Senior Electrical/Design Engineer - Outdoor

Garmin; Olathe (KS); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Garmin seeks a Senior Electrical/Design Engineer - Outdoor for its U.S. headquarters in the Kansas City area. You will provide technical leadership and plan complex analog, digital and RF designs for Garmin products.

The role requires guiding PCB solutions, leading design reviews, and collaborating with production to meet performance, thermal, and space constraints. Strong communication and a solid EE background are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• GPA 3.0 or higher, strong verbal and written communication.
• Proficiency with complex schematic and PCB design.
• Broad knowledge across analog, digital, RF, and DSP.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and project planning for analog, digital, and RF designs.
• Serve as Project Engineer on new designs or major changes.
• Collaborate with production/engineering to optimize PCB solutions and thermal constraints.
• Lead design reviews and contribute to product development plans.
• Develop experimental test programs to verify regulatory and quality compliance.
• Analyze test data to ensure designs meet specifications and feasibility.

Skills

Leadership

PCB design

Schematic design

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a full-time

Overview

We are seeking a full-time Senior Electrical/Design Engineer - Outdoor at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership and project planning for complex analog, digital, and/or RF designs for products that are new for Garmin.

Essential Functions

• Serves in leadership capacity for carrying out complex design and development of analog, digital or RF designs for products that involve complicated schematics and PCB design consisting of one or more PCB’s
• May serve as a Project Engineer on new projects that involve a new design or major changes to an existing design
• Teams with Production and Engineering to design the best PCB solutions accounting for thermal and space constraints and to turn on new processors along with ensuring robust designs and appropriate testability
• Collaborates and adds value through participation in design reviews
• Offers process improvement suggestions, authors new procedures, and provides technical input to product development plans and concept documents along with making substantial contributions toward determination of project goal/objective feasibility
• Plans and develops experimental test programs to verify compliance to all applicable regulations and quality guidelines using software tools and test equipment
• Analyzes test data and reports to determine if the proposed design meets functional and performance specifications and to determine if applicable to developing other systems
• Interfaces with the Test Engineers and factory personnel on the testing and production of products and support production facilities in the manufacture of products and directs and coordinates manufacture of prototype
• Investigates, researches and evaluates the usage of the latest components and technologies and performs cost/performance tradeoff analysis of different circuit options

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Demonstrated proficiency with a complicated schematic and PCB design consisting of one or more PCB’s
• Broad technical knowledge and skills in one or more areas of Electrical Engineering (e.g., analog, digital, RF, and/or DSP)

Desired Qualifications

• Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
• Extensive circuit design experience for consumer or aviation products

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits