Senior Electrical Engineer (Instrumentation)

Optikos Corporation; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology leader seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer (Instrumentation) to join their R&D Team in Wakefield, UK. This role involves owning electrical design projects, interfacing with clients, and ensuring quality product development. Ideal candidates will have solid engineering backgrounds, strong problem-solving abilities, and excellent communication skills, as well as the autonomy to lead projects and innovate in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience with schematic design and board layouts required.
• Strong hands-on skills (soldering, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers) essential.
• Experience with FPGAs and ability to write firmware is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create schematic designs for circuit boards used in metrology products.
• Maintain configuration control of all circuit boards.
• Test and troubleshoot electrical designs and solutions.

Skills

Soldering

Problem-Solving

Communication

Critical Thinking

Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Physics or another related field

Job description

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Description

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Optikos is seeking a highly skilled and collaborative Senior Electrical Engineer to join our R&D Team and take a leading role in growing the EE capability within the company. The ideal candidate will own all aspects of electrical design within Optikos’ existing products and new product development programs. This role is expected to exercise significant autonomy and initiative while keeping stakeholders informed of progress. The Senior Electrical Engineer will also interface with clients and troubleshoot problems. This role reports directly to the CTO.

Description

US Citizenship or Permanent Residency Visa is required.

Optikos is seeking a highly skilled and collaborative Senior Electrical Engineer to join our R&D Team and take a leading role in growing the EE capability within the company. The ideal candidate will own all aspects of electrical design within Optikos’ existing products and new product development programs. This role is expected to exercise significant autonomy and initiative while keeping stakeholders informed of progress. The Senior Electrical Engineer will also interface with clients and troubleshoot problems. This role reports directly to the CTO.

Responsibilities

• Conceive of and specify system level control architecture for new products.
• Create schematic designs for circuit boards that are used in our metrology products. Functions on these boards vary but may include motion control (steppers and servo), laser diode control, incandescent source control, UART and CANbus communications, displays, microcontroller, and interfacing to various input devices.
• Maintain configuration control of all circuit boards.
• Lay out circuit boards and produce fabrication packages.
• Test and troubleshoot boards.
• Specify cable harness designs and work with mechanical designers to create drawings.
• Provide guidance to Production regarding best practices for integrating electronics.
• Produce documentation (design records and work instructions where applicable).
• Shepherd products through the CE certification process as needed.
  
  

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics or another related field.
• At least 5 years’ experience with schematic design and board layouts.
• Strong hands-on skills (soldering, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers etc.)
• Ability to write firmware and/or PC applications for testing boards is a plus.
• Experience with FPGAs is a plus.
• Good understanding of mitigation of susceptibility and emissions is a plus.
• Must be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and eager to learn.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and processes.
• Ability to form good working relationships and lead clients to good decisions.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment.
• Strong organizational capabilities.
  
  

About Optikos Corporation

For more than 40 years, Optikos has provided innovative applications of optical technology, both products and services, to commercial, government, and consumer products organizations worldwide. The Optikos engineering team is the largest independent optical engineering group in the world, managing all aspects of instrument design, including optics, mechanics, electronics and software systems, in addition to our in-house IQ Lab Services to benchmark and assess the performance of customer lens or camera systems. We develop innovative products in the life sciences, aerospace and defense, industrial, and consumer markets, and our experience with a wide variety of applications has enabled our staff to generate creative solutions to some of the most challenging optical problems. Our team continues to improve existing metrology product lines and develop new products that Optikos manufactures and installs around the globe. Our headquarters is centrally located right outside the Boston medical and tech hub in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

If you are an enthusiastic, team-oriented individual looking for a challenge and the opportunity to continue to develop professionally, send us your resume to [e-mail].

This in-office position is located in Wakefield, Massachusetts facility. We offer competitive compensation packages along with a challenging and stimulating environment.

Optikos is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing

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