Electrical Engineer

Role Overview

The Electrical Engineer is responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining electronic solutions for medical mobility devices from prototyping to production, ensuring compliance with safety standards, managing engineering documentation, and optimizing product designs for manufacturability and cost-effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Circuit board and circuit board programming
• Develop and maintain electronics for medical devices including definition, documentation, prototyping, testing and debugging, qualification, and release to production of reliable and cost effective electronic solutions
• Evaluate and optimize product concepts for function, manufacturability, packaging and material handling
• Generate product prototypes, perform product testing and ensure products function properly, meet specifications, and timing objectives
• Develop and evaluate cost analysis for new and modified product concepts from design through production launch
• Work on special projects such as evaluating competitive product, new processes and technologies
• Provide technical support in solving electronic product quality problems with existing products
• Improve the electronics development process to guarantee quality, improve time-to-market and increase efficiency
• Meet electrical safety compliance requirements (FDA, CE, UL, NEC, FCC and others) and coordinate product compliance testing
• Work on selection and standardization of key components
• Manage resources that maintain engineering documentation such as bills of material, procedures and other engineering documentation in DCD
• Design areas include supplies, batteries, printed circuit boards, embedded systems, AC and DC motors, ESD and EMI suppression, and other analog and digital circuit design
• Help choose which electronics activities should be built-up internally and which can be subcontracted
• Manage internal testing resources and ensure the quality of testing and reporting
• Evaluate electrical systems, products, components, and applications by designing and conducting research programs
• Confirm system and component capabilities by designing testing methods and testing properties
• Maintain product database by writing computer programs and entering data

Requirements

• History of working independently and as a member of a team under time and resource constraints
• Strong planning/organizational skills with demonstrated ability to manage projects, multi-task and set priorities
• Strong technical problem solving skills and ability to develop solutions for a smooth workflow in a fast paced product development environment
• Effective interpersonal skills, especially communications
• Ability to specify, evaluate and select appropriate electrical/electronic components
• Experience working in a design team interfacing with customers, suppliers, and technical resources outside the company
• Familiarity with firmware/hardware interactions and compliance issues
• 4-5 years experience working in an electrical engineering role
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering required