Electrical Engineer

Burke Porter, an Ascential Technologies Brand•San Diego, CA

3d•$110,000 - $140,000•Onsite

About The Position

Designs, develops, modifies, and evaluates electronic systems, PCBA's, parts, components, or integrated circuitry for electronic equipment, or other hardware systems and electrical engineering applications. Determines design approaches and parameters, analyzes equipment to establish operating data, conducts experimental tests, and evaluates results. Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability, and may participate in the assessment of vendor capability to support product development.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 2–5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 0–2+ years of experience.
Experience with analog and digital circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout, hardware bring-up, and system-level debugging.
Familiarity with common embedded interfaces and communication protocols such as SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, USB, Ethernet, and wireless (drop in modules) technologies.
Comfortable with direct client interaction, including presentation of technical designs.
Experience with testing and troubleshooting of PCBA designs using common test equipment.
Experience with cable design and documentation.
Knowledge of regulatory processes and requirements, including creating designs compliant with common FCC, UL, CSA, and EU regulatory requirements.
Experience with integrating sensors, motor controls, power electronics, and embedded peripherals.
Experience developing embedded systems using C/C++ on microcontrollers and RTOS-based platforms.
Working knowledge of software development tools and practices including Git, debugging tools, automated testing, and version control workflows.

Nice To Haves

Experience with the Altium Designer tool.
Familiarity with embedded Linux, Python, C#, or development of engineering and test tools.
Experience with AI-assisted engineering, software development, or test automation tools.
Exposure to FPGA development, VHDL, or Verilog.
Experience with design methods and requirements for medical devices including ISO13485, IEC60601.

Responsibilities

Designs, develops, modifies, and evaluates electronic systems, PCBA's, parts, components, or integrated circuitry for electronic equipment, or other hardware systems and electrical engineering applications.
Determines design approaches and parameters.
Analyzes equipment to establish operating data.
Conducts experimental tests and evaluates results.
Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability.
May participate in the assessment of vendor capability to support product development.
Direct client interaction, including presentation of technical designs.
Testing and troubleshooting of PCBA designs using common test equipment.
Cable design and documentation.
Creating designs compliant with common FCC, UL, CSA, and EU regulatory requirements.
Integrating sensors, motor controls, power electronics, and embedded peripherals.
Developing embedded systems using C/C++ on microcontrollers and RTOS-based platforms.
Software development tools and practices including Git, debugging tools, automated testing, and version control workflows.
Design methods and requirements for medical devices including ISO13485, IEC60601.