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Electrical Engineer

AMETEK
4 days ago
Full-time
On-site
United States

AMETEK PDS is seeking an energetic, innovative, electrical engineer to join our exceptional and growing engineering team.  We design advanced, high-reliability, aircraft power distribution systems.  While we are laser focused on quality and reliability, we strive to maintain a culture that promotes creativity, innovation, comradery, and fun!

 

Responsibilities:

  • Provides design leadership, coaching, and support in the effective use of engineering practices to analyze, specify, design, document, and test products
  • Performs detailed electronic design, troubleshooting, validation, and qualification of power, analog, and digital circuits including microprocessor and EPLD-based systems design
  • Utilizing digital skills to produce the required Built-In-Testing coverage and achieve the data rates and responsiveness required to interrupt faults and report information to the cockpit
  • Regularly interface with other engineering disciplines, both local and remote, to perform development and design validation activities
  • Supports manufacturing activities during prototype builds, executing startup and DVT testing of new designs, and the completion of detailed FTA and FMECA analysis.
  • Provides technical product support and troubleshooting as necessary to manufacturing, customers and end users
  • Leverages knowledge of aircraft electrical system concepts and aerospace industry standards to develop system architectures
  • Researches, recommends, and develops technologies, processes, and methods to meet both customer and AMETEK goals
  • Analyzes and decomposes customer requirements into design requirements while ensuring compliance with safety, redundance, and reliability requirements
  • Responsible for the high-level coordination of cross-functional engineering teams during all phases of system integration testing
  • Prepares technical proposals and cost estimates

 

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
  • Minimum of 5-10yrs of relevant engineering design work experience
  • Experience designing analog, digital, microprocessor, and high-power AC/DC circuits
  • A track record of on-time delivery of project milestones
  • Ability to produce accurate, detailed electronic schematics
  • Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, dataloggers, analyzers, programmable waveform generators, power supplies, and programmable loads
  • Ability to write technical requirements
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Positive, can-do attitude
  • Great communication and documentation skills

 

Preferred Skills and Experience:

  • Airborne electronic hardware development experience using DO-160 and DO-254.
  • Experience with one or more of the following:  I2C, SPI, RS485, CANBus, ARINC 429
  • Schematic capture using Altium
  • Some programming experience preferred. (C, C++, C#, Python, Visual Basic, or other)
  • Requirements capture using DOORS
  • Familiarity with ARP-4754A