Electrical Engineer

Electrical Engineer

Lincoln Electric is a high-performance industrial machinery and technology leader who helps customers manufacture and maintain vital equipment and infrastructure. Lincoln Electric's innovative solutions enable higher quality and productivity across a variety of processes including welding, cutting, brazing, machining, process automation, and field repair. The Company leverages proprietary technologies and expertise in materials science, power electronics, automation, and intelligent software to help customers build better and achieve resilience in their operations. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Electric is the essential 'Linc' that keeps the economy running. The Company operates 71 manufacturing and automation facilities across 20 countries and serves customers in over 160 countries.

Job Responsibilities

• Work in product development role within a R&D environment to design, specify, test, and document electrical components, PCB assemblies, lithium-ion battery systems, and complete arc welding.
• Focus will be on power electronics, embedded hardware design, battery system architecture, battery chemistry selection, and IEC safety standards.
• Perform and supervise the testing of new designs, processes, warranty improvements, and cost reductions, including coordinating the activities of technical R&D support personnel.
• Design and develop main power electronics architecture for arc welding machines, including DC-AC inverters, AC-DC rectifiers, DC-DC converters, and magnetic components (transformers, chokes).
• Design, prototype, and test PCB circuits, layouts, and electromagnetic devices required for arc welding equipment and battery management systems using PCB design tools (Altium, PADS and Mentor Graphics) and by conducting FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) and WCA (Worst-Case Circuit Analysis).
• Implement fault detection, sensing circuitry, thermal runaway protection, shortcircuit protection, and overcharge/discharge safeguards to ensure isolation, EMI/EMC compliance design, and fail-safe/redundancy mechanisms for compliance with functional ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 safety standards.
• Implement real-time control algorithms, PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation) generation techniques, ADC (Analog-to Digital Converter) and DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) interfacing and digital communication protocols including CAN (J1939 and I2C) for system communication for hardware development, diagnostics, and firmware validation testing.
• Perform thermal modeling, lifetime prediction, and aging analysis of electronic components and battery systems using simulation tools including Mathcad, MATLAB, and Simulink.
• Perform UL/CE/EMC compliance, functional safety, automated testing, and validate system- level hardware using Python, RSLogix, and LabVIEW.
• Validate system-level hardware and firmware design through HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) testing environmental stress testing, and automated test setups using Python, RS Logix, and LabVIEW.
• Use firmware development software such as C/C++ and Linux-based systems for diagnostics, logging, and remote firmware updates.
• Develop test specifications for production use.

Job Requirements

• Must have Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Electronics Engineering or foreign equivalent.
• Must have 8 years of experience as an Electrical Engineer or related.
• Must have 8 years of experience with product development with a focus on power electronics, embedded design, and battery systems.
• Must have 8 years of experience real-time control algorithms, PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation) generation, ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter) and DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) interfacing, and digital communication protocols (I2C or CAN).
• Must have 8 years of experience with simulation tools (MATLAB, Mathcad, or LTSpice), PCB design tools (Altium, PADS, or Mentor Graphics), and firmware development (C/C++).
• Must have 3 years of experience with UL/CE/EMC compliance, functional safety, and automated testing (Python, RSLogix, and LabVIEW) for system-level validation.
• Must have 3 years of experience with battery management architecture, battery chemistry, and IEC safety standards.
• Must have 3 years of experience with Linux-based systems for diagnostics, logging, and remote firmware updates.
• Must have 3 years of experience in a manufacturing environment (design for manufacturing, production troubleshooting, finished product testing, etc.).

Lincoln Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting equal employment opportunity for applicants, without regard to their race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

Nearest Major Market: Cleveland

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