Senior Electrical Engineer

Light and Wonder International, Inc.; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Light & Wonder is seeking an Electrical Engineer in the Reno area to design, validate and sustain hardware for LnW Gaming products. You will work on embedded systems, analyze requirements, and coordinate with vendors and internal teams to ensure reliable electrical platforms for casino and gaming applications.

The role emphasizes circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout, and test automation, with a focus on EMC/EMI compliance, grounding schemes, and harness integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in electronics or related field.
• 2–5 years in electrical hardware development and sustainment.
• Experience with embedded systems and computer architecture.
• Familiarity with CAD tools for schematic capture and PCB layout.
• Knowledge of USB, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, RS-232/RS-485, JTAG, and PCIe.

Responsibilities

• Design, qualify, test electronic components, sub-assemblies, and systems.
• Provide sustainment for existing hardware products.
• Perform design validation and test on newly designed and existing electronic products.
• Project manager for various development, test, and sustaining engineering tasks.
• Maintain relationships with vendors and internal teams for electrical product support.
• Investigate root cause analysis of electrical assemblies and implement corrective actions.
• Support engineering quality efforts in cooperation with vendors and internal LnW teams.

Skills

Electrical Hardware Development

Embedded Systems

Schematic capture

PCB layout

USB/Ethernet/I2C/SPI/RS-232/RS-485/JT​

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Orcad

Job description

Gaming:

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it's all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

Position Summary

The Electrical Engineer designs, modifies, evaluates supports components and processes used in LnW Gaming products and systems. Determines design approaches and parameters. Analyzes equipment to establish operating data, conducts experimental tests and evaluates results. Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability. Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance. May interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.

Essential Job Functions

• Design, qualify, test electronic components, sub-assemblies, and systems.


• Provide sustainment for existing hardware products


• Perform design validation and test on newly designed and existing electronic products


• Project manager for various development, test, and sustaining engineering tasks


• Maintain relationships with vendors and internal LnW teams to provide electrical engineering product support


• Experience in root cause analysis of electrical assemblies and providing corrective actions


• Support engineering quality efforts in cooperation with vendors and internal LnW teams

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 2-5 years' experience in Electrical Hardware Development and Sustainment (full life cycle) with an emphasis on Embedded Systems, Computer Architecture, and Circuit Design


• Experience with the full life cycle of electronic systems development (i.e. concept definition, software requirements, working with distributors, selecting parts, developing design requirements, product release, and manufacturing


• Proficient in schematic capture and PCB layout using industry standard CAD Tools such as Altium or Orcad


• Strong knowledge of various communication protocols such as USB, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, RS-232, RS-485, JTAG, and PCIe


• Experience with diagnostics and forensic debugging of electronic circuit boards and assemblies


• Experience with EMC/EMI FCC/CE, safety testing and compliance desirable


• Technical Knowledge: Deep understanding of grounding schemes, wire sizing trade-offs, signal isolation, and bus interfaces (e.g., Ethernet, RS422)


• Provide the engineering expertise to design, fabricate and integrate harnesses systems and represent the harness discipline on a project


• Investigate, plan, design and develop harnesses to meet various technical requirements

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or significant equivalent experience

Qualifications

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, "L&W") are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job‑related tasks and responsibilities.

Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you'd like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please EEOC Poster.