Acuity

Senior Electrical Engineer

Acuity

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Illinois

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Salary

💰 $88,300 - $158,900 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

IoTLinuxRTOS

About the role

  • Lead the electrical engineering design and development for lighting, lighting controls, and LED driver products and related technologies
  • Manage the technical aspects of outsourcing projects and sourcing initiatives, particularly with Asia-based finished goods suppliers
  • Perform hands-on design review, analysis, and troubleshooting of analog and mixed-signal systems
  • Design, model and test mixed-signal processor-based electronics
  • Write and review basic microcontroller firmware (FW); work with external and internal FW development teams to review and ensure code quality
  • Collaborate with our strategic sourcing and product management teams to identify the right solutions from our OEM vendor base
  • Qualify selected products through validation, interoperability testing, and other necessary design qualification processes to ensure they meet Acuity standards
  • Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements
  • Design and support products to relevant electrical code and testing laboratory standards; support UL / CSA testing and listing process for products
  • Develop and distribute engineering data in the form of Engineering Change Notices, Bills of Material and parts tracking
  • Work closely with vendors to establish and maintain strong working relationships, ensuring quality and timely delivery of components and finished goods
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product commercialization from concept to launch, ensuring alignment with project goals and timelines
  • Assist with project management tasks, including tracking progress, managing schedules, and ensuring project deliverables are met

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (EE), Computer Engineering (CE), or equivalent
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience
  • Proven experience in switch mode power supply design
  • Hands-on experience with analog and digital (mixed signal) system design, review, and analysis
  • Experience in modeling, p-spice simulation, circuit analysis, tolerance stack analysis, worst-case thermal analysis, MTBF, and product lifetime expectancy calculation
  • Understanding of the product commercialization and product development phase-gate process, from specification to mass production
  • Working understanding of embedded C firmware design, review, and testing practices in an Agile environment; able to accurately understand the status and drive progress in working with others from the internal FW team as needed
  • Able to develop ‘prototype quality’ C firmware for embedded devices and review the work of others
  • Experience with vendor management and fostering relationships with international suppliers, especially in Asia
  • Experience in engineering project management; demonstrated ability to take projects from start to finish with minimal supervision
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • A proactive, problem-solving mindset with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
  • Preferred: Experience in lighting or lighting controls industries or similar fields
  • Preferred: Relevant UL/CSA safety standards, and FCC part 15 certification knowledge
  • Preferred: Proficient in embedded FW development for bare metal, RTOS, or Linux-based projects
  • Preferred: Experience with wired networks and communication protocols (I2C, SPI, RS-485, Ethernet, etc.)
  • Preferred: Experience with industrial / IoT wireless networks and communication protocols (Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Bluetooth, BLE, Proprietary, etc.)
  • Preferred: Experience with high volume electronics manufacturing