Staff Electrical Engineer(Direct Hire)
Itasca, IL
Job Requisition:7326
Annual Salary Range: $150 - 170K. Individual salaries are based on education, geographic location, and alignment to the market data.
Description for Staff Electrical Engineer:
The Staff Electrical Systems Engineer will take a lead role in developing electronics hardware, firmware, and software for organ transport devices and systems.
Responsibilities forStaff Electrical Engineer:
- Maintain and improve electronics hardware and systems in current products. This may include hands-on troubleshooting, design changes to address problems or new regulatory requirements, improvements in features and reliability, and proactive design changes in response to component obsolescence.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand user needs and improve existing products and develop new products which meet those needs. May perform technical assessment of competitive system designs.
- Responsible for electronic and software system development as a technical contributor and as a team leader.
- For electronic and electrical designs, responsible for documentation and transfer to manufacturing and external suppliers.
- Hands-on responsibility for detailed circuit design, simulation, prototype construction, in-house testing, and external system testing to meet regulatory requirements.
- For firmware and software development, will be responsible for closely managing internal and external developers. May write code as a technical contributor.
- Mentor other associates and help them improve their electronics knowledge and skill.
- Have a key role in the continuous improvement of processes and procedures for design control and regulatory compliance of electronics and software in products.
Requirements forStaff Electrical Engineer:
- BSEE. Advanced Electrical Engineering degree preferred.
- Must have had at least eight years post-degree work experience in the design and development of electronic and software devices and products in industry.
- Work should have been in a range of applications or industries and demonstrate broad, rather than highly specialized, experience.
- Work experience should demonstrate practical ability to integrate electronics. firmware, and software into complex systems.
- Must have experience developing products and systems from initial concept through design, prototyping, testing, and to full production realization.
- Must have had direct experience taking products through a regulated test and certification process such as UL, TUV, or CE.
- Must have experience developing electronics and software for medical devices.
- Experience in project management is desirable.
- Must have a solid grounding in electrical and electronic principles and theory.
- Must be knowledgeable in a wide range of electronics, including analog, digital, power supplies, EMI/EMC compliance, sensors, and embedded firmware.
- Must have at least basic skill in software programming in C, C+, C*, or equivalent languages.
- Must have experience using computer-aided-design software for schematic design, simulation, and circuit board layout. Must have strong practical knowledge of circuit board production and testing methods.
- Must have practical experience in experimental measurements, data collection, and statistical analysis.
- In-depth knowledge of applicable electrical regulations and testing, such as IEC-60601, is highly desirable.
- People or project leadership strongly desired.
