Senior Electrical Engineer - Aerospace Manufacturing

Job Description

Job Description

What you will be doing:

• Design mixed-signal, analog, and digital electronic hardware
• Design and troubleshoot power electronic hardware, including power conversion circuits, switching devices, protection circuits, current sensing, transient protection, and thermal management considerations
• PCB design using Altium Designer
• Create, maintain, and release electrical engineering drawings and technical documentation
• Circuit simulation using LTspice, hardware troubleshooting, board bring-up, and design verification
• Design and troubleshoot communication interfaces, including CAN, RS-422, RS-485, and SPI
• Develop verification tests, analyzing test results, and preparing engineering documentation
• Utilize laboratory test equipment, including oscilloscopes, current probes, power analyzers, and digital multimeters
• Electronic hardware assembly, modification, and rework activities, including soldering, component replacement, prototype modifications, and hardware troubleshooting

What you need to qualify:

• 10+ years of experience in electrical/electronic hardware design and development
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline required
• Experience developing electronic hardware throughout the product lifecycle, including concept development, design, verification, qualification, and production release
• Hands-on experience building, troubleshooting, and validating electronic hardware, including board bring-up, laboratory testing, and hardware integration
• Ability to support qualification testing at external test facilities and travel as required (up to 15%)
• Experience working directly with external suppliers and partners, including PCB fabrication and assembly vendors, component manufacturers and distributors, and 3rd-party qualification test laboratories
• Strong experience designing mixed-signal, analog, and digital electronic hardware
• Strong hands-on experience designing and troubleshooting power electronic hardware, including power conversion circuits, switching devices, protection circuits, current sensing, transient protection, and thermal management considerations
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB design using Altium Designer
• Experience creating, maintaining, and releasing electrical engineering drawings and technical documentation
• Knowledge of IPC PCB design practices and electronic component selection
• Experience with circuit simulation using LTspice, hardware troubleshooting, board bring-up, and design verification
• Experience designing and troubleshooting communication interfaces: CAN, RS-422, RS-485, and SPI
• Experience developing verification tests, analyzing test results, preparing engineering documentation
• Proficiency using laboratory test equipment, including oscilloscopes, current probes, power analyzers, and digital multimeters
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with electronic hardware assembly, modification, and rework activities, including soldering, component replacement, prototype modifications, and hardware troubleshooting

Preferred Experience and Skillsets:

• Experience in aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability industries
• Experience supporting DO-160 qualification testing
• Experience with aerospace electronic hardware development and DO-254 design assurance processes
• Experience supporting EMI/EMC compliance
• testing, troubleshooting, and corrective actions
• Hands-on experience designing motor drive electronics, including H-bridge topologies, MOSFET/IGBT gate drivers, current sensing circuits, protection circuits, and thermal management for high-power components
• Experience integrating and conditioning signals from motor feedback systems, including Hall effect sensors, encoders, resolvers, and phase current sensing circuits
• Familiarity with embedded hardware/software integration
• Knowledge of EMI/EMC design principles, including grounding, shielding, filtering, and transient protection techniques

DISCLAIMER: The compensation range represents a good faith estimate of what our client may pay for the position at the time of posting. Our client may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, but not based on a candidate’s gender or any other protected status.

\nCompany Description

An established and growing aerospace manufacturing company whose products are found in nearly every commercial aircraft.

Company Description

An established and growing aerospace manufacturing company whose products are found in nearly every commercial aircraft.