Sr. Embedded Engineer

Job Summary

The Sr. Embedded Engineer is responsible for contributing to the design, development and support of motor controls and associated accessories. The ideal candidate is detail oriented, organized, and collaborative, with a strong interest in global mobility, cross-border employment matters, and supporting a positive employee experience throughout the assignment life cycle.

Specific Job Responsibilities

• Support the design and development activities of motor control electronics through all stages of the product development life cycle.
• Participate in designing motor control electronics ranging from low voltage DC products to 120/240Vac line powered products and including 480Vac industrial products. Typical design tasks include writing design specifications, performing design analysis and simulations, capturing circuit schematics, participating in design reviews, guiding the PCB layout process, creating BOMs and assembly drawings, and overseeing prototype, engineering validation, design verification, and agency certification phases of projects.
• Implement OEM specific Hardware or software feature requirements in the existing and new products.
• Create and maintain project documentation – design requirements, BOMs, test procedures, drawings, Software documentation, test reports and manuals.
• Work with manufacturing to introduce designs into production on schedule, including creation of test specifications and collaboration on test equipment.
• Work with PCB designers to ensure schematic, part library, component placement and trace routing are done correctly.
• Work with software, mechanical, motor design, and application groups to optimize product designs for low cost and high quality.
• Work with the quality group to support failure analysis and recommend design and process changes to improve product quality.

Customer and Travel Requirements

• Customers: Interface with potential OEM customers to clarify required specifications.
• Travel: Support testing and customer support at off-site locations as required.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
• Desirable: Master of Science in Electronic Engineering.
• Qualifications: Experience in power electronics products; inverters, dc-dc converters and switching power supplies; working knowledge in the design of conditioning and sensing circuitry for adjustable speed drives; proficient in developing embedded code in C and assembly; experience working with peripherals and communications protocols such as USB, SPI, I2C, UART, Modbus, CAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, A/D converters and discrete I/O; experience in configuring and developing code for a Real Time Operating System; experience working with voltage levels, protection, and component selections up to 480Vac; familiar with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, DVMs, signal generators, power supplies and other standard EE lab equipment; possess strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills for the repair of digital circuits and analog circuits to component levels; experienced in SCR, TRIAC, IGBT and MOSFET technology; working knowledge of gate driver circuits for IGBTs, MOSFETs and fly-back power converter topologies; experience configuring and working with development environments, JTAG and debugging tools; example: Code Composer Studio, Code Warrior; experience with software version control; familiarity with troubleshooting electro-mechanical test systems; ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment, supporting multiple people and managing multiple and diverse tasks/projects; excellent analytical and organizational skills; excellent communication skills; experience: 5 years of applicable experience in a product development environment.
• Desirable: At least 7 years of applicable experience in a product development environment.

Work Environment and Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• The noise level in this environment is moderate.
• The employee must comply with the assigned location requirements including but not limited to safety glasses, hearing protection, appropriate gloves, clothing and shields for required tasks and closed toed or safety shoes as required by facility safety policies.

Additional Job Details

• EEO and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace.
• No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers.
• Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.