Electrical Engineer II in Brookfield, Wisconsin

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Communicate status updates to other teams and mid-level management. Share lessons learned and design updates to other technical leaders.
• Apply a platform use approach to all new designs, gathering and implementing design considerations for use in multiple product categories.
• Draw concise, logical, written conclusions from experiments based on data analysis.
• Build organizational capacity; provide technical guidance to entry level engineers on their projects.
• Participate in cross functional design reviews as an independent reviewer.
• Work with and establish trusting relationships with engineers and cross-functional teams throughout Asia and the world.
• Design, prototype, test and troubleshoot embedded electronics including hardware and firmware for mid to high-level complexity projects.
• Use laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, e-loads and data acquisition systems.
• Establish and define best practices for fellow team members. Create development tools to increase team efficiency.
• Work with component suppliers and manufacturers for proper component selection on existing projects and input into future product needs.
• Apply a manufacturing mindset to designs in order to effectively and efficiently mass produce products while using expertise to elevate others.
• Quickly identify tradeoffs and solutions to problems in order to resolve in a high urgency environment.
• Design and qualify new designs to applicable regulatory standards such as UL, CEC, CE and ANSI.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar field.
• 2+ years of experience in related design field.
• Root cause failure analysis, and technical preparation of products for mass production.
• C and C++ programming, especially relating to microcontroller peripherals and related development tools and processes preferred.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, especially Excel and Power Point.
• Analog and digital system tradeoffs and design, including signal integrity and noise analysis.
• Schematic capture, PCB layout software, SPICE and industry best practices.
• Ability to travel 10% of the time is required (5% domestic and 5% international).
• High interest in tools of the trade.