Senior R&D Electrical Engineer

Jobtailor

Town of Florida (NY)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks an experienced embedded firmware engineer to develop medical device electronics and power tools. You will craft hardware-software interfaces, implement motor control, battery management, and sensing, and ensure regulatory compliance throughout development.

The role requires hands-on design, rigorous verification, and collaboration across engineering, QA, and manufacturing teams in a medical device context.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering.
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8+ years in embedded hardware/firmware architecture.
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Strong analog/digital/mixed-signal design foundations.
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Hands-on firmware development in C for MCUs.
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Experience with SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, LIN.
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PCB design, reviews, bring-up, and integration.
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Regulatory-compliant design with medical-device context.
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Excellent written and verbal communication across teams.
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Master's degree preferred (electrical engineering).
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Responsibilities

Develop embedded firmware tightly coupled to hardware for surgical power tools and related devices.
Lead architecture from feasibility through product lifecycle support.
Design power distribution, motor drive circuits, sensing, and control hardware.
Create DFx artifacts: requirements, architecture, designs, tests, and traceability.
Collaborate across electrical, mechanical, software, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing teams.
Perform design-verification testing and participate in design reviews.

Skills

Embedded Firmware Development

Electrical System Design

PCB Development

Regulatory Compliance for Medical

Embedded Communication Interfaces SPI,

SPI I2C UART CAN LIN

Three-Phase Brushless DC Motors

Low-Level Debugging

Schematic Development

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering (Preferred)

Tools

Altium Designer

Cadence

OrCAD

LTspice

Texas Instruments C2000

Cortex M Microcontrollers

Laboratory Test Equipment

Debuggers

Data Acquisition Equipment

Electronic Loads

Job description

Develop embedded firmware tightly coupled to electrical hardware for next-generation surgical power tools, batteries, chargers, motor controllers, handpieces, accessories, and related electromechanical equipment.
Participate in electrical designs from early feasibility and architecture through schematic development, PCB implementation, board bring-up, firmware integration, design verification, regulatory support, manufacturing transfer, and product lifecycle support.
Design and develop surgical power tools, motor controllers, battery systems, chargers, handpieces, accessories, and supporting equipment.
Define electrical system and subsystem architectures, including power distribution, motor drive circuitry, safety circuits, sensing, communications, and embedded control hardware.
Design and develop electronics and embedded controls for three-phase brushless DC motor systems.
Translate product and system requirements into electrical requirements, interface definitions, component specifications, schematics, PCB designs, and verification strategies.
Perform design calculations, simulations, component derating analyses, tolerance analyses, power budgets, timing analyses, and technical trade studies.
Conduct and support architecture, schematic, PCB layout, component, and cross-disciplinary design reviews.
Maintain ownership of electrical systems from initial concept and prototype development through verification, regulatory approval, manufacturing release, and post-market support.
Develop embedded firmware interfaces to battery-management ICs, charging circuits, temperature sensors, current sensors, pack identification, authentication, and communication devices.
Support battery safety, reliability, verification, transportation, and regulatory compliance activities.
Perform system power measurements and characterize battery, charger, load, and motor-controller interactions under normal and fault conditions.
Plan and execute board bring-up for prototype and production‑intent electronic assemblies.
Develop bring‑up procedures, test firmware, diagnostic routines, and engineering fixtures.
Perform low‑level debugging using laboratory test equipment and in‑circuit debugging tools.
Design, implement, test, and maintain embedded firmware in C and C++ for microcontroller‑based medical devices and power‑tool systems.
Develop device drivers, peripheral initialization, interrupt service routines, timers, ADC, PWM, communication peripherals, and hardware protection features.
Develop firmware for motor control, battery management, power sequencing, sensor acquisition, fault detection, diagnostics, state‑machine control, and real‑time behavior.
Configure and integrate SPI, I2C, UART, LIN, CAN, GPIO, ADC, PWM, timers, comparators, and hardware fault inputs.
Develop boot, startup, calibration, diagnostic, and firmware‑update functionality when required.
Participate in firmware design reviews, peer code reviews, static analysis, unit testing, integration testing, configuration management, and controlled release activities.
Create firmware requirements, architecture descriptions, detailed designs, interface documentation, test evidence, and traceability records for regulated medical-device development.
Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, systems, quality, regulatory, clinical, manufacturing, software, and supplier teams.
Serve as a senior technical contributor and communicate technical decisions, design risks, test results, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
Participate in project planning, feasibility assessments, resource estimation, technical risk management, and schedule development.
Identify technical risks and critical‑path issues and contribute to cross‑functional problem solving.
Contribute to technology roadmaps, platform architectures, product improvements, engineering processes, and future product development.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
Eight or more years of relevant experience in architecture development for embedded hardware and firmware platforms.
Strong electrical engineering foundation, including analog circuits, digital circuits, mixed‑signal design, power electronics, control systems, component selection, and schematic development.
Significant hands‑on experience developing embedded firmware in C for microcontroller‑based systems.
Experience with low‑level firmware, hardware peripheral control, interrupt‑driven applications, real‑time behavior, and direct hardware interfaces.
Experience with embedded communication interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, LIN, and CAN.
Experience with PCB development, including schematic capture, design reviews, board bring‑up, debugging, and hardware/firmware integration.
Experience using oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, logic analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, data‑acquisition equipment, debuggers, and other laboratory test equipment.
Experience developing and executing design‑verification testing.
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex electrical and embedded system problems using structured, data‑driven methods.
Experience delivering products within a regulated design‑control or quality‑system environment.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
Preferred: Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
Preferred: Experience developing FDA‑regulated medical devices or other safety‑critical products.
Preferred: Experience with surgical power tools, electromechanical medical devices, robotics, or surgical capital equipment.
Preferred: Experience with brushless DC motors, three‑phase inverters, gate drivers, MOSFET power stages, current sensing, commutation, or field‑oriented control.
Preferred: Experience with Texas Instruments C2000, Cortex M, or comparable embedded microcontroller platforms.
Preferred: Experience with lithium‑ion batteries, battery‑management ICs, fuel gauges, battery chargers, pack‑protection electronics, and battery safety standards.
Preferred: Knowledge of IEC 60601‑1, IEC 62133, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, FDA design controls, and IEC 62304 concepts applicable to embedded medical‑device firmware.
Preferred: Experience with Altium Designer, Cadence, OrCAD, LTspice, LTpowerCAD, or similar electrical design and simulation tools.
Preferred: Familiarity with source control, configuration management, static analysis, code reviews, and controlled embedded firmware releases.
Preferred: Willingness to work in medical environments, including cadaver laboratories and operating‑room settings, when required.
Preferred: Ability to travel domestically or internationally as required by the role.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in developing embedded firmware and electrical systems for medical devices, with a strong foundation in analog and digital circuit design, embedded communication interfaces, and regulatory compliance. Proficient in collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative surgical power tools and related electromechanical equipment.

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