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Staff Electrical Engineer

Element Science, Inc. · Redwood City, CA · 2 wk ago
HybridEngineering$170k–$185k/yrFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Deliver board-level designs including analysis, schematics, and PCB layout for Class III products with sensitive analog front-end circuits, sensors, power, and high voltage.
  • Lead electrical design work-streams within multi-disciplinary projects, ensuring scope, schedule, and deliverables are met.
  • Drive technical decision-making, balancing performance, cost, manufacturability, and regulatory requirements.
  • Develop and characterize designs through bench testing, system integration, and the creation of supporting test fixtures.
  • Qualify critical alternate components as necessary that meet design needs.
  • Perform failure analysis and document investigations to support manufacturing scale.
  • Sustaining engineering efforts: Develop designs with components selected for cost reduction or obsolescence, and support qualifying alternate suppliers.
  • Dry-run engineering tests and conduct / guide design verification test protocols.
  • Support EMC/EMI testing and compliance activities, including preparation, execution, and troubleshooting to ensure designs meet applicable IEC standards such as IEC 60601.
  • Document design descriptions and engineering analysis to support Manufacturing and Quality.
  • Support Commercial Stage activities including manufacturing support, New Product Introduction programs, and Field Failure Analysis.
  • Provide technical support for cross-functional teams, including Systems, Mechanical, Firmware, and Manufacturing Engineering.
  • Facilitate effective collaboration across disciplines, aligning design activities with project milestones and product requirements.
  • Provide peer review of designs and documentation.
  • Mentor junior engineers as the team size grows.

Qualifications

  • MSEE or BSEE with at least 10+ years of analog electronics design experience.
  • Electrical design, test, and sustaining experience for products with microprocessors, FPGAs, analog, and high-voltage electronics.
  • Experience with board bring-up, debug, and integration of embedded systems including ability to modify and compile C code for microcontrollers to support hardware testing.
  • Good understanding of product life cycle(s) management from concept through production including manufacturing follow up. DFM, DFT.
  • Experience working directly with fab and assembly CMs.
  • Familiarity with medical standards and verification to those standards and QMS for Class III medical devices.
  • Preferred knowledge of digital signal processing concepts for electrophysiology and other sensor data.
  • Familiarity with low power circuit design techniques.
  • Familiarity with electrical safety standards and HV isolation.
  • Experience with circuit and system simulation techniques desired.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Preferred experience with project leadership, including coordination with multiple disciplines from concept through manufacturing transfer.

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