Allied Motion Technologies, Inc.

Senior Electrical Engineer

Allied Motion Technologies, Inc. • $110K — $130K *
Rochester, NY 14609In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • 10+ years' experience in embedded electronics development
  • Demonstrated ownership of complex embedded systems
  • Expert-level experience with mixed-signal circuits and electronics architecture
  • Proficient in circuit design, modeling, and schematic capture (Altium)
  • Strong PCB layout and design for manufacturing experience
  • Hands-on experience with debugging embedded electronics

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, and develop embedded motion control hardware
  • Implement and optimize embedded electronics for motion control and industrial automation
  • Own the electrical architecture across multiple domains
  • Conduct circuit design and tradeoff analysis
  • Support hardware integration and manufacturing readiness
  • Lead board bring-up, debugging, and validation
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers

Benefits

  • Mentorship opportunities for junior engineers
  • Engagement in full product lifecycle from architecture to maintenance
  • Collaborative environment across teams including software and QA
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies in power electronics and motion control
  • Role autonomy and leadership in complex projects
Full Job Description
The Senior Electrical Engineer researches, designs, and develops embedded electronics and motion control systems in collaboration with software product development. This role combines deep technical leadership, product ownership, and hands-on electronics hardware development, leading the architecture and implementation of complex embedded motion control systems. The role requires a high degree of independence and leadership in complex projects, including management of the full electronics hardware development lifecycle, contribution to technology strategy, on-time delivery, mentorship of junior engineers, and serving as a technical and/or product leader for assigned product lines. Apply now!

Responsibilities:
  • Architect, Design, and Develop Embedded Motion Control Hardware
  • Design, implement, and optimize embedded electronics hardware for motion control, servo drives, power electronics, motor control, and industrial automation systems.
  • Own electrical system architecture spanning power conversion, analog, digital, sensing, communications, and mixed-signal domains.
  • Perform component selection, circuit design, tradeoff analysis, and schematic development.
  • Contribute to hardware platform strategy, subsystem definition, and product architecture decisions.
  • Support PCB implementation, layout collaboration, stack-up design, grounding, thermal, DFM/DFT, and hardware integration activities.
  • Translate product requirements into robust, manufacturable, and scalable electrical designs and low level engineering specifications.
  • Lead Hardware Bring-Up, Debugging, and Validation
  • Lead board bring-up, electrical debugging, characterization, and root cause investigation from prototype through production release.
  • Troubleshoot electrical, mixed-signal, and power electronics issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power instrumentation, and engineering diagnostic methods.
  • Analyze switching behavior, efficiency, thermal performance, EMI/EMC, grounding, and signal integrity.
  • Develop and execute validation, verification, and hardware characterization activities.
  • Drive technical issues from initial symptom through corrective action and validated resolution.
  • Support Product Development, Integration, and Manufacturing Readiness
  • Support hardware/firmware integration, system-level debugging, and motion control system development across the product lifecycle.
  • Support design verification, validation, EMC/EMI, safety, regulatory, and agency compliance activities, ensuring adherence to hardware development best practices and industry standards.
  • Support transition from prototype through manufacturing release, production readiness, and sustaining activities, including investigation of manufacturing, field, and customer-reported technical issues.
  • Manage projects independently, adapting to complexity and scale while collaborating across teams to align electrical development activities with product objectives and organizational goals.
  • Provide Technical Leadership & Strategy: Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers. Contribute to technology roadmaps and strategic planning for electronics development.
  • Lead and actively participate in all phases of the product lifecycle-architecture, implementation, review, documentation, testing, release, and long-term maintenance.
  • Support coordination across teams, including software/firmware, QA, and product management.
  • As a Technical Leader, provide technical direction, work coordination, mentoring, and oversight for contributing engineers on assigned projects, products, or initiatives (as assigned).
  • As a Product Leader, take ownership of a specific product line's hardware development, documentation, testing, maintenance, quality, and support (as assigned).

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
  • 10+ years of professional experience in embedded electronics development.
  • Demonstrated ownership of complex embedded systems or product architectures in production environments.
  • Expert-level experience with electronics architecture, power, analog, digital, and mixed signal circuits.
  • Expert-level proficiency in detailed circuit design, modeling, analysis, and schematic capture (Altium).
  • Expert-level proficiency with electronic test and measurement equipment.
  • Strong experience with PCB layout and board-level design practices (PCB stack-up, thermal management, grounding, noise mitigation, signal integrity, and design for EMC/EMI compliance).
  • Strong experience in hands-on bring-up, test, and debugging of embedded electronics and power stages.
  • Knowledge of, or demonstrated ability to rapidly learn and apply key technologies including power conversion (SiC, GaN, MOSFET, IGBT), BLDC / PMSM motor systems, DC / DC conversion, inverter stages, signal conditioning, feedback devices (EnDat, BiSS, SSI, hall sensors), EtherCAT, CAN.
  • Experience supporting EMC/EMI, safety, validation, or agency compliance activities (UL / CE).
  • Must be a U.S. person due to ITAR regulations.


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About Allied Motion Technologies, Inc.

Allied Motion Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells precision and specialty motion control components and systems used in a broad range of industries within the motion control market. The Company's products are used to control motion in applications ranging from medical instruments, robotics and office automation equipment to aerospace and defense, and industrial automation. Its products include brush and brushless DC motors, brushless servo and torque motors, coreless DC motors, integrated brushless motor-drives, gear motors, gearing, modular digital servo drives, motion controllers, incremental and absolute optical encoders, active (electronic) and passive (magnetic) filters for electronic noise suppression and power quality, and other associated motion control-related products. The Company's products are used in a range of applications, including vehicle, medical, aerospace and defense, electronics and industrial.
Learn more about Allied Motion Technologies, Inc.
Size
1,950 employees
Market Cap
$538 million
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$13.6 million
Founded
1962
5 Year Trend
+10.4%
Revenue
$366.6 million
NASDAQ
AMOT
* Ladders Estimates

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