Electrical Engineer

About the role

Strata Worldwide, LLC (Strata) is a global leader in electronic industrial safety products and connected solutions that promote a safer, more productive working environment. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, with an engineering center near Pittsburgh, PA, Strata provides products, engineering, and service throughout North America, Europe, Australia, South Africa, and South America in heavy industrial markets. Strata offers electronic safety platforms including wireless communications and tracking, post-emergency communications, proximity detection and collision avoidance (magnetic and camera based), hazardous gas monitoring, smart ventilation control, and Wi‑Fi voice and data networks, and is the global leader in the design and manufacturing of underground emergency refuge chambers and specialized construction products. The opening is for an Electrical Engineer focused on circuit board design, system design decisions, mechanical design to house circuit boards, and managing outsourced partners for product development when internal expertise or time is lacking.

Responsibilities

• Design, analyze, build, and test electronic hardware for mining proximity and safety products, including schematic creation and PCB layout
• Take ownership of each product’s lifecycle (design, production, field evaluation, upgrades and improvements)
• Witness firsthand product use in the field and refine as necessary
• Evaluate and integrate new sensor technologies (RF, magnetic, acoustic, visual (camera with ability to run AI model), accelerometer, GPS, and more)
• Support contract manufacturers in the areas of part obsolescence and part substitutions
• Evaluate vendor capabilities to provide required products or services

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering; minimum of 5 years of hands‑on electronic design and development; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Must have PCB layout and design experience
• Experience with Altium is preferred
• Experience designing analog circuits
• Experience in radio development or electromagnetic fields are a plus
• Experience with standard electronic test equipment including logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and multimeters
• Strong analytical and decision‑making skills
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills and ability to build and maintain key relationships
• Desire to learn new technologies
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities and easily adapt to changing situations
• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools