Job Title: Electrical Engineer
Job Description
Electrical Engineer provides broad ownership and technical leadership across electrical design, compliance strategy, and hands-on implementation.
Responsibilities
- Act as a core team member in the development of compliant products for global markets.
- Lead architectural direction while remaining actively engaged in hands-on circuit design, prototyping, and validation.
- Generate schematic design, PCB layout design, Bills-Of-Materials, and other documentation to provide a complete electronic design description.
- Execute and manage internal product testing, evaluating products for compliance design criteria and communicating with 3rd party test laboratories.
- Own projects end-to-end and drive engineering solutions with minimal oversight.
- Conduct product validation and verification testing to ensure products meet required standards (FCC, CE, CSA, UL/cUL, ATEX) and revise designs as needed.
- Perform design cost optimization and part library maintenance.
- Exhibit in-depth knowledge of PCB layout design, multi-layer stack-up (including flex and flex-rigid), component footprint creation, and fabrication process.
- Use design constraints to develop a robust design, including techniques of DFM, DFA, and DFT, methods of ESD mitigation, and requirements for compliance with EMI/EMC and safety testing.
- Design production test fixtures and processes that interface with the product.
- Conduct analysis to find the root cause of hardware or low-level software design issues in existing or new products and generate detailed reports to document the findings and resolutions.
Essential Skills
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of electrical engineering experience.
- Experience with compliance standards for hazardous locations, CE, UL508A preferred.
- Experience with RF module design and compliance testing preferred.
- Hands-on experience with engineering tools: multi-meter, spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, JTAG debuggers, logic analyzer, RF power meter, signal generator, load tester, data logger.
- Hands-on experience with microcontrollers, including 8051 or ARM X architecture.
- Proficiency with interfaces such as I2C, SPI, USB, SDRAM/FLASH, JTAG, RS-232, RS-485, CAN, Modbus, Ethernet, LVDS, GPIO.
- Development experience with wireless design using NBIoT / LTE modem, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth.
- Design experience with ESD, EMI and EMC consideration, signal integrity analysis and circuit simulation.
- Hands-on experience with IoT system design.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Proficiency with Altium for PCB design.
- Experience in analog and digital electronics.
- Ability to support both new product development and legacy products.
Work Environment
This role is fully in-office, located in a new facility in Lenexa, KS. The team offers flexibility for start and end times based on individual needs.
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of Overland Park, KS.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $100000.00 - $125000.00/yr.
Health, Vision, Dental, 401K, PTO, Holiday Pay.
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Overland Park,KS.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Apr 30, 2026.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I is embedded into our culture through:
- Hiring diverse talent
- Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection
- Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes
- Ensuring growth opportunities for our people
Actalent is an equal opportunity employer.
About Actalent
Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services. For more than 40 years, we've helped visionary companies advance their goals. Headquartered in the United States, our teams span 150 offices across North America, EMEA, and APAC-with four delivery centers in India led by 1,000+ extraordinary employees who connect their passion with purpose every day.
Our Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, and Chennai delivery centers are hubs of engineering expertise, with core capabilities in mechanical and electrical engineering, systems and software, and manufacturing engineering. Our teams deliver work across multiple industries including transportation, consumer and industrial products, and life sciences. We serve more than 4,500 clients, including many Fortune 500 brands. Learn more about how we can work together at actalentservices.com.