Principal Electrical Engineer
Softworld, a Kelly Company - New York City, NY
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Job Title: Principal Electrical Engineer - Analog/Digital/Power ElectronicsJob Location: Bohemia, NY 11716 (100% onsite)Onsite Requirements:Digital Design Analog DesignMixed Signal DesignJob Description:Seeking a Principal Analog/Mixed Signal Design Engineer experienced in developing devices with active/passive signal converter & conditioning circuits and switching power control/driver circuits, implemented in either multi-chip & wire hybrid, or SMT CCA form factors, to join our dynamic, growing organization as a valued member of the team.Key Position Accountabilities:Take primary technical leadership in the design, management, and support of Synchro / Resolver to Digital, and DATEL A2D & D2A mixed signal converter product lines.Lead switched-mode multi-phase Brushless DC Motor (BLDC) driver & controller product lines.Master analog/mixed signal analysis and design to meet demanding device specifications.Lead an interdisciplinary Engineering staff through the phases of product life cycle development from requirements, architecture, and detailed design, through to device verification, qualification, and transition to manufacturing production & support.Review obsolescence and redesign products to support military & aerospace customers when needed.Essential Duties:Develop clear requirements and specs from marketing/customer documents.Provide early customer interaction to guide requirements toward more realizable product.Distill large-scale designs down to their architectural elements and develop innovative analog and digital hardware design solutions.Consider & pursue patent applications for differentiators that will help secure a competitive advantage.Generate reports and present findings to the team throughout the review process.Facilitate DFM by coordinating teams of varied technical disciplines through a clearly defined design process and co-ordinate technical reviews with other groups.Develop creative approaches that favorably optimize complex design tradeoffs for product cost, performance, feature set, time to market, and technical risk.Anticipate potential difficulties and develop alternative plans.Manage support and verification activities (thermal, electrical stress, worst-case, FMEA, tolerance, aging, and EMI analyses, performance simulations, and design verification) to ensure meeting all environmental requirements for the application.Develop project plans, budgets, schedules, and identify resources to progress from market requirement through product release.Identify risks and develop contingency plans to mitigate schedule/technical threats to the program.Contribute technical input, as well as material and labor cost estimates in support of winning tactical business opportunities and proposals.Mentor, coach, and train engineers to facilitate greater levels of technical and professional achievement.Support legacy product lines and resolve new product issues as they arise.Work across departments to lead vendor or engineering outsource selection decisions based on technical performance, risk, and cost tradeoffs.Investigate and propose new methods, processes, techniques, tools, components, or technology improvements for quality, timeliness, and efficiency.Conduct in-depth technical interviews and make hiring recommendations for capable and talented technical staff to grow an effective Engineering team.Qualifications:Bachelors degree in electrical engineering; Graduate Engineering degree a plus.Deep bench of Analog Circuit design experience in multiple A to D architectures (multiple pass SAR, Flash, Sigma Delta, Pipeline) and D to A (serial DACs, R2R, current steering, charge scaling).Experience should cover low noise and high dynamic range techniques, sample acquisition and hold circuits, Bandgap reference, Oscillators, Op-amps, Switched Capacitor Circuits, Active Filters, single-ended & differential circuits, phase/frequency control loops and stability analysis.Comfort with working in both time & frequency domains.Experience in power electronics/power management (Buck/Boost, LDO, Charge Pump, Inverters using MOSFET, IGBT, SiC, and GaN Power devices).Analog/mixed signal ASIC design and verification using Cadence or Tanner tool suites.Experience with space-level radiation hardened design, rad lot testing, ionizing radiation, single event upset and total dose analysis regarding component selection.Sensors, including LVDT, Synchro/Resolvers and Encoders.Control theory and Matrix mathematics including Z domain transform for digital control, Experience with Motor control simulation.Clark and Park transform theory.High-level understanding of thermal, electrical stress, worst case, FMEA, tolerance, aging, and design for low EMI.Experience with CAD tools such as LT-Spice, P-Spice, OrCAD, Allegro, and Pantheon.Candidate must be a US Citizen, Permanent Resident, or Green Card Holder due to Export control laws.** This client is a US Federal Government contractor and is legally required to hire US Citizens. US Citizens will only be considered for this role. **
Created: 2025-03-02