Senior Electrical Engineer

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Founded in 1918, Kearfott Corporation is a global Aerospace and Defense supplier for over 100 years, a leader in the design and manufacture of precision motion control products and inertial navigation components. Kearfott has a long history of innovation and excellence and is a trusted, respected provider for global clients in aerospace and defense. With over a century of expertise, Kearfott is dedicated to providing quality, reliability, and cutting-edge technology to meet sea, land, air, and space navigation and guidance requirements.

Kearfott offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, sick leave pay, vacation pay, 401K, and Tuition Reimbursement. The company operates on a 9 / 80 schedule with every other Friday off.

Exciting opportunity for a Senior Electrical Engineer to work within our Motion and Sensors Division in Black Mountain, North Carolina. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and execution of projects utilizing embedded electronic controls for Kearfott's range of electromechanical devices : actuators and brushless DC (BLDC) motors, in the aerospace and defense markets. This position requires a solid understanding of analog and digital circuit design and layout, power electronics, high speed digital interfaces, FPGAs, DSPs, microcontrollers, DACs / ADCs, electric motor control theory, embedded software / firmware, system controls, and overall system mathematical modeling.

The Senior Electrical Engineer is responsible for reviewing and interpreting customer requirements, both technical and programmatic, and assessing the level of effort required to fulfill them from an electronics perspective. This position also contributes to sales proposal efforts, prototype development, and other New Product Introduction (NPI) activities culminating in the transition of new products into production.

Essential Functions

• Product / Project Lifecycle Engineering : develops electronic architectures and implements designs for control of Kearfott components and systems
• Understands manufacturing and design trade-offs, ensuring practical, realizable implementations
• Develops and validates system performance models and predictions
• Participates as a member of a cross-functional project team including software, mechanical, manufacturing engineers, program managers, technicians, and sales / customer support staff
• Supports product improvement and cost reduction initiatives
• Performs and / or coordinates design analyses using Matlab, Mathcad, and Pspice (or other CAE / simulation tools)
• Prepares, maintains, and adheres to project schedules and electronics project management tasks as required

Business Development Support

Required Skills

Requirements

This is an on-site role (100%) at our Black Mountain, NC facility. Relocation assistance is available.

Equal Opportunity Employer / including Disabled / Veterans

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