Senior Electrical Engineer

Position Title: Senior Electrical Engineer
Department: Engineering
Location: Lenexa, KS

About AGI

AGI is a global food-based infrastructure company publicly traded in Canada. With over 3,800 employees and over 30 global manufacturing brands, AGI is a leading provider of equipment and technology solutions for agricultural commodities including seed, fertilizer, grain and feed systems and an expanding platform for food processing facilities.

The Opportunity

The Senior Electrical Engineer provides broad ownership and technical leadership across electrical design, compliance strategy, and hands-on implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Core team member in the development of compliant products for global markets.
• Leads architectural direction while remaining actively engaged in hands-on circuit design, prototyping, and validation. 
• Generate schematic design, PCB layout design, Bills-Of-Materials, and other documentation to provide a complete electronic design description.
• Execute and manage internal product testing, evaluating products for compliance design criteria and communicating with 3rd party test laboratories like UL / FM.
• Owns projects end-to-end and drives engineering solutions with minimal oversight.
• Product validation and verification testing to ensure product meets required standards (FCC, CE, CSA, UL/cUL, ATEX) and revise designs as needed.
• Perform design cost optimization and part library maintenance.
• Exhibit in-depth knowledge of PCB layout design, multi-layer stack-up (including flex and flex-rigid), component footprint creation, and fabrication process.
• Use design constraints to develop a robust design, such as techniques of DFM, DFA and DFT, methods of ESD mitigation, and requirements for compliance with EMI/EMC and safety testing (FCC, CE, CSA, UL/cUL, ATEX).
• Design production test fixtures and processes that interface with the product.
• Conduct analysis to find root cause of hardware or low-level software design issues in existing or new products and generate detailed reports to document the findings and resolutions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
• 10 of electrical engineering experience.
• Experience with compliance standards for hazardous locations, CE, UL508A preferred.
• Experience with RF module design and compliance testing preferred.
• Hands-on experience with engineering tools: multi-meter, spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, JTAG debuggers, logic analyzer, RF power meter, signal generator, load tester, data logger.
• Hands-on experience with microcontrollers, including 8051 or ARM X architecture.
• Proficiency with interfaces such as I2C, SPI, USB, SDRAM/FLASH, JTAG, RS-232, RS-485, CAN, Modbus, Ethernet, LVDS, GPIO.
• Development experience with wireless design using NBIoT / LTE modem, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth.
• Design experience with ESD, EMI and EMC consideration, signal integrity analysis and circuit simulation.
• Hands-on experience with IoT system design.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Proficient with electronics hardware design and PLM tools (examples: Arena, Fusion 360) Altium Design is preferred.
• Solid understanding of hardware development life cycle (HDLC) with subversion tools like Gitlab, SVN, Bugzilla, Jira, Confluence.

Why AGI?

We’re leading the way in global food supply chain solutions and here’s how:
We’re the leading global expert in providing farmers, processors and commercial customers with the right equipment and customized engineering solutions to produce, protect and deliver the world’s grain, fertilizer, seed, feed and food supplies. Dedicated to safety, innovation and customization, AGI offers one of the largest catalogs of equipment and full-service planning and engineering services for the storage, blending, mixing, conveying, conditioning, and processing of agricultural products worldwide. Supported by an extensive in-country sales and service team, AGI provides a global distribution network and state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Canada, the United States, Brazil, India, France, and Italy.

Our Culture

Safety and teamwork are the cornerstones of our global culture. In all aspects of our business, diverse and inclusive teams work together to deliver quality products, solutions, and services for our customers around the world.

Our Benefits

Our competitive salaries, benefits packages, and employee share purchase plan help you take care of your family. Professional development activities keep you learning and involved, offering many opportunities to grow and advance your career.

With AGI, you’re choosing an employer dedicated to strengthening and securing the global food supply chain.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis, this position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

AGI is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

Accommodations are available upon request for candidates with a disability taking part in the recruitment process and once hired.