Sr. Principal Electrical Design Engineer

Swagelok Company•Solon, OH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Principal Electrical Design Engineer is responsible for assessing, defining, and implementing Swagelok electronic design and architecture standards and leading product design/definition of new and existing products. This person is a thought-leader in software and electronics design, and responsible for gathering requirements, generating specifications, and ensuring that new solutions meet process and performance requirements. A broad knowledge of system architecture, software architecture, software/firmware development, embedded systems, and hardware architecture is required. This person is an informal leader responsible for mentoring team members and verifying their work on complex engineering projects.

Requirements

BS degree in Engineering
Appropriate continuous education
10+ years of experience in system architecture, software architecture, hardware architecture, or similar field
Excellent oral and written communication
Excellent computer and typical office software skills

Nice To Haves

Degree in Electrical, Computer, Software, or similar engineering field
Embedded System Design Experience
System Architecture Experience
Agile Project Management Experience

Responsibilities

Applies Engineering Principles and design practices to ensure product meets internal and industry standards.
Key contributor to the development of the corporate software and electrical product design methodology.
Understands software and hardware development cost implications and performs budgetary cost analysis of concepts to be developed by internal and external resources.
Develops detailed system requirements for quote and development by 3rd party vendors or internal development.
Manage 3rd party hardware and software development vendor technical relationships.
Plans and leads sprint-based development with internal and external resources. (Agile Project Management)
Understands and translates the needs of customer requirements and application needs into documentation of system requirements, including hardware design, component specification, hardware layout, firmware/software architecture. Leads test design, system evaluation and acceptance testing.
Deliver technical documentation and presentations. Ensure “as-built” changes are effectively documented through the change management system.
Coordinate electrical design team work (hardware and software) with mechanical design activities to achieve a final product that meets customer requirements.
Apply engineering theory, practices, and principles to perform failure analysis to determine root cause of failures and conduct performance evaluations.
Collaborate with operators, manufacturing engineers, production supervisors, engineering technicians, and maintenance technicians as needed.
Provide guidance and assist in development of Swagelok capabilities in design of electronics and electronic products using internal and external resources. Mentor less-experienced peers and team members.