Electrical Designer - Customer & R&D
ForceN
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Job summary
Qualifications
- Electrical Engineering degree with portfolio of PCB design experience.
- Experience in schematic capture and PCB layout including high-density designs.
- Familiarity with Altium, Python, and PLM systems is a plus.
- Soldering and hot-air reflow experience (BGA, QFN, 0201).
- Follow design process and track tasks (Jira); communicate gaps clearly.
- Strong written and verbal communication; document design decisions.
- Analytical problem solving with attention to detail and quality outputs.
- Experience designing/validating power electronics is a plus.
- Appreciation for firmware/software interaction with hardware.
- ISO 9001/13485 familiarity is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Design rigid and flexible PCBs in Altium for prototype and production projects.
- Generate documents for PCBA fabrication and manage the purchasing process.
- Coordinate with suppliers to manufacture PCBAs following project schedules.
- Coordinate with suppliers to manufacture PCBAAs per project schedules.
- Support electrical architecture verification and testing including EMI/ESD.
- Develop test plans to compare technologies and document results.
- Explore new tech improvements; own power electronics portion.
- Communicate requirements across Mechanical, Manufacturing and Product.
- Engage with customer system integration efforts and feedback.
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Job description
ForceN is surpassing human manipulation through scalable force-torque sensing hardware, improving surgical precision and enabling the next generation of robotic sensing technology. ForceN designs and manufactures high-reliability, high-precision systems; leveraging a proprietary digitally-manufactured transducer film that can be wrapped around any surgical or robotic component to create a "digital sense of touch". ForceN's technology enables robotics and physical AI companies to tackle complex robotic interaction and manipulation problems.
Our customers are world leaders in surgical, logistics, and frontier robotics. We accelerate our customers’ development in robotics manipulation. We excel at providing a robust, reliable, and scalable solution with industry-leading development and deployment time.
Forcen designs rigid and flexible printed circuit boards (PCB) in-house with strong focus on modularity, manufacturing and assembly. With the increasing demand for Forcen’s sensing systems, the software, electrical and firmware (SEF) team is looking to bring onboard a talented electrical designer with a portfolio of past PCB design experience to join the team.
Being an Electrical Designer within the SEF team, your day-to-day tasks will include the following:
- Design rigid and flexible PCBs in Altium for prototype and production projects, ensuring all gate processes are fulfilled before releasing for manufacturing
- Generate necessary documents for PCBA fabrication and carry out the purchasing process
- Validation of new PCBA designs including board bring-up and debugging
- Coordinate with suppliers to manufacture PCBAs following project schedules
- Support new electrical architecture verification, validation and characterization testing efforts
- Create and execute new development test plans to directly compare performance of different technologies; including key certification level testing (i.e. EMI, ESD)
- Investigate new technology improvements; specifically owning the power electronics portion of our electrical architecture
- Communicate with cross-functional teams (Mechanical, manufacturing and product) to ensure design requirements are well defined and properly met
- Communicate and provide feedback to key customer system integration efforts
The SEF team is full of passionate members that enjoy and love what they do. We are looking for a talented candidate that likes to take on a challenge and excel at finding solutions with an initiative to learn along the way, to grow together as a team!
- Electrical Engineering degree, portfolio of PCB design experience or equivalent
- Schematic capture and PCB layout experience including multi-layer, high-density (HDI), differential routing, analog and EMI/EMC conscious designs (Altium highly preferred)
- PCBA debugging experience for analog circuitry and/or industrial peripherals (eg: USB, Ethernet, CAN, SPI, … etc) including the use of electrical equipment such as DMM and Oscilloscopes
- Soldering and hot air reflow experience (BGA, QFN, 0201 components preferred)
- Ability to follow design process and accurately track assigned tasks (Jira preferred) as well as identifying gaps or areas of improvement and articulating them effectively to the team
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to document design process and articulate design decisions effectively
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills including attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality outputs
- Experience designing and validating power electronics is a plus
- Appreciation for how firmware and software interact with the hardware
- Familiarity with Altium 365 and component library management is a huge plus
- Familiarity with Python for data analysis and test development is a huge plus
- Familiarity with PLM systems such as Arena is a plus
- Familiarity designing and working in an ISO 9001 and 13485 certified company is a plus
- Comprehensive medical, vision and dental benefits package
- Additional bonus and options compensation
- Opportunities for professional development and growth
- Collaborative and innovative work environment
- Hybrid work environment, open-concept hardware start-up environment - Dog-friendly office
- Culture outings with company sponsored events (intramurals, food expeditions, swag)
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