Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineer (ROCHESTER)

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Job Title: Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineer

Job Code: 40874

Job Location: Rochester, NY

Job Schedule: 5/8: Employees work 8 hours per day, 5 days a week

Job Description:

The successful candidate will join a team of dedicated professionals who are responsible for supporting military communication products throughout their lifecycle. As a Product Support Engineer you will be tasked with investigating a variety of problems related to Analog, Digital, and RF. Candidates with experience in any of these areas will be considered. Working from our lab adjacent to manufacturing you will collaborate across multifunctional teams to diagnose problems to component level, determine solutions via experimentation and simulation and implement corrective actions. As an extension of design engineering, you will have the opportunity to learn and grow while providing electrical engineering support to technicians and junior engineers. As new products are launched you will interface across engineering, assisting with root cause analysis, troubleshooting of prototypes and ensuring a successful launch into full-rate production.

Typical tasks include:

• Monitoring daily factory yields, investigating failures, and determining corrective actions.
• Mitigating component shortages through selecting and qualifying alternatives or redesigning circuits and sub-assemblies.
• Determining design, process, and test improvements to increase test yields and product quality.
• Working as part of a cross-functional team to meet manufacturability, testability and other DFx requirements for volume production.
• Working with other engineering teams to make necessary circuit changes prior to and during the launch of new products.
• Working to mitigate component obsolescence throughout the product lifecycle.
• Provide guidance to junior staff by providing assistance as they investigate problems.
• Lead investigations, coordinate tasks, and direct junior staff as required.
• Work with Quality and Supply Chain to address material discrepancies.
• Troubleshooting unit, modules, and boards to the component level.

• Support digital and related analog hardware designs.
• Perform detailed analysis of analog, digital and/or RF circuitry.

Essential Functions:

• Hardware troubleshooting ability to component level for analog and digital circuits.
• Ability to work independently and within a team setting.
• Ability to design and conduct engineering experiments and act upon test results.
• Design and analysis of circuits and components utilizing various simulation tools.
• Experienced in leading small technical design or troubleshooting team, providing direction and prioritizing tasks to meet target yields and shipments.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment interfacing with multiple teams across the organization.
• Ability to use typical lab equipment: Oscilloscope, DMM, Spectrum & Network analyzers, logic analyzers and signal generators.
• A driven person that wants to learn and is a proven problem solver.
• Able to analyze designs and communicate technical information to support staff.