Sr. Electrical Design Engineer

About the role

Eaton Aerospace in Bethel, CT, with support to Glenolden, PA, has an opening for a Senior Electrical Design Engineer specializing in the design, development, integration, and validation of pressure transducers, analog sensing systems, and aerospace electronic hardware. The primary function of this position is to lead electrical design activities for both sustaining products and new product development, with a focus on sensor electronics, signal conditioning circuits, analog measurement systems, and electromechanical sensor integration. The engineer will be responsible for translating customer requirements into robust electronic designs that meet aerospace standards for accuracy, reliability, environmental performance, and manufacturability. This position requires expertise in analog sensor technologies including pressure, temperature, and MEMS-based sensing devices. Design activities include schematic capture, PCB design oversight, circuit simulation, sensor characterization, tolerance analysis, design verification, qualification testing, and configuration control throughout the product lifecycle. The Senior Electrical Design Engineer will work closely with mechanical engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and customer engineering teams to develop products from concept through production utilizing Eaton's Phase-Gate product development process.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering solutions that meet customer performance requirements, interface details, reliability, cost and schedule requirements.
• Works with customers to define explicit non-ambiguous requirements.
• Provides technical direction for assigned projects from initial concept phase to product delivery.
• Understand electro-mechanical systems and robust design methods.
• Responsible for concept layout, modeling, detailing, release and change management of drawings in configuration control system.
• Ensures compliance to Quality system requirements.
• Perform component selection based upon accuracy, reliability, environmental conditions, lifecycle, and cost requirements.
• Capable of working directly with the customer and clearly discuss drawings, engineering reports, and manufacturing processes.
• Review customer specifications and drawings and developing Compliance Matrices against requirements.
• Manage and release drawings, models and documentation through Eaton’s product lifecycle management system.
• Develop plans for design verification and validation testing for design compliance.
• Provides support in the testing environment.
• Implement product improvement and cost reduction initiatives by evaluating engineering