Switch4 LLC
Title: Specialist Electrical Engineer
Location: Northampton, MA
Job Type: FTE/Permanent
Schedule: 9/80
Job Description:
Design and development of electrical/electronic design, starting from concept and advancing maturity for implementation into finished working designs. Manages project initiatives of importance to the organization with general oversight and direction. Communicates within and outside of the organization to explain and influence changes to practices, processes, and approaches. Makes improvements in processes, systems, or products.
Essential Functions:
Location: Northampton, MA
Job Type: FTE/Permanent
Schedule: 9/80
Job Description:
Design and development of electrical/electronic design, starting from concept and advancing maturity for implementation into finished working designs. Manages project initiatives of importance to the organization with general oversight and direction. Communicates within and outside of the organization to explain and influence changes to practices, processes, and approaches. Makes improvements in processes, systems, or products.
Essential Functions:
- Design and develop electrical/electronic design concepts and implement concepts into finished working designs. Work from specification requirements, design concepts, and inputs from customer and other engineers involving multidisciplinary activities.
- Lead and support the assembly and integration of products/systems containing microwave components or subsystems, leveraging extensive troubleshooting experience.
- Synthesize and define RF system designs for complex electro-optical solutions.
- Coordinate system-level requirements internally and among subcontractors and suppliers.
- Design and develop microwave components, circuits, and subsystems for multidisciplinary product applications.
- Develop test procedures and specify test equipment (including Vector Network Analyzers, Noise Figure Analyzers, and Spectrum Analyzers) and provide technical assistance to technical specialists or test personnel during testing of prototype and production hardware.
- Identify and execute continuous improvement plans for the EE team.
- Develop estimates to complete work, in terms of both engineering hours and schedule duration.
- Conduct or coordinate system cascade analyses, trade studies, and complex design risk trade-off analyses.
- Coordinate and lead design reviews of new or existing designs. Prepare/present complex internal and external design reviews.
- Capable of providing technical supervision and training/mentoring to lower-level engineers.
- Support production floor for system integration and test.
- Manage projects/processes with general supervision and regularly communicate with other engineering disciplines.
- Develop production documentation and manage the configuration process (official release, redlines, configuration control meetings, etc.).
- Capable of performing design analysis and establishing circuit-level tests to validate designs including thermal effects and contributions of tolerance.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and minimum 4 years of relevant experience. Graduate degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
- 2+ years of experience designing and developing microwave components, circuits, and subsystems for multidisciplinary product applications.
- Familiarity with MS Office products.
- Mixed signal Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) design and development experience, preferably with Mentor Graphics tools.