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Sr. Electrical Engineer

Sr. Electrical Engineer

CompanyFresenius Medical Care
LocationAndover, MA, USA
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
  • Minimum 7+ years’ experience in electrical product development, medical device or highly regulated product development preferred.
  • Experience in medium-to-complex electronics board design including concept, requirements, schematic design entry, circuit simulation/analysis, PCB layout, board bring-up, troubleshooting and release to manufacturing.
  • Strong knowledge and experience in one or more areas of analog, power, digital, or embedded circuit design; working knowledge of a variety of sensors and actuators a plus.
  • Experience and mastery of schematic and PCB design tools such as OrCAD, Allegro.
  • Experience with printed circuit board manufacturing process in effectively applying DFM and DFT.
  • Experience using tools to test and troubleshoot electrical circuit boards such as oscilloscope and logic analyzer.
  • Excellent problem solver skill demonstrated over a wide range of difficult electrical engineering problems.
  • Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
  • Solid understanding of entire development process, including specification, documentation, and quality assurance.
  • Experience in medical device safety and EMC compliance (IEC 60601, CE, etc.) strongly preferred.
  • Excellent organizational and verbal/written communication skills.
  • Highly motivated and energetic. Passion for creating high quality medical device hardware.

Responsibilities

  • Participate actively in requirement definition, system architecture development, detailed design and analysis, circuit board bring up and verification, system integration and validation.
  • Responsible for electrical design of systems/sub-systems of major projects and resolve advanced and complex technical problems including feasibility investigation, circuit design/analysis/simulation, and DFM/DFT/Design for reliability.
  • Lead hardware design reviews and other related technical reviews.
  • Lead new design debugging and developing reliability improvements to existing & new design.
  • Responsible for design documentation such as Design Description, Theory of Operations, Test plan.
  • Collaborate with the project team to resolve advanced and complex technical problems.
  • Support Risk Management activities including performing Risk Analysis such as FTA and FMEA to ensure design and process shortcomings are identified and appropriately addressed.
  • Support complex automated and semi-automated assembly and test equipment.
  • Provide technical support to emerging issues in production, quality, engineering, or supply chain.
  • Support manufacturing plant Lean and cost reduction projects.
  • Keeps abreast of state-of-the-art of electronics and related technologies to ensure safety and quality of Fresenius products.
  • Support process improvement such as the adoption of best practices and design methodologies.
  • Provide mentoring and assistance to Electrical Engineer III, II and I level staff.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in investigational analysis methods such as DFMEA, Design of Experiments a plus.