Senior Electrical Engineer
Acuity
Flux
Lead Electrical Engineer
Acuity
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Decatur • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $104,200 - $187,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Create and sustain next-generation, energy-efficient, intelligent, wired and wireless lighting control systems for commercial and industrial applications
- Design, model, and test mixed-signal processor-based electronics; design and source PCBs; specify and source electronic components; and specify and manage firmware
- Collaborate with firmware engineers to optimize system-level integration and performance
- Evaluate existing and emerging technologies to identify reliable solutions for various installed environments
- Evaluate Intellectual Property (IP) landscape to identify risks and opportunities for new IP
- Design and support products according to relevant electrical code and laboratory standards; support UL / CSA testing and listing process
- Design and support wireless communication products that comply with FCC Part 15 and manage submissions for compliance testing
- Work closely with manufacturing to ensure designs meet manufacturability and testing criteria and sustain products in manufacturing
- Develop and distribute engineering data: Engineering Change Notices, Bills of Material, and parts tracking
- Perform system integration and validation testing, including interoperability verification with customer-supplied peripherals
- Provide sustaining engineering support and mentor junior team members
- Actively contribute to design reviews, communicate design/component constraints and trade-offs, and drive fast design decisions that support business strategy
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering required
- 7+ years of experience specific to analog and digital low voltage circuit design, PCB design, and layout
- Ideally experienced using Altium
- Expertise in AC-DC, DC-DC power supplies, power electronics, and AC circuit protection
- Expertise in designing wireless products that comply with FCC Part 15 certifications
- Experience in modeling, P-Spice simulation, circuit analysis, thermal analysis, MTBF, and product lifetime expectancy calculation
- Experience with communication and networking protocols (I2C, SPI, RS-485, Ethernet, etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to devise novel technical solutions and lateral thinking
- Willingness to challenge existing practice (technical, testing, manufacturing)
- Strong project management skills and ability to take projects from start to finish with minimal supervision
- Experience creating product test plans with a hands-on approach
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience mentoring junior team members
- Demonstrated experience and understanding of firmware
- Experience with wireless communication protocols (Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Bluetooth, BLE, Proprietary, etc.)
Benefits
- health care
- dental coverage
- vision plans
- 401K benefits
- commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role
- For a list of our benefits, click here
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
analog circuit designdigital circuit designPCB designAC-DC power suppliesDC-DC power suppliespower electronicscircuit analysisP-Spice simulationthermal analysisfirmware development
Soft skills
project managementcommunication skillsmentoringproblem-solvinglateral thinkingcollaborationdesign reviewdecision makingcreativityadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor’s Degree in Computer EngineeringFCC Part 15 compliance