measurement theory, statistics, and excel spreadsheets to analyze prototype performance
• Coordinates with engineering lab personnel to perform performance and optimization analysis on prototypes while ensuring 100% feature verification testing in all available product configurations.
• Supports regression testing of new application-level software releases and bug fixes.
• Troubleshoot circuit design or firmware related problems during development and with products transitioning to production.
• Support the creation of calibration, configuration, and functional test standards in collaboration with production process engineers.
• Support development of circuit board and sub-assembly test fixtures including writing specifications and/or creating the test fixtures as needed for use in the GPI factory and at our contract manufacturer’s facility.
• Work in close collaboration with Operations and Process Engineering to ensure manufacturing assembly effectiveness and to support all changes that may affect production.

• It is the responsibility of all GPI employees to:
  1. Comply with all Safety requirements of the position and the facility.
  2. Follow the policies outlined in the Employee handbook and the posted Work Rules for GPI and behave in an ethical manner.
• This Job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities of the employee.  The employee may be assigned other responsibilities as required of the position

Job Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
• Minimum of 7 years of electrical design experience including schematic capture and PCB layout.
• Well versed with standard electronics lab equipment: Power Supplies, DVM, O-scope, and Logic Analyzer.
• Strong background in firmware code development and debugging using In Circuit Emulators (ICE). 
• MS Office Products with strong experience in Excel.
• Teamwork – Strong understanding of team dynamics and fosters teamwork.
• Driven – This individual should be a self-motivated, self-starter with a dedicated work ethic and an emphasis on setting and meeting expectations and product schedules with little direction.
• Organized - Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Mentor – Will help junior engineers learn the skills (hardware and software design techniques) they need to advance the experience level of the entire engineering team.

Preferred

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Working knowledge of antenna theory and ultrasonic transducer design theory. 
• Proficient with Texas Instruments MSP430 processors and Code Composer Studio
• Proficient with SAML2x microcontrollers and Microchip Studio IDE.
• 10 years of writing embedded firmware for microcontrollers in C
• Schematic capture and PCB layout experience using Altium Designer software.  
• Familiarity with UL, IECEX, ATEX, and NSF compliance standards.
• Experience with 3rd party compliance testing (FCC, CE) and debugging EMI/EMC issues at the test lab.
• Experience with IoT theory and product design integration.

Job Requirements:

Physical:

• Physical: Ability to lift 25lbs minimum 
• Must be able to wear steel toe safety shoes, safety glasses and other PPE equipment as required for work in Engineering Lab.

Tools / Equipment: Engineering Lab equipment.

Working Conditions: 1st shift in Engineering Lab and standard office.