Senior Electrical Engineer - Embedded & Wireless (Hybrid)

Digi International; Hopkins (MN); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

New hire stock award

Open PTO

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Digi International is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer in Hopkins, MN, hybrid role. You will own the electrical design of embedded and wireless products from concept through production, selecting design approaches and directing PCB layout, schematics, and verification.

You will collaborate across firmware, RF, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to ensure robust, manufacturable solutions and mentor junior engineers in a dynamic, customer-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years designing commercial electronic products (or MS with 3+ years).
• Experience taking a hardware design from concept through manufacturing and production release.
• Hands-on experience with the full hardware design cycle: circuit design, schematic capture, component selection, PCB layout direction and review, board bring‑up, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing embedded hardware using microcontrollers, processors, sensors, power supplies, and digital communication interfaces.
• Working understanding of signal integrity, thermal mitigation, power analysis, and impedance matching in real designs.
• Ability to articulate circuit and architecture tradeoffs clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Demonstrated initiative, ownership, and the ability to deliver technical work independently while managing multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own the electrical design of embedded and wireless products from concept through production, selecting the right design approach and making defensible design decisions.
• Design electronic circuits, select components, create and review schematics, and direct PCB layout.
• Build, bring up, test, troubleshoot, and improve electronic circuits and embedded hardware platforms with minimal oversight.
• Evaluate design tradeoffs related to performance, reliability, power, cost, manufacturability, component availability, and product lifecycle, and explain the rationale to peers and stakeholders.
• Participate in customer discussions to understand requirements, clarify technical challenges, and present practical design recommendations.
• Translate customer and system needs into electrical requirements, interfaces, design specifications, and verification plans.
• Partner with firmware, RF, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and project management teams throughout product development.
• Lead hardware integration, verification, validation, and certification activities within the electrical design scope, and support production and sustaining engineering.
• Identify technical risks early, propose mitigation, and communicate clearly with internal stakeholders and customers.
• Mentor entry-level engineers, contribute to team best practices, and drive continuous improvement in design quality.

Skills

Electrical design

Embedded hardware

PCB layout

Schematic capture

Circuit design

Microcontrollers

Power analysis

Signal integrity

RF fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

MS degree with 3+ years

Tools

SOMs

SBCs

XBee

Job description

Digi International is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer in Hopkins, MN, hybrid role. You will own the electrical design of embedded and wireless products from concept through production, selecting design approaches and directing PCB layout, schematics, and verification.

You will collaborate across firmware, RF, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to ensure robust, manufacturable solutions and mentor junior engineers in a dynamic, customer-focused environment.