What are the responsibilities and job description for the Embedded Electrical Engineer position at Metrix?
Who We Are
Metrix is the preferred supplier of industrial condition monitoring systems to many of the world’s leading manufacturers and users of cooling towers, gas turbines, reciprocating compressors, and other rotating and reciprocating machinery. With headquarters in Houston, Texas, we operate in more than 40 countries via factory-direct sales and service professionals, along with a strategic network of instrumentation partners. We pioneered the concept of simple, affordable machinery protection with our seismic measurement technology. Initially focused on geophysical exploration, this technology also found abundant applications for vibration measurements on industrial machines and has been our focus for 50 years.
Your Role
You will join the Houston based Engineering team and support R&D and engineering projects. You will have the opportunity to perform a variety of engineering activities including debugging, designing, and testing of company produced products. Also, occasionally assist with in-house manufacturing / customer service training and project coordination. Position offers some hybrid remote flexibility.
- Design and develop new products.
- Provide technical support of products in current production.
- Design and test of electrical assemblies using ECAD tools and lab test equipment.
- Modify, revise, and prototype existing analog and embedded designs.
- Creation or modification of firmware in existing embedded designs.
- Creation of documentation associated with testing, debugging, and root cause analysis of faulty assemblies.
- Communication with customers, third-party project representatives, and other company departments to meet assigned project requirements and schedule.
- Provide data collection, input and data management for engineering studies, projects and compliance requirements.
- Provide technical analysis, troubleshooting and solutions under the direction of an engineer or supervisor.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (B.S.) from four-year college or university in Electrical Engineering
- Five-years’ relevant electrical engineering experience
Skills/Knowledge:
- Experience with Product Development
- Embedded systems experience is a must.
- Embedded systems knowledge: Basic HW/SW integration testing, hardware performance tuning, embedded debugger tools.
- Strong Programming skills in C or C derivative languages.
- Basic understanding of IDE toolchain (compiler, linker, assembler and loader).
- Knowledge of serial communications protocol (RS485, CAN bus, SPI, I2C, UART).
- Microprocessors: Ability to read and interpret component datasheets and manufacturer application notes.
- Ability to write structured and maintainable source code at both high- (architectural) and low- (driver) levels.
- Understanding of manufacturer coding frameworks (e.g. CMSIS, ASF, etc)
- Understanding of in-circuit debuggers.
- Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics.
- Ability to build test jigs (circuit design, proto-board soldering)
- Ability to interface with transducers (aka signal conditioning).
- Familiarity with source version control.
- Have analytical skills to recognize patterns in data
- Ability to produce and present test results in a clean and concise manner.
- Ability to use standard electrical test equipment (Power supplies, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, function generators and impedance analyzers)
- Ability to efficiently use all Microsoft Office products.
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We offer a generous compensation package that offers:
- Competitive salary
- 401(k) contribution with immediate 100% vesting in all company matching contribution
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Health Savings Accounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Educational Reimbursement
- Competitive paid time off program
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