Senior Electrical Engineer – Analytical Instruments (Onsite)

Waters Corporation; Goleta (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Waters Corporation is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer for our Development Engineering Team for Analytical Instruments in Goleta, California. You will design analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits and develop embedded firmware in a multidisciplinary environment that spans electronics, optics, firmware, software, and chemistry.

This onsite role requires hands-on prototyping, design verification, and collaboration across manufacturing, service, and supply chain to bring reliable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related field.
• Typically 5+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s; 3+ years with a Master’s; or equivalent experience.
• Experience designing analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits for analytical instruments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits, PCBs, cabling, and electrical architectures for analytical instruments.
• Create and maintain schematics, PCB layouts, wiring diagrams, BOMs, and docs using Altium Designer or similar tool.
• Develop embedded firmware using C, and employ VHDL/Verilog for hardware interfaces and verification.
• Plan design verification, subsystem testing, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Support product lifecycle through ECOs, design documentation, and risk management.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Service, Quality, Supply Chain, software, and suppliers to transition designs to production.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to design reviews and best practices.

Skills

Electronics design

Embedded C

Firmware development

Schematic capture

Cross-functional collaboration

Test & verification

Python/Excel

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

PCB layout

Verilog/VHDL

Job description

Waters Corporation is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer for our Development Engineering Team for Analytical Instruments in Goleta, California. You will design analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits and develop embedded firmware in a multidisciplinary environment that spans electronics, optics, firmware, software, and chemistry.

This onsite role requires hands-on prototyping, design verification, and collaboration across manufacturing, service, and supply chain to bring reliable