Electrical Engineer (Altium)

Job Title: Electrical Engineer (Altium)

Location: Boulder, CO

Contract Length: 12-months

Ideal Start Date: Mid-April

Work Model: on-site with occasional hybrid days

Scope: Electrical engineering position within the R+D Hardware Engineering team at The Companies Analytical Instruments designing, testing, and integrating PCBAs into analytical instrumentation as part of new product development.

• Create PCBA designs and BOMs through the creation of detailed drawings, schematics, PCB layouts, and models using applications such as Altium following best practices
• Design digital and analog hardware utilizing FPGAs, microprocessors, ADCs/DACs, power supplies, and control circuitry to meet functional and performance specifications following best practices
• Participate in design activities through design reviews, prototyping, and communicating schedules, milestones, and status to project teams
• Create and execute test plans to qualify components and board designs, verify performance, and document results
• Coordinate with contract manufacturers, troubleshoot and bring up PCBAs, and ultimately release your design to production using Engineering Change Orders and a Configuration Management release process

MUSTS:

• 5+ years of experience in analog design as well as product design, development, and test of electronic assemblies and instruments
• Bachelors in electrical engineering or electrical and computer engineering

Solid technical background with understanding of digital and analog electronic circuit design, electronic systems, as well as related software

• Experience using engineering CAD tools for circuit board design and schematic capture (Altium Preferred)
• Strong problem-solving skills with a hands-on approach to troubleshooting while working in a lab environment during board bring-up, characterization, and system level hardware integration using test equipment such as a DMM, oscilloscope, pulse generator, current probe, spectrum analyzer, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to effectively work within a larger cross functional team
• Ability to develop new designs
• familiar with component selection

PLUS:

• Knowledge of PCB manufacture and assembly processes including Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT)
• Experience designing for EMI/ESD protection
• Experience integrating embedded system processors, low-level firmware, and FPGAs
• Familiar with circuit simulation and modeling tools such as PSPICE and MATLAB
• Agile, rapid prototyping mindset when working with other team members to expediently explore parallel options and provide recommendations for the best approach