What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Electrical Engineer position at Michael Page?
In this role, you will be responsible for supporting the Power Business Unit Team in designing, maintaining, and validating the client's industry-leading portfolio of Power Distribution, Power Generation and Motor Control products. Your expertise will be vital in providing technical support to customers, developing new product ideas, supporting product roadmaps and working with the Business Unit Team and Engineering Teams in responding to customer proposals.
Client Details
Our Client is an internationally recognized organization, providing high-reliability, connectivity, power and control solutions for various industries in Aerospace, Defense and Space.
Description
- Develop clear requirements and specs from marketing / customer documents.
- Provide early customer interaction to guide requirements toward more realizable product.
- Distill large-scale designs down to their architectural elements, and develop unique, innovative analog and digital hardware design solutions. Consider & pursue patent application for differentiators that will help secure competitive advantage.
- Generate reports and present findings to the team throughout the review process. Facilitate DFM by coordinating teams of varied technical disciplines through a clearly defined design process. Co-ordinate technical reviews with other groups.
- Develop creative approaches that favorably optimize complex design tradeoffs for product cost, performance, feature set, time to market, and technical risk. Anticipate potential difficulties and develop alternative plans.
- Manage support and verification activities (thermal, electrical stress, worst-case, FMEA, tolerance, aging, and EMI analyses, performance simulations, and design verification) to ensure meeting all environmental requirements for the application.
- Develop project plans, budgets, schedules, and identify the resources to progress from market requirement through product release. Identify risks and develop contingency plans to mitigate schedule / technical threats to the program.
- Contribute technical input, as well as material and labor cost estimates in support of winning tactical business opportunities and proposals.
- Mentor, coach, and train engineers to facilitate greater levels of technical and professional achievement.
- Support legacy product lines and resolve new product issues as they arise.
- Work across departments to lead vendor or engineering outsource selection decisions based on technical performance, risk and cost tradeoffs.
- Take the initiative to investigate and propose new method, process, technique, tool, component, or technology improvements for quality, timeliness, and efficiency.
- Conduct in-depth technical interviews and make hiring recommendations for capable and talented technical staff to grow an effective Engineering team.
Profile
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
- Deep bench of Analog Circuit design experience in multiple A to D architectures (multiple pass SAR, Flash, Sigma Delta, Pipeline) and D to A (serial DACs, R2R, current steering, charge scaling). Experience should cover low noise and high dynamic range techniques, sample acquisition and hold circuits, Bandgap reference, Oscillators, Op-amps, Switched Capacitor Circuits, Active Filters, single ended & differential circuits, phase / frequency control loops and stability analysis. Comfort with working in both time & frequency domains.
- Experience in power electronics / power management (Buck/Boost, LDO, Charge Pump, Inverters using MOSFET, IGBT, SiC and GaN Power devices.
- Analog / mixed signal ASIC design and verification using Cadence or Tanner tool suites.
- Experience with space-level radiation hardened design, rad lot testing, ionizing radiation, single event upset and total dose analysis regarding component selection.
- Sensors, including LVDT, Synchro / Resolvers and Encoders.
- Control theory and Matrix mathematics including Z domain transform for digital control; Experience with Motor control simulation
- Clark and Park transform theory
- High level understanding of thermal, electrical stress, worst case, FMEA, tolerance, aging, and design for low EMI.
- Experience with CAD tools such as LT-Spice, P-Spice, OrCAD, Allegro and Pantheon.
- Candidate must be a US Citizen, Permanent Resident or Green Card Holder due to Export control laws.
Job Offer
- Salary: $120,000 - $180,000
- People-Focused Policies
- Career Development
- Medical/Dental/Vision Coverage
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Relocation Assistance Available
MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.
Salary : $120,000 - $180,000
