Electrical Engineer III (Need locals to Tewksbury, MA )

Job Title: Electrical Engineer III

Location: Tewksbury, MA

Duration: 1 year contract

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with a cross-functional team to deliver best-in-class chemical detectors using Ion Mobility Spectrometry.
• Perform fundamental engineering duties in electrical/electronic design efforts including system development, integration and testing for a variety of chemical trace detection products.
• Create design specification documents including system specifications, schematics and PCB designs.
• Convert conceptual designs into complete product designs, including the appropriate connectors, cables and wiring to meet the system design criteria.
• Develop test procedures and test fixtures to support design validation and production testing.
• Collaborate with a global team including CAD/PCB designers and technicians on the design, development and release of new products to production.
• Collaborate on best practices and promote adoption across the organization.

Minimal Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in electrical engineering, or a closely related field, with 10+ years of experience; or

a Master s degree in a related field and 8+ years of experience.

• Must possess the technical background and skills to perform in all phases of electrical/electronic circuit design, development, testing and documentation.
• Design and develop innovative technical hardware solutions for new products in the areas of High-gain/Low-noise Analog processing, from the detector to the ADC, or High-Speed Digital design with a good understanding of clock boundaries conditions and asynchronous data collection.
• Development of Analog Data Acquisition hardware using op-amps, active filters and high resolution ADCs.
• Development of Digital Data Acquisition hardware including FPGA based Finite State Machines, interfacing to high-speed mixed signal ASICs and Signal Integrity techniques.
• Experience with MCU system design, including both hardware design and embedded software design.
• Experience with various FPGA families, FPGA design suites and simulation tools, including (but not limited to) Xilinx and Lattice.
• Proficient experience with Altium Designer Schematic Capture and PCB Layout design suite.
• Motivated self-starter with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Hardware debugging experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, etc.
• Strong communication skills, including proficient writing and presentation skills.
• Participate-in a multi-functional engineering team environment to develop and integrate hardware, software and networking technology into new products and systems.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple corporate functions including business, engineering, operations and manufacturing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of product development cycle and release to production of new products.
• Hands-on experience designing, prototyping, debugging and testing of digital/analog electronics.
• Experience with high-voltage (8kV) board design and interfacing with digital control systems.
• Knowledge of Ion Mobility Spectrometry (A PLUS).