This fulltime Electrical Engineer opportunity is with our client, who is a leading provider of laser technology for industrial, scientific, and medical applications. We are currently seeking a full-time Electrical Engineer to complement their Engineering Team to develop novel electronic circuits and systems for our application-specific gas lasers. The new EE will work on designing a diverse range of high-power and high-frequency circuits and will collaborate with other engineers for improving the existing designs.

They are a rapidly growing company, experiencing double-digit revenue growth in recent years. They provide leading-edge gas-discharge-excited laser technologies to global industries in the medical, semiconductor, electronic, manufacturing, and scientific development R&D markets. They focus on creative designs that match their customers’ applications and solve difficult problems with innovative solutions. Our client strives to provide a challenging and supportive environment where team members are encouraged to go beyond ordinary thinking and challenge the normal with the truly ingenious. Our client’s team is their greatest asset and supporting their employee’s career development is the greatest investment they can make in their future growth and success.

In 2017 our client became a member company of one of the world’s largest manufacturers of lasers, photonics, and laser systems. Although they have retained the agility and flexibility of a small company, both their business and their employees now have access to new opportunities for growth in a larger successful parent organization.

On a daily basis you will:

• Work as part of a small, dedicated engineering team to design prototypes and products for application-specific RF and analog circuits and systems.
• Typical design project involves requirements definition, circuit simulation, schematic capture, PCB layout, testing in the lab, troubleshooting, optimization as needed, and documentation.
• Support sustaining activities of existing products including minor design changes, dealing with obsolescence issues, improving yield and manufacturability, etc.
• Participate in all concepts, preliminary, and critical design reviews.
• Write test reports & procedures for prototype, first article, and V&V.
• Support production by designing test fixtures, test automation, and writing test procedures.

What you bring:

• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with min 3 years of experience or B.Sc. with more than 5 years of experience.
• Experience in simulating, designing, and testing discrete linear/nonlinear analog circuits with an emphasis on power amplifiers.
• Experience with EDA tools for PCB layout (e.g. Altium)
• Excellent competency with lab test equipment including signal generator, network & spectrum analyzers, power meter, oscilloscope, etc.
• Familiarity with simulation software.
• Familiarity with good design practices and design for manufacturing (DFM) concepts.

Other desired skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to perform in a fast-paced and multi-disciplinary product development environment.
• Provide engineering and technical support to operations for all products released for manufacturing:
  • Quality issues.
  • Component issues; end-of-life, quality, shortages, long lead times, etc.
  • Risk mitigation; testing & validation for alternate component sourcing, procedure experiments, etc.

• Document new designs by entering BOM and design data into our configuration management system (Agile).
• Documentation: assembly drawings, fabrication drawings, Golden-sample schematics, etc.
• Promote scientific rigor and individual skills advancement within the company’s technical team.

What's so great about this employer? 

At their core, our client is an idea company, which is driving expansion and tremendous revenue growth. They are customer-driven, and design application-specific products that fit the individual needs of their customers. This requires highly motivated and dedicated teams. You will have the opportunity to be innovative in your work as they are constantly evolving their products and solving new problems with our customers. Our client owes their success to their people. They take great pride in investing in their team and strive to continually grow and improve their company and culture.

Our client loves what they do. Their goal is to go above and beyond for each other and their customers. Their teams are creative, smart, and talented which makes each project exciting. You will have plenty of guidance and support to help us continue moving our impactful technology to the next level.

Their parent company shares the same core values and supports both their team and their drive for continuous innovation in laser technology. They are proud to be part of one of the largest technology companies led by a woman.

Perks at our client:

• Great benefits including a generous PTO Plan, 401K with a match, and medical/dental/vision insurances
• They support learning and do provide educational
• Work-life balance is accommodated to promote success in and out of workplace
• Team events that are family oriented
• Free parking
• Fitness reimbursement