Senior Electrical Engineer

Headquartered in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, Codonics designs, manufactures, sells and supports medical imaging and information management devices. Our radiology and operating room centric products can be found in thousands of hospitals and imaging centers worldwide. Codonics is an engineering focused company that uses cutting edge technology to design and build innovative, world-class medical devices. Our award winning products and business practices have recently been recognized at the local and national level…we are making a difference.

Philosophy:

The electrical engineering group at Codonics is a multidisciplinary entity that is involved in a broad range of product design disciplines. Work is primarily focused on electronics design and integration. However, EEs are often required to aid or guide mechanical and software design efforts and to provide system-level architectural design and integration. Electrical Engineering is often called upon to provide system-level debugging of complex electrical, mechanical, and software-based embedded systems. The electrical engineering group is also heavily tasked with ongoing product support through management of obsolescence. As a part of electronics design, the electrical engineering group is typically tasked to write any low-level firmware as well as code for programmable logic devices when these are required.

Job Summary:

Senior Electrical Engineers at Codonics perform design, development, test, debug, and ongoing quality assurance of innovative electro-mechanical medical products. The Senior Electrical Engineer provides expertise in all areas of electrical engineering including digital and analog design and systems integration. He/She also provides system-level leadership in software, firmware, mechanics, physics, and other sciences as required. He / She mentors and leads junior members of the department. The Senior Electrical Engineer has ownership of significant pieces of new designs and current products and works independently in his/her areas of expertise.

Duties and Responsibilities (subject to change):

• Performs system-level specification and architectural design of new products and solutions.
• Performs new product development and design to meet input requirements.
• Performs design verification through analysis and empirical testing. Performs or specifies all testing required to verify specification conformance and robustness of a new design.
• Works with Manufacturing to develop systems that are highly manufacturable.
• Works with suppliers to develop custom components, improve manufacturing processes, and to solve vendor design/performance problems.
• Responsible for specifying methods, procedures and tools necessary for the inspection and manufacture of the product. Develops tools to aid Manufacturing and Inspection.
• Performs risk analyses.
• Supports existing products and manufacturing through debugging, failure analysis, and management of component obsolescence.
• Works with Engineering, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Quality Assurance, and suppliers to resolve product failure or quality issues that arise during the life of products.
• Provides leadership and professional guidance to junior engineering personnel. Conducts peer design reviews.
• Provides limited project management as needed.
• Develops patent applications for new inventions and technology.
• Keeps abreast of industry technology.
• Some domestic and international travel required.

Required Skills:

• Significant experience as a design engineer working with many of the following technologies:
  • oDigital electronics design / computer engineering
  • oAnalog and mixed-signal electronics design
  • oPCB design and layout
  • oSensor systems
  • oFPGA programming, VHDL
  • oEmbedded systems design
  • oFirmware development
  • oControl of electromechanical systems
  • oElectromagnetic compliance: including board and system-level design for EMC; EMC test, debug, and remediation
  • oSafety: including design for safety; knowledge of regulatory and industry standard requirements for safety and safety marking
  • oElectronics manufacturing and fabrication processes
• Software skills:
  • oSignificant embedded programming experience
  • oLinux operating systems
  • oC and assembly programming languages
  • oUnix and Windows scripting languages
  • oKnowledge of sound software design practices
• Strong fundamentals in the following:
  • oMechanics and mechanical systems, statics, dynamics
  • oPhysics
  • oProperties of materials

• A strong designer effective at developing optimal system-level solutions.
• Shows good engineering judgment. Scales designs appropriately.
• Solves challenging technical and interdisciplinary problems in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Regularly finds the root cause of failures or design problems.
• Technically adaptable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Education and Experience:

• BSEE or MSEE
• 5+ years experience in electrical engineering design on embedded electro-mechanical products.