What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Electrical Engineer position at Planet Pharma?
Pay 55-65/h, may consider higher for more experience.
As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader and expert in designing, developing, and integrating complex electrical systems for the company's Surgical Innovations products. This role provides a unique opportunity to work on challenging projects, mentor team members, and contribute directly to life-changing technologies.
You will work cross-functionally with teams in mechanical engineering, software development, quality assurance, new product development, and manufacturing to drive projects from concept through commercialization, with a focus on technology development. Your work will help the company achieve its mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life for millions of patients worldwide.
Primary Responsibilities
As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader and expert in designing, developing, and integrating complex electrical systems for the company's Surgical Innovations products. This role provides a unique opportunity to work on challenging projects, mentor team members, and contribute directly to life-changing technologies.
You will work cross-functionally with teams in mechanical engineering, software development, quality assurance, new product development, and manufacturing to drive projects from concept through commercialization, with a focus on technology development. Your work will help the company achieve its mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life for millions of patients worldwide.
Primary Responsibilities
- Contribute to the maintenance and testing of mixed-signal electrical systems and circuits for medical devices, ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory standards (e.g., IEC 60601).
- Develop detailed specifications, schematics, and PCB layouts, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to meet design and performance requirements.
- Ensure reliability, develop technical specifications for test hardware conformance to specifications; may include modifying existing products.?
- Contributes to technical project planning, establish timelines, define deliverables, and proactively identify and mitigate potential risks.
- Develop detailed specifications for replacement of obsolete components; may include development of test specifications, regulatory assessment, and standards testing (e.g., IEC 60601)
- Monitor, investigate, and validate customer complaint trends to determine if product needs additional modifications or redesign while maintaining product requirements
- Other responsibilities as assigned
- Mixed?Signal Electrical System Design & Analysis
- Proven expertise across end?to?end mixed?signal board design: system architecture, circuit design, schematic capture, component selection, PCB layout, and design verification
- Strong fundamentals in signal integrity, frequency?domain analysis, and circuit theory
- Ability to design, test, and integrate medium?voltage and safety?critical systems for medical devices
- Medical Device Regulatory Compliance & Safety Standards (IEC 60601)
- Hands?on experience designing and testing regulated medical equipment
- Strong working knowledge of IEC 60601?1 safety standard, regulatory assessments, and standards?based verification testing
- Experience handling component obsolescence, regulatory impact assessments, and compliance testing
- Hardware Verification, Debugging & Reliability Engineering
- Extensive use of lab test equipment (oscilloscopes, logic/network analyzers, DMMs) for system integration, debugging, and validation
- Ability to develop test specifications, validate conformance, and ensure long?term reliability
- Experience analyzing customer complaints, identifying root causes, and driving design improvements without compromising requirements
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 4 years of electrical engineering experience
- OR a Master’s degree with a minimum of 2 years of electrical engineering experience
- Experience with all phases of mixed-signal board design including architecture, circuit design, schematic capture, component selection, PCB layout, and design verification
- Strong electrical signals and systems fundamentals including frequency domain representations and circuit analysis
- Experience with OrCAD schematic capture and PCB layout tools
- Hands-on experience using lab test equipment (e.g. multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic and network analyzers) for system integration, debugging and testing Experience designing, testing, and implementing medium-voltage systems (
- Experience in designing and testing medical equipment within a regulated industry and familiarity with 60601-1 safety standard
- Ability to work in an agile development environment??
- Interest in the challenges of addressing customer complaints?