Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Title: Hardware/Electrical R&D Engineer IV

Duration: 12+ Months (Possible Contract to Hire)

Location: Arden Hills, MN, 55112

Onsite Role

Key Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, debugs, modifies, and tests electrical circuits and systems by using current tools, analysis techniques, and technologies.
• Documents electrical development by writing documents, reports, memos, change requests. Methods used are determined by approved procedures and standards.
• Tracks electrical development effort by creating and maintaining records in the approved tracking management tool to include, utilizing multiple version control, defect tracking, and peer review tools including Accurev, JIRA and Windchill.
• Solves engineering problems by analyzing the situation and recommending corrective or alternative actions.
• Analyzes, evaluates, verifies, requirements, circuits, and systems by using engineering practices.
• Investigates, researches, selects, and evaluates electronic circuits, components, tools, equipment, and practices.
• Ability to perform design analysis and exploratory testing.
• Ability to work with electrical and mechanical hardware and associated tools and infrastructure.
• Able to write final evaluation reports and work with the regulatory group to satisfy the requirements for external regulatory agencies.
• Establishes and promotes a work environment that supports the Quality Policy and Quality System.
• Demonstrates a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance to the Quality Policy and all other documented quality processes and procedures.
• Solves a range of problems of varying scope and complexity, generally applying existing solutions, while exercising autonomy to propose alternatives, understanding their impact on the business or apply judgment based on experience to develop new solutions
• Works independently, guided by company policies, guidelines and procedures, receiving guidance on complex and unprecedented problems

Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelors required in Electrical Engineering (plus 5+ year experience) or Masters (plus 3+ year experience)
• Ability to collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from all stakeholders using all sources of data.
• Ability to analyze test results and perform risk analysis.
• Ability to interpret and research requirements, specifications, and input/output processes.
• Experience with change management and issue tracking tools such as JIRA, AccuRev, Windchill etc.

Preferred requirements:
• 3+ years of experience in hardware engineering.
• 3+ year experience automated and manual testing in regulated industry, preferably in active implantable medical device domain.
• 2+ year experience in system development lifecycle process including formalized processes and procedures.
• Create test protocols and automate tests using Python and other relevant tools.
• Create protocols, automate tests, general experience in Perl, Python, HTML, scripting or equivalent