Senior Electrical Engineer

Carrier; Minnesota; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Carrier, based in Minnesota, is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead hardware design aspects of product development. You'll collaborate across functions to deliver electronic designs that comply with regulatory standards and customer needs, ensuring projects adhere to Agile methodologies.

The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, have over 5 years of professional experience, and possess hands-on experience with PCB designs. You will thrive in a collaborative environment and engage in innovative product development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional work experience.
• 3+ years developing PCBA designs.
• Experience in regulated product sectors (medical, automotive, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware aspects of products through their lifecycle.
• Develop engineering requirements and rationales.
• Implement electronic designs meeting customer and regulatory standards.

Skills

Electrical design leadership

CAD modeling & simulation

Agile methodology

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

PCB design software

DFMEA techniques

Job description

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together

About this role

The Senior Electrical Engineer leads and manages hardware aspects of products throughout their entire lifecycle from architecture, planning, design through verification and validation. Provides electrical-design technical leadership for cross-functional new product development and sustaining engineering projects. Hardware design development is for products based on different sensing technologies (e.g. Optical, Electrochemical) and communication technologies (wired and wireless).

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and write engineering requirements and rationales that align with customer requirements and regulatory standards.
• Implement new or updated electronic designs that meet or exceed all customer, marketing, and regulatory requirements.
• Assess the impact of making changes to electrical components, subcircuits, PCBs, and PCBAs.
• Author and lead through to implementation engineering change requests, manufacturing and engineering change orders.
• Complete computer assisted design (CAD) modeling & simulation, risk analyses (e.g. DFMEA), schematic capture, and board layouts of designs.
• Participate in the development of test cases.
• Build and test designs from bench-level to formal verification and validation level using in-house test setups or at 3rd party test facilities.
• Support product quality investigations and perform root cause analyses.
• Follow development processes, lead technical reviews, and properly document, test, and control work deliverables.
• Provide work breakdown plans and task estimates in support of project estimates and management.
• Use Agile methodology for hardware development with clear communication to project stakeholders with metrics to track and report progress.
• Identify project risks and provide practical proposals to close gaps and mitigate risks.
• Participate in roadmap and resource planning.
• Support multiple product development programs at a given time.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ years of professional work experience.
• 3+ years developing PCBA’s designs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Analog circuit design experience strongly preferred.
• Microcontroller (MCU) experience.
• "C" programming experience.
• Experience with Design for Manufacturability and Design for Test.
• Participation in the development of at least one product development effort from inception through market launch.
• Platformed product development experience.
• Regulated product experience (medical, automotive, Industrial Life Safety, SIL2).
• Agile methodology experience.
• Experience across all phases of the program development lifecycle, from requirements capture through design, implementation, and test.
• Experienced with FMEAs and developing control techniques to mitigate risks.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Self-motivated and demonstrated ability to lead process improvement activities.