Senior Electrical Engineer

(Direct Placement for Client)

SIGMADESIGN has collaborated with a global company seeking an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to join their facility in Vancouver, Washington. This company is a global manufacturing company with more than 260,000 employees across 100 locations in 30 countries. This company makes products for some of the biggest brands in the world in every market from healthcare, packaging, smartphones and cloud equipment to automotive and home appliances.

Primary Function:

Work with global engineering teams (customer and internal) to develop final product solutions for chosen architecture, exercising strict timeframe, quality and cost control for global development.

Essential Job Functions - Responsibilities:

• Conduct diligence in selecting and developing Asia electrical engineering vendor partnerships for working flexible and scalable solutions.
• Select, develop and deploy Asia resources to customer locations for project collaboration.
• Lead the global electrical engineering Business Unit (BU) resource to develop and implement product architectures in collaboration with the customer and their specific requirements.
• Work with global project managers, global engineering resource and BU managers in providing accurate quoting information.
• Develop and utilize global processes, specific to BU, for system architecture documentation and development with clear protocol and communication to global resources and customers.
• Guide and oversee the development of system component requirements, interfaces and specifications necessary to maintain the consistency and integrity of the architectures.
• Provide leadership for project global cross-functional teams necessary to perform technology studies, product feasibility studies, high level design, component specification and acquisition, and other coordinated project team activities.
• Support the development and utilization of processes for electrical hardware requirement analysis and documentation, design documentation and requirements management.
• Provide a comprehensive design package to the BU and customer consisting of requirements and design documentation, schematics, BOMs, vendor lists and conceptual packaging and assembly drawings prior to production launch.
• Participate in all elements of global design engineering including design reviews and design verification.
• Follow department design flow processes and procedures.
• Provide input to identification and mitigation of technical project risks, technical and integration dependencies affecting overall project plans and schedules.
• Work concurrently with global internal cross-functional departments and the customer to ensure high quality, cost effectiveness and manufacturability for all product solutions.
• Support the BU in production discrepancies by incorporating fixes into subsequent revisions in a timely manner.
• Provide work direction to technicians on associated project.
• Oversee assembly and test of engineering prototypes.
• Convey technical solutions for areas of competence to engineers and to business personnel at various technical levels.
• Adhere to all safety and health rules and regulations associated with this position and as directed by supervisor.
• Comply with and follow all procedures within the company security and safety policies.

Education and Experience: (Knowledge, skills, & abilities)

• Minimum Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and minimum of 10 years’ experience in the design and development of routers, SANs and switches from design to production in related field
  • Travel Requirement: 25%, some international travel required
  • Fluency in both English and Mandarin is required
• Preferred Technical Requirements
  • Experience with high speed microprocessors and interfaces such as DDR, PCI, USB, Serial Interfaces, Fiber channel, etc.
  • Experience in high speed circuit board design, design for manufacturability and able to perform timing analysis for logic design
  • FPGA and CPLD design experience using VHDL
  • Knowledge of solving signal integrity issues for high speed, high performance systems
  • Experience in high speed backplane design and in SPICE simulation
  • Understanding of board layout EMI suppression techniques
  • Electrical verification of PCB and product integration
  • Working knowledge of Agile
  • Basic knowledge of mechanical engineering is required, preferably in test rack solutions
• Language Skills
  • Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures and governmental regulations.
  • Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.
• Mathematical Skills
  • Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of place and solid geometry and trigonometry
  • Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations
• Reasoning Ability
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
  • Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Physical Demands
  • The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be me by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
  • Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift up to 35 lbs.
  • Specific vison requirements include reading of written documents and use of computer monitor screen frequently.
• Work Environment
  • The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
  • Individual’s primary workstation is located in an engineering bullpen area where the noise level is low to moderate.
• Pass a post-offer background verification.