Senior Hardware Engineer

Actalent - Winona, MN

Full-time - Mid Level

Winona, MN

10,001+ employees

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

As a Senior Electrical Engineer at Actalent, you will leverage your technical expertise in electronics to design and sustain electronic products. This role involves addressing component-related issues, guiding testing and debugging processes, and ensuring compliance with industry standards while focusing on cost efficiency and value engineering.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise for component related issues including alternate component selection for obsolescence issues, and assisting on process issues.
• Guide technicians with the testing and debug of products.
• Experience with design for EMI/EMC.
• Provide technical reports and communications to team members.
• Able to redesign the PCBA components considering value engineering.
• Familiarity with PCBA components and market commodities to identify standard parts and assess material suitability.
• Cost down for the materials.

Requirements

• Four year degree in electrical/electronic engineering or demonstrated equivalent experience and minimum of 6 years experience related to electronics design at the PCB level.
• Ability to understand PCB component level schematics.
• Ability to use standard test equipment such as multimeters and oscilloscopes to logically troubleshoot PCBs to the component level.
• Understanding of application and critical characteristics of typical electronics components including resistors, capacitors, diodes, inductors, digital logic microcontrollers and processors, linear and switching regulators, ADCs, etc.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Embedded systems hardware design experience.
• Demonstrated strong communication and problem solving skills.
• Experience in automotive type electronics.