Principal Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Principal Electrical Engineer  

Responsibilities:

• To take primary technical leadership in the design, management, and support for our motion control product lines:
  • Synchro / Resolver to Digital converters
  • DATEL A to D, and D to A converters
  • Switched-mode multi-phase Brushless DC Motor (BLDC) drivers & controllers
• This role requires a deep understanding of analog / mixed signal circuit analysis and design techniques, to meet demanding dynamic range, EMI, noise and power specifications. The candidate should possess strong technical leadership, in order to drive our interdisciplinary Engineering team through all phases of product life cycle development- from requirements, architecture, and detailed design, through to design validation, device verification, qualification, including support for the handoffs to test and product manufacturing. Our product lines require continuous obsolescence review, with support for alternate part qualification or redesign, to help our military & aerospace customers manage the product life cycle.
• Extract clear requirements and specs from marketing inputs, customer documents & meetings.
• Engage early with the customer, to guide requirements toward those that yield a more realizable, higher value product.
• Distill large-scale designs down to their architectural elements, and develop unique, innovative analog & digital hardware solutions. Consider & pursue patent applications as differentiators to secure our competitive advantage.
• Generate reports, present findings & provide continuous feedback to the team throughout the review process- good communication is essential.
• Develop creative approaches that favorably optimize complex design tradeoffs for: product cost, performance, feature set, time to market, and technical risk.
• Follow a defined design process, coordinating technical reviews with the associated disciplines to facilitate good DFM outcomes in terms of yields, cost and performance.
• Manage support and verification activities (thermal, electrical stress, worst-case, FMEA, tolerance, aging, and EMI analyses, performance simulations, and design verification) to ensure all requirements are met for the intended application.
• Develop project plans, budgets, schedules;