What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Engineer I – IV position at Zepher Flight Labs?
Electronic Developer/Design Engineer
Typically this position would be filled by an engineer with a college degree or strong relevant experience. The position requires an ability to work in different areas in the world of electronics including schematic capture, PCB layout, assembly, debugging, limited programming, and supporting the teams electrical needs as they arise. The candidate should have all of the required skills and one or more of the preferred skills. The candidate must have a desire to learn the preferred skills while on the job.
Required skills:
- Motivated and enthusiastic with a positive attitude
- A self-starter with great time management skills
- Willingness to learn, try new things, and wear many hats
- Able to adapt to changing engineering standards
- Engineering / science degree, or equivalent experience
- Effective verbal communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- English fluency
- Legally able to work in the USA
Preferred skills (one or more):
- Embedded programming in C, C , and/or assembly (ARM Cortex-M3/M4, STM32, MSP430 using IAR / STCube / Code Composer Studio (eclipse-based IDE))
- PCB circuit design / schematic capture (e.g., Altium, Cadence OrCAD, DesignSpark, Eagle, Kicad, Protel, etc.)
- PCB layout (e.g., Altium, PADS (PowerPCB), Mentor Graphics, Cadence Allegro, Eagle, Kicad)
- Desktop / GUI programming (e.g., Visual Studio C#, python, LabWindows/CVI/LabView)
- Embedded web server development
- RC building / piloting (e.g., DJI, Pixhawk, ArduPilot, servos, ESCs)
- Experience with single-board computer development (e.g., Raspberry Pi, Arduino, BeagbleBone, Mbed)
- Assist in tool development for testing and system integration
- Revision control experience (e.g., Git, Subversion)
- Technical writing with skills in MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint (or Open Office equivalents)
- Soldering on PCB under microscope on surface mount packages down to 0402 sizes
- Building cables (solder cup, crimping)
- IoT / cloud platform development (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google)
- BS or higher in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or proof of exceptional skills in related fields, with practical experience
- Project management
- Computer builds, Windows 10, Linux, Ubuntu
Nice-to-have:
- Develop, enhance and debug new and existing real-time software in C and C in embedded Linux, RTOS, and “bare metal” environments (e.g., FreeRTOS, uCOS, embOS)
- Drive software development for performance, scalability, modularity, robustness, and tight integration with the hardware
- Network and system-level debugging and code optimization
- Implement continuous improvements and best practices within the team, and larger organization
- Drive software/hardware co-design for optimized solutions and schedules
- Experience with wired and wireless networking and developing software for networked IoT products
- Capable of delivering top-quality C and C code in multi-threaded and multi-process systems
- Electrical simulation (e.g., PSPICE, HSPICE, LTSPICE, SPICE, Genesys)
- Mathematical analysis and scripting (e.g., MATLAB, Octave)
- MCAD / 3D model development (e.g., SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Autodesk EAGLE, Fusion 360, Inventor, SketchUp)
- Reverse engineering experience (i.e., product teardowns)
