Senior Hardware Engineer

Senior Electrical Engineer

We help our clients to increase their operational efficiencies and provide increased value for their customers. Your career here will help you develop into an electrically focused systems engineer who is part of a dynamic engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with our multidisciplinary teams of engineers to architect, design, document, implement, test, release, and deploy systems on high-speed mail processing equipment.
• Interface with internal/external clients to translate high-level application requirements into deployable solutions.
• Interface with OEM suppliers to identify and adapt various control system technologies for use on our systems.
• Plan and maintain project schedules, and ensure solutions meet all requirements and are delivered within specified timeframes and budget allocations.
• Support manufacturing and service personnel in complex troubleshooting. Some field support & travel required.
• Periodically manage and supervise aspects of electrical installations at client facilities, which may require domestic and international travel. Support other business unit requirements in maintaining products, which may require domestic travel.
• Collaborate within the development engineering group and support other groups within the company such as service and operations.

Requirements:

• 10-20+ years of experience in electrical engineering.
• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Computer Engineering or other electrical engineering discipline.
• Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering will be considered but not required.
• Demonstrates experience/knowledge with Board design, servo motors, FPGA design, and system-level integration of control system design and architecture.
• Demonstrates experience/knowledge in embedded controller design, embedded software (Assembly, Intel, C), and Microcontrollers/DSP (TI, Renesas, Atmel).
• Demonstrates experience/knowledge of embedded Analog/Digital design practices, board-level DC power design (DC/DC, AC/DC), and Computer interfacing (PCIe, USB, Serial).
• Demonstrates experience/knowledge of embedded servo drive design and implementation, closed-loop position control, specifically current control.
• Demonstrates experience/knowledge of harness and cabling design and system schematic layout in 2D CAD, able to specify connectors and properly size wiring.
• Familiarity with motion control techniques, low-level ethernet networking hardware, high-speed I/O design, barcode, RFID, OCR scanning systems, optics, and lensing for imaging system technologies is a plus.
• Demonstrates experience/knowledge of RCAD Schematic capture and board layout, as well as Mentor graphics capture and board layout a plus.
• OEM Motor and drive specification, analysis, and the ability to analyze servo motor characteristics using a dyno is a plus.
• Knowledge of both international and domestic machine safety standards (particularly EN60204, EN62368, and NFPA79 is a plus).
• Proven troubleshooting skills and the ability to resolve system interdisciplinary level problems, including mechanical and electrical issues under tight timeframes.
• Strong communicator - with the ability to effectively liaise with different teams and external suppliers in a friendly and approachable manner.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with diverse and distributed product teams with a hands-on, get-the-job-done attitude.
• A maximum of up to 2-3 weeks of domestic travel is required per year.