Senior Electrical Engineer
Allient · Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area · 1 wk ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
Responsibilities
- Architect, Design, and Develop Embedded Motion Control Hardware
- Design, implement, and optimize embedded electronics hardware for motion control, servo drives, power electronics, motor control, and industrial automation systems.
- Own electrical system architecture spanning power conversion, analog, digital, sensing, communications, and mixed-signal domains.
- Perform component selection, circuit design, tradeoff analysis, and schematic development.
- Contribute to hardware platform strategy, subsystem definition, and product architecture decisions.
- Support PCB implementation, layout collaboration, stack-up design, grounding, thermal, DFM/DFT, and hardware integration activities.
- Translate product requirements into robust, manufacturable, and scalable electrical designs and low level engineering specifications.
- Lead Hardware Bring-Up, Debugging, and Validation
- Lead board bring-up, electrical debugging, characterization, and root cause investigation from prototype through production release.
- Troubleshoot electrical, mixed-signal, and power electronics issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power instrumentation, and engineering diagnostic methods.
- Analyze switching behavior, efficiency, thermal performance, EMI/EMC, grounding, and signal integrity.
- Develop and execute validation, verification, and hardware characterization activities.
- Drive technical issues from initial symptom through corrective action and validated resolution.
- Support Product Development, Integration, and Manufacturing Readiness
- Support hardware/firmware integration, system-level debugging, and motion control system development across the product lifecycle.
- Support design verification, validation, EMC/EMI, safety, regulatory, and agency compliance activities, ensuring adherence to hardware development best practices and industry standards.
- Support transition from prototype through manufacturing release, production readiness, and sustaining activities, including investigation of manufacturing, field, and customer-reported technical issues.
- Manage projects independently, adapting to complexity and scale while collaborating across teams to align electrical development activities with product objectives and organizational goals.
- Provide Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers.
- Contribute to technology roadmaps and strategic planning for electronics development.
- Lead and actively participate in all phases of the product lifecycle—architecture, implementation, review, documentation, testing, release, and long-term maintenance.
- Support coordination across teams, including software/firmware, QA, and product management.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 10+ years of professional experience in embedded electronics development.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex embedded systems or product architectures in production environments.
- Expert-level experience with electronics architecture, power, analog, digital, and mixed signal circuits.
- Expert-level proficiency in detailed circuit design, modeling, analysis, and schematic capture (Altium).
- Expert-level proficiency with electronic test and measurement equipment.
- Strong experience with PCB layout and board-level design practices (PCB stack-up, thermal management, grounding, noise mitigation, signal integrity, and design for EMC/EMI compliance).
- Strong experience in hands-on bring-up, test, and debugging of embedded electronics and power stages.
- Knowledge of, or demonstrated ability to rapidly learn and apply key technologies including power conversion (SiC, GaN, MOSFET, IGBT), BLDC / PMSM motor systems, DC / DC conversion, inverter stages, signal conditioning, feedback devices (EnDat, BiSS, SSI, hall sensors), EtherCAT, CAN.
- Experience supporting EMC/EMI, safety, validation, or agency compliance activities (UL / CE).
- Must be a U.S. person due to ITAR regulations.