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Senior Sustaining Electrical Engineer – Boulder, CO
Advancements in pharmaceutical, semiconductor, display, aerospace, and life science companies are all requiring cleaner and cleaner working environments, water, and process chemicals. Even small amounts of microscopic contaminants can ruin batches of medicines or wafers; affect the performance of integrated circuits; or render high-resolution displays unwatchable. The challenge is how to detect contaminates approaching the size of water molecules no bigger than 1nm across (approximately 1/100,000 the thickness of a piece of paper) reliably and rapidly to enable companies to make real time decisions and avoid costly impacts to their business.
Particle Measuring Systems (PMS) has been on the forefront of inventing and advancing particle measurement technologies for over 50 years. Taking particle measuring capabilities to the next level requires new innovations and approaches to further advancements in technologies pushing the limit of what is physically possible. Microscopic particle measuring requires a diverse team of engineers, scientists, and programmers designing advanced optics, lasers, low noise electronics, detectors, signal processing, AI, and material handling all working together towards a common goal.
The Role
As a Senior Sustaining Electrical Engineer, you’ll be working on product life cycle support for a wide range highly technical particle counting instrumentation. You will be working with a team of dedicated engineers and scientists from multiple disciplines in addition to marketing, production, and service people in the organization. You will be working with a wide variety of technologies and using your engineering skills to troubleshoot issues and improve designs. You will be responsible for design enhancements of products to provide new functionality and features and/or extend a product’s life cycle.
Specific Job Responsibilities:
Supporting product updates and sustaining engineering activities
Work in a multi-disciplinary environment that include mechanical and firmware engineers as well as supply chain, production engineers, service technicians and product line managers
Working with embedded processor system electronics
Honing your existing expertise and expanding your capabilities by developing new skills over a broad range of electrical design technologies
Troubleshooting electronics
Generating electronic design updates and verifying them.
Updating design documentation, writing test reports and other technical documents when appropriate
Processing Engineering change orders
Performing root cause analysis
Lead a multi-disciplinary team through an extended design effort
Mentor junior level team members
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
10+ years of hands-on electrical engineering design
Proficiency with schematic capture
Experience with microprocessor circuitry design and peripherals such as FLASH memory, dynamic ram, other interface chips
A solid understanding of signal integrity
Experience with basic analog circuit design, such as op amp circuits, and signal conditioning for ADC and DACs
Experience using analog circuit simulators such as SPICE
The ability to use standard electronic test equipment such as DVMs, oscilloscopes and function generators to test and troubleshoot boards.
Hands on experience troubleshooting complex boards.
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to write clear and concise reports, summarize data and create technical documents
Demonstrated ability to lead and manage interdisciplinary sustaining efforts
Demonstrated ability to direct and manage contracted design projects
Preferred Qualifications
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Experience with 32/64 bit embedded ARM processor designs
Experience with Siemens xDx Designer
Experience interfacing with and using FPGAs
Experience interfacing DDR memory, SPI, I2C, and USB peripheral chips
Experience with DC/DC converter designs, and power sequencing circuitry
Experience with low noise analog electronic design
Experience with photodetectors
Basic programming experience and working knowledge of C and C++
The Details
Location - This is an “in-office” position 75-100% of the time. The location of this position is in Boulder, CO; anticipated move to Niwot, CO in 2025. The remainder of the time you may work from home. These percentages are targets with the actual schedule to be determined in conjunction with the Manager's expectations for the position. Local candidates will receive first consideration, but relocation may be offered for this role.
2024 Benefits At-a-Glance
Our benefit package is provided through our parent company, Spectris.
Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k)
Flexible Spending Account
Onsite Wellness Clinic (Colorado Employees)
Pay Range
$95,000 -145,000 depending upon experience
How we determine what we pay (compensation philosophy)
Particle Measuring Systems determines pay for positions using local, national, and industry-specific survey data, for the Boulder, Colorado area. We will evaluate external equity, which is the relative marketplace job worth of jobs directly comparable to jobs within our company.
For new hires, we make competitive offers between the minimum and the midpoint of the range. There may be times when we will offer above the midpoint. The decision to do so will be based on the applicant’s level of experience, education, and specialized knowledge and skills. Additionally, we consider the external market rate, the amount we have budgeted internally, and the compensation rates of the employees within the company doing the same position.
Particle Measuring Systems is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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