Principal, Electrical Design Engineer
Panduit

Job Info

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At Panduit, Our People Make the Difference. We're looking for individuals who share our passion for innovation, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability.

If solving problems for customers and leading the full product life cycle of product development and design sounds like your ideal engineering position, Panduit is looking for a Principal Electrical Engineer like you. As a Principal Electrical Design Engineer at Panduit, you will join a cross-functional team of top-tier engineers dedicated to developing new products and enhancing our existing products to ensure customer satisfaction and meet customer needs. Every day will bring new design and development challenges for you to research, analyze, test, and evaluate. If you're a skilled Electrical Design Engineer ready to use your design and problem-solving strengths in a collaborative growth environment, this could be the perfect career step for you.

Working at our world class Innovation Center in Tinley Park, Illinois, and reporting to the Manager, Engineering, you will utilize your deep circuit design and analysis skills to develop products from concept to implementation. The team develops innovative products for all of the business units in Panduit (Enterprise & Data Center, Industrial Automation and Industrial & Electrical). These products include active safety devices, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, wireless devices with a focus on electronic design and circuit development. Your expertise with circuit design (both analog and digital), schematic capture, circuit prototyping, circuit testing, circuit debugging, coordinating multiple vendors, and interfacing directly with the manufacturing organizations will be critical to your success in this role. We will rely on your skill set to develop, test and verify new designs, implement designs into production, and work with vendors and sourcing to support new product launches and lifecycle activities. Our state-of-the art facilities will provide you with opportunities to see your designs move from concept to production as you solve problems in our customer-focused environment.

What You Will Do

• System Design, circuit Design, schematic capture and prototype electronic products
• Test and verify new designs/concept
• Implement designs into production
• Work with vendors and sourcing to define technical requirements for the product/components
• Create and execute test plans for hardware and software validation
• Design and implement electrical stress tests to ensure the reliability of the product
• Design/define and implement test fixtures to verify the circuit boards' and/or systems' functionality for production testing

What You Will Bring

• BSEE degree (MSEE or higher is a plus preferred)
• 7 or more years of hardware development experience
• Strong analog design expertise
• The ability to work closely with other engineers, lab technicians, product management and customers in a team environment
• Experience with personal computers; MS Word, Excel and Project required
• Microcontroller based hardware design and development experience at the product level
• Digital and Analog (e.g., drivers, power supplies, batteries) hardware design and development experience at the product level
• Working level experience with board support software packages, C, C++, assembly language Manufacturing process experience is a plus (i.e., bringing a product from concept through to volume production)
• Experience in the following areas is required: electronic design and development process, product design and development process, change management system, reliability test, compliance test (performance, environmental and certification), and manufacture test.
• Schematic capture experience is required (Altium Designer is a plus)
• Physical circuit board layout experience (e.g. Altium, OrCAD, Mentor, Cadence Allegro) a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work closely with other engineers, lab technicians, product management and customers in a team environment

What We Can Offer You

• Competitive Total Rewards Program with health and financial benefits
• Flexible work options; this role will require you to be in the office 50% of the time (schedule based on manager's discretion)
• Generous vacation, sick days, holidays, and a volunteer day
• 401K match and profit sharing
• Multiple healthcare options
• Parental leave
• Growth and development opportunities

Join us in building a sustainable and connected world. Apply online to be part of the Panduit team. We're an Equal Opportunity Employer, dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace for all.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Panduit will not sponsor applicants for work visas now or in the future.

Work Shift
Day (United States of America)

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