Sr Electrical Engineer - Exempt

Join our team in Lafayette, CO, a vibrant location offering a perfect blend of innovation and quality of life. As part of our dynamic team, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects that contribute directly to life-changing technologies in the medical device sector.

Primary Responsibilities

• Contribute to the maintenance and testing of mixed-signal electrical systems and circuits for medical devices, ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory standards (e.g., IEC 60601).
• Develop detailed specifications, schematics, and PCB layouts, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to meet design and performance requirements.
• Ensure reliability, develop technical specifications for test hardware conformance to specifications; may include modifying existing products.
• Contribute to technical project planning, establish timelines, define deliverables, and proactively identify and mitigate potential risks.
• Develop detailed specifications for replacement of obsolete components; may include development of test specifications, regulatory assessment, and standards testing (e.g., IEC 60601).
• Monitor, investigate, and validate customer complaint trends to determine if product needs additional modifications or redesign while maintaining product requirements.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience with all phases of mixed-signal board design including architecture, circuit design, schematic capture, component selection, PCB layout, and design verification.
• Strong electrical signals and systems fundamentals including frequency domain representations and circuit analysis.
• Experience with OrCAD schematic capture and PCB layout tools.
• Hands-on experience using lab test equipment (e.g., multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic and network analyzers) for system integration, debugging, and testing.
• Experience designing, testing, and implementing medium-voltage systems.
• Experience in designing and testing medical equipment within a regulated industry and familiarity with 60601-1 safety standard.
• Ability to work in an agile development environment.
• Interest in the challenges of addressing customer complaints.

Additional Responsibilities

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Researches, develops, designs, and tests electrical components, equipment, systems, and networks.
• Designs electrical equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems for commercial, industrial, and domestic purposes.

Specialist Career Stream

• Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty.
• Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results.
• May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower-level professionals.
• The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects from design to implementation while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

Differentiating Factors

• Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor. Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions. Coaches and reviews the work of lower-level specialists; may manage projects/processes.
• Organizational Impact: May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area. Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.
• Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas, or specialties. Makes improvements of processes, systems, or products to enhance performance of the job area. Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.
• Communication and Influence: Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors. Exchanges information of facts, statuses, ideas, and issues to achieve objectives, and influence decision-making.
• Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area. May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Requires advanced knowledge of job area combining breadth and depth, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• May have practical knowledge of project management.
• Requires a University Degree and a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.