Hardware Engineer

Have you ever used the self-checkout? Played the slots at a casino? Maybe you grabbled a drink for a vending machine or paid to park your car? If you answered with a resounding "YES", then you have done so with the aid of one of the 10 million devices installed by Crane Payment Innovations (CPI).

We make the technology that powers your everyday life, enabling more than 4 billion transactions every week in more than 143 currencies worldwide. From cash and coins to cards and mobile, we keep the world of payments moving with smart validation devices and business management software.

Headquartered in Malvern, PA, CPI is supported by more than 2500 global associates, 7 manufacturing sites, 12 corporate offices, and a national field service organization.

If you want to have a hands-on global impact on payment solutions, we want you to join our team as a Hardware Engineer. This is a full-time position based in our facility at CPI in Williston, South Carolina

What You Will Be Doing

As our Hardware Engineer, you will provide dedicated electrical engineering expertise for a team focused on delivering cost reduction projects and engineering production support for various CPI product lines. This position will involve concept development and validation, prototype preparation, and design activities to improve quality, value, and cost for CPI products. In addition, the engineer will cooperate with Quality, Production, and Supply Chain departments whenever design engineering support is required.

This Role Will Be Responsible For

• Analyzing and verifying alternate hardware designs and part sourcing opportunities and identify cost reduction opportunities
• Generating schematics and perform detailed circuit analysis to verify design compliance to specific performance targets
• Creating, simulating, prototyping, and implementing value engineering product redesigns
• Managing projects and creating/tracking project plans for PCBA redesign, supplier transfer, cost reductions, and various other support projects
• Developing detailed product design knowledge. This ongoing responsibility is required to provide timely production support and identify potential cost reduction opportunities
• Creating production yield analysis and implementing design improvements to maintain quality
• Participating in design reviews and design related brainstorming events
• Traveling to manufacture, supplier, and customer sites as needed
• Supporting activities within the global CPI Supply Chain Engineering team
  
  

Who We Are Looking For

CPI is committed to hiring a diverse workforce and empower our associates to promote new ideas and apply innovation to our world of payment technology solutions.

You consider yourself and excellent problem solver, with a passion for learning, and possess well demonstrated success in engineering leadership and project management.

Qualifications And Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering required
• 2-5 years of experience in electrical engineering and design
• Must have experience in the design and development of digital and analogue electronics principles and design
• Familiarity with design and biasing of bipolar transistors and MOSFETs in oscillator and closed loop opto control systems
• Able to specify suitable opamp / comparator for specific functions without ever over specifying with cost disadvantage
• Track record in power switching circuits including the specification of suitable power switches and flywheel diodes
• Familiarity with resonant circuits based on opamp and comparitor building blocks
• Some background in motor drive systems, perhaps in choice of brushless dc motors and drivers
• Good awareness of optical and electromagnetic sensors and their functionality
• General awareness of new technologies and their benefits
• Able to use schematic capture (Cadstar, Mentor Graphics)
• Able to demonstrate technical expertise and t4echnical delivery
• Able to develop and manage a sub-project within the broader constraints of the overall project plan
• Innovative and able to convert concepts into reality
• Practical application of electronics design relating to EMC theory
• Able to communicate, take part and contribute in technical discussions with other engineers and senior managers
• Experience with multidisciplinary design teams and awareness of tradeoffs between electrical hardware, software, and mechanical solution approaches
• Ability to perform and intercept tolerance analysis using worst case and statistical methods
• Must be able to work with diverse teams spanning multiple sites as well as be able to work independently
• Up to 10% travel
• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
  
  

Personal Attributes

• Action Oriented: You display a sense of urgency and are known for being a timely decision maker
• Analytical Thinker: You need to have insight and enjoy solving problems
• Team Player: You are approachable, and willing to follow, or lead based on the team's need and ability to interface with personnel from various departments and levels
• Organized: You assemble all necessary materials and information before starting a task
• Presentation Skills: You are confident when speaking to groups and presenting information
• Quality Written Communication: Your writing is concise and descriptive and you believe it is necessary to overcommunicate project status/updates
  
  

What We Are Offering

• Flexible work environments
• Defined career growth plans with opportunities to go outside of your "comfort zone"
• Team building activities that support innovation
• Generous paid time off plus sick and Holiday pay
• Medical, dental & vision insurance plans
• 401K with company contribution
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Discounts for childcare
• Tuition assistance
• Community involvement and volunteering events
• Opportunities to travel and work at global sites
  
  

Sound interesting? Come see why we are OneCPI!

CPI is a part of Crane NXT

CraneNXT is a premier industrial technology company that provides proprietary and trusted technology solutions to secure, detect, and authenticate what matters most to its customers. The company is a pioneer in advanced, proprietary micro-optics technology for securing physical products, and its sophisticated electronic equipment and associated software leverages proprietary core capabilities with detection and sensing technologies. CraneNXT has approximately 4000 employees with global operations and manufacturing facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, and Malta. For more information, visit www.cranenxt.com

Crane Payment Innovations is committed to hiring a diverse workforce. Applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, military status, or national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.

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