Distinguished Engineer

Summary

The Distinguished Electrical Engineer designs, develops, and leads the architecture for complex electrical components and equipment solutions, with a focus on miniaturized wearable RF electronic devices. This role requires deep expertise in analog/digital design, RF engineering, and antenna design. Responsibilities include the fabrication, operation, application, installation, and repair of electrical components in electronic products. As a technical leader and subject matter expert, this engineer sets standards, guidelines, and frameworks for electrical engineering, promotes innovation, and provides engineering support for existing products, including root cause analysis, problem-solving, and optimization to enhance reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• The Distinguished Electrical Engineer designs and develops miniaturized wearable RF electronic devices, leading RF and antenna design while applying expertise in analog/digital circuit design.
• Researches, architects, and implements new technologies and components that enhance performance, improve reliability, and reduce costs.
• The Distinguished Electrical Engineer works closely with cross-functional teams including manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and external vendors to ensure high-quality product development and mass production readiness.
• Provides technical solutions for component selection, schematic design, PCB layout, functional testing, user testing, and design for manufacturing (DFM).
• The Distinguished Electrical Engineer supports new product introduction (NPI), including vendor sourcing, approvals, and cost analysis, while ensuring compliance with quality criteria.
• Leads root cause analysis and develops engineering solutions for sustaining product performance and manufacturability.
• The Distinguished Electrical Engineer recommends design changes to enhance quality, manufacturability, and ease of assembly.
• Utilizes CAD tools for schematic and layout design, simulation, and testing.
• The Distinguished Electrical Engineer provides leadership in problem-solving, life cycle planning, and failure analysis, ensuring continuous product improvement.
• Supports quality assurance efforts, including the development of testing methods, reliability evaluations, and inspection standards. The Distinguished Electrical Engineer serves as a mentor to electrical engineers, offering guidance on product design and engineering best practices.
• Delivers succinct and professional project updates to management on an ongoing basis.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related field.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of experience in product design and development of electronic products.
• Extensive experience in RF engineering and antenna design, with a strong background in designing antennas for miniaturized wearable electronic devices (including cellular, GNSS, and Bluetooth devices).
• Experience developing miniature body-worn IoT devices.
• Hands-on experience with low-power, battery-operated, wireless consumer devices.
• Strong knowledge of flex, rigid, and rigid-flex PCB designs.
• Expertise in component selection, schematic design, miniaturized PCB layout, functional testing, and design for manufacturing (DFM).
• Experience transferring products from engineering to automated mass production.
• Understanding of product development processes for mass volume production, with a focus on DFM and design for test (DFT).
• Experience in Cellular IoT design and LTE Cat M preferred.
• In-depth working knowledge of:
• Radio frequency development
• Logic/microprocessor circuit design
• Digital and analog circuit design and development
• Telecommunications network design
• Proficiency in CAD software (Altium and Allegro preferred).
• Ability to manage multiple ongoing projects, identify technical constraints, and develop innovative solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to mentor electrical engineers.
• Working knowledge of project management techniques and practices.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences • Proficiency in using computers and department-specific software.
• Working Conditions: Encountered on a regular basis as part of the work this job performs.
• Typical office environment.
• Laboratory environment that requires use of equipment such as thermal chambers, cycle testers and equipment fans.
• Close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus to visually inspect test parts, circuit board assemblies, solder surface mount electronic components, read color-codes on electronic components.