Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or 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.
Strong experience with PCB layout and board-level design practices.
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and optimize embedded electronics hardware for motion control and automation systems.
Own electrical system architecture across various domains including power conversion and communications.
Lead board bring-up, electrical debugging, and validation from prototype to production.
Support hardware/firmware integration and system-level debugging throughout the product lifecycle.
Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers.
Benefits
Opportunity for technical leadership and mentorship.
Engagement in complex projects with significant independence.
Collaboration across teams including software and product management.
Involvement in strategic planning for electronics development.
Full Job Description
Summary:
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.
Responsibilities:
Architect, Design, and Develop Embedded Motion Control Hardware:
Design, implement, andoptimizeembeddedelectronicshardware 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.
Performcomponentselection, 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 designsand 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,logicanalyzers, 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 frominitialsymptomthrough 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 lines hardware development, documentation, testing, maintenance, quality, and support(as assigned).
Qualifications:
Education & Experience:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
10+ years of professional experience in embedded electronics development.
Demonstrated ownership of complex embedded systems or product architectures in production environments.
Technical Skills Required:
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 debuggingof embedded electronics and power stages.
Knowledge of, ordemonstrated ability to rapidly learnand applykey technologiesincludingpowerconversion(SiC,GaN, MOSFET, IGBT),BLDC/ PMSM motor systems, DC / DC conversion, inverter stages, signal conditioning, feedback devices (EnDat, BiSS, SSI,hallsensors),EtherCAT, CAN.
Experience with embedded software, C/C++,control system integration, or other coding experience.
Exposure to Linux and Unix.
Experience using MATLAB Simulink for modeling and analysis
Experience with FPGA or other programmable logic
Experience with hardware-in-the-loop test fixture development.
Additional Required Competencies:
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Ability to work independently and lead projects effectively.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Commitment to quality, efficiency, and innovation.
Experience in cross-functional team collaboration.
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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.
