Electrical Engineer III

Summary of Position: (Provide a brief narrative, one or two sentences, that highlights the primary purpose to the organization and key responsibilities of the job).

Designs, develops, and tests electrical equipment, components, circuits, or systems. Applies mathematical and engineering principles and methods to designs. Performs extensive testing and validation of designs to ensure reliability, performance, electromagnetic interference (EMI) and safety requirements are achieved. Conducts research and studies new technologies to innovate and design solutions or products.

Collaborates with other Engineers on moderately complex aspects of projects. Work is generally independent.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities: (State the essential functions of the job, organized from most to least essential. Include normal day-to-day duties as well as duties that occur at irregular intervals but that are of a recurring and essential nature. Include leadership and managerial responsibilities, if applicable).

• Collaborate with other Engineers to design new products or product enhancements.
• Follow Engineering Department Processes.
• Design electrical components and assemblies to meet specified requirements.
• Utilize electrical CAD software to design printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs).
  • Create Schematic drawings for each new PCB.
  • Utilize Programmable Logic Device (PLD) and Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) CAD software and VHDL to design and test programmable logic components of PCBAs.
• Document PCB layout design rules to achieve PCBA performance including meeting EMI emissions requirements.
• Work with PCB development services to design the artwork for multi-layer PCBs.
• Create test plans and tools to verify new designs.
• Develop embedded firmware
• Thoroughly test new designs to verify requirements are met.
• Collaborate with other Engineers to analyze and troubleshoot electrical issues or failures reported by customers and/or Operations to identify root causes and develop solutions.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required: (List the minimum required education, prior experience, certifications, licenses, and specialized areas of knowledge required to adequately perform the essential functions of the job).

• Requires a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.
• Requires 4-7 years of related experience.
• Proficient with electrical components including magnetic, optical and other sensors, motors, solenoids and PCBA design to interface with such sensors.
• Proficient with high-speed analog and digital circuit design including analog signal conditioning, A/D and D/A converters, CPUs and microcontrollers.
• Proficient with VHDL
• Proficient with electrical PCB/PCBA/FPGA CAD software
  • Schematic capture - Orcad, Altium preferred
  • FPGA design and simulation - Xilinx ISE, Efinix Efinity, Intel Quartus, Modelsim preferred
• Proficient with desktop computers and MS Windows desktop applications

Personal Skills and Competencies: (Identify any behavioral characteristics and attributes that would contribute to superior performance for this position, i.e. organization skills, communication skills, detail-orientation, analytical skills).

• Strong attention to detail, highly organized.
• Excellent collaboration and communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Highly independent worker

Customer Base: (Identify who the primary and secondary customers are for the position. This includes any person or group of people, internal or external, who rely on the work product or output of the position).

• Engineering Department Manager
• Engineering Project Managers

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements of the Job: (Indicate what the physical requirements are to complete the essential functions of the job, i.e. lifting, standing, etc. Also indicate any working conditions that may be out of the ordinary, i.e. travel, on call or unusual hours, exposure to noise, etc.).

• No special requirements
• The primary work location is the Digital Check Corp. office in Novi, MI with the possibility for some amount of work from home.
• Very minimal travel

The above is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor is it intended to be an exhaustive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, it is intended only to describe the general nature of the job. Employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.