Electrical Design Engineer - Dallas, United States - McKenzie Recruiting

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    Position Summary The Electrical design engineer will be responsible for designing digital and mixed-signal control and monitoring circuitry, PCB design and layout, and FPGA code development for state-of-the-art DC and AC power frequency converters.

    This position will coordinate design, specifications, and requirements for industrial electronic products as part of a greater cross-functional team within the Design Engineering group.

    The frequency converter products range from 3.5 to 250kVA with output voltages of DC or 3-phase AC ranging from 40 to 800 Hz.

    Principal Duties and Areas of Responsibility

    • Design, development, test and evaluation of digital and mixed signal circuits for high-power industrial frequency/power converters
    • Requirements capture and definition, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout, analysis, simulation, verification, testing, design review preparation and participation
    • Analyze appropriate industry and military specifications to ensure product compliance
    • Participate in systems integration, debug and test at the product level
    • Work closely with software engineers to enable them to develop operating software and firmware for the board designs
    • Work closely with electrical engineers to integrate the control and monitoring circuitry with the power circuitry
    • Write and release board documentation including engineering drawings, schematics, bills of materials, and Gerber files
    • Stay up to date with the latest devices, technologies, and design techniques
    • Provide technical and schedule updates to management Education and Experience Requirements
    • A degree in Electronic/Electrical engineering or equivalent with at least 3 years of experience in circuit design
    • Experience in designs involving power conversion preferred
    • Experience in board level designs that include FPGA, CPLD, DSP, and micro-controllers
    • Proven design skills in product development environment
    • Ability to read, interpret, understand, and comply with military, product, customer, and industry specifications
    • Experience with PCB Layout software, OrCAD and/or PADS preferred
    • Knowledge of PCB manufacturing processes and design rules
    • Experience with component level modeling for SPICE and PSIM simulation software
    • Knowledge of computer programming languages, C/C++ preferred
    • Ability to meet schedule milestones
    • Attention to detail when writing and releasing documentation
    • Work independently and as part of a team

    Interpersonal skills:
    ability to collaborate between groups

    • Take personal responsibility for complicated design/development and take the project to completionPhysical Requirements Must be able to climb stairs, sit, keyboard, see, hear and read/speak English fluently EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability