Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Viken Detection provides enabling security imaging and material identification solutions that help law enforcement and safety inspection professionals keep the public safe from drug trafficking, terrorism, and environmental hazardous threats. The company's innovative vehicle scanners, the OSPREY PortalTM series, and its handheld products, the HBI-120TM, NIGHTHAWK-HBITM, FOXHOUND-HNATM and Pb200i are the recognized leaders in their markets. Viken Detection is headquartered just west of Boston in Burlington, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.vikendetection.com

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

What you will do:

• Day to day activities include Design, debugging, and collaborating with teammates to develop highly integrated products
• Technologies include x-ray backscatter, ION Mobility Spectroscopy, X-Ray Fluorescence, and other detection technologies.
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
• Support operations with component selection and substitution
• Support customer issues in the field
• Opportunities to travel to support customers and system installation

Requirements

• Electrical Engineering Degree, either BS or MS
• 5+ years of Senior Electrical Engineering experience
• Experience with AC mains power design and analysis with knowledge of the National Electrical Code standard desired
• Digital and analog design experience
• Schematic capture using OrCad Capture or similar tool
• Circuit board layout experience in support of layout designer
• Experience leading projects and resources
• Good communication and documentation skills
• Knowledge of handheld and wireless device standards
• Experience in designing robust electronics for industrial environments.
• Expertise in designing compact, high-density electronic boards.
• A strong understanding of Design for Manufacturability (DFM) principles.
• Proven ability in highly efficient power electronics design.
• Understanding of circuit board design and layout techniques for signal integrity and electro-magnetic compliance.
• Analog design experience, particularly for low noise applications
• Product development expertise working with multiple disciplines such as software development, mechanical design, test engineering, and manufacturing.
• Experience with integrating and validating peripherals such as USB, Ethernet, 802.11, and Bluetooth
• Enjoys hands-on lab work testing and validating new hardware designs

Bonus Skills

• FCC/CE Compliance experience preferred
• FPGA design (Verilog preferred) and verification
• High voltage design experience preferred (

Our compensation and benefits package include:

• Competitive salary and company bonus
• Medical and dental insurance with premiums fully funded by Viken Detection
• Three weeks of PTO for newly hired employees, plus 12 paid company holidays.
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds
• Life insurance and disability coverage

Viken Detection is an Equal Opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.