Electrical Engineer

AMETEK PDS is seeking an energetic, innovative, electrical engineer to join our exceptional and growing engineering team.  We design advanced, high-reliability, aircraft power distribution systems.  While we are laser focused on quality and reliability, we strive to maintain a culture that promotes creativity, innovation, comradery, and fun!

Responsibilities:

• Provides design leadership, coaching, and support in the effective use of engineering practices to analyze, specify, design, document, and test products
• Performs detailed electronic design, troubleshooting, validation, and qualification of power, analog, and digital circuits including microprocessor and EPLD-based systems design
• Utilizing digital skills to produce the required Built-In-Testing coverage and achieve the data rates and responsiveness required to interrupt faults and report information to the cockpit
• Regularly interface with other engineering disciplines, both local and remote, to perform development and design validation activities
• Supports manufacturing activities during prototype builds, executing startup and DVT testing of new designs, and the completion of detailed FTA and FMECA analysis.
• Provides technical product support and troubleshooting as necessary to manufacturing, customers and end users
• Leverages knowledge of aircraft electrical system concepts and aerospace industry standards to develop system architectures
• Researches, recommends, and develops technologies, processes, and methods to meet both customer and AMETEK goals
• Analyzes and decomposes customer requirements into design requirements while ensuring compliance with safety, redundance, and reliability requirements
• Responsible for the high-level coordination of cross-functional engineering teams during all phases of system integration testing
• Prepares technical proposals and cost estimates

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of 5-10yrs of relevant engineering design work experience
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and to reduce costs. The successful candidate must be able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.
• Experience designing analog, digital, microprocessor, and high-power AC/DC circuits
• A track record of on-time delivery of project milestones
• Ability to produce accurate, detailed electronic schematics
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, dataloggers, analyzers, programmable waveform generators, power supplies, and programmable loads
• Ability to write technical requirements
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Positive, can-do attitude
• Great communication and documentation skills

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Airborne electronic hardware development experience using DO-160 and DO-254.
• Experience with one or more of the following:  I2C, SPI, RS485, CANBus, ARINC 429
• Schematic capture using Altium
• Some programming experience preferred. (C, C++, C#, Python, Visual Basic, or other)
• Requirements capture using DOORS
• Familiarity with ARP-4754A