Staff Electrical Engineer

Job Number: 2832

External Description:

Carrier’s Kidde Detection Technology is searching for a Staff-Level Electrical Engineer to join the design team located in Colorado Springs, CO. In this position, you will have responsibility for new projects that challenge you on all levels, including primary responsibility for defining device calibration equipment, fixtures, and methods to ensure every unit is built and tested within a statistical confidence level that meets or exceeds current and future certification requirements. You will be given the opportunity to grow and develop your engineering skills as we invite you to assess how calibration is performed today and innovatively define and implement improvements on those critical processes.

We are seeking hardworking individuals who take pride in developing products that save people’s lives! In addition, you will enjoy close collaboration with like-minded teams focused on protecting customers and delivering business goals to advance our future success.

We are seeking individuals who are:

• Detail-oriented, intuitive and sticklers for doing it right the first time
• Able to demonstrate their ability to succeed in a complex engineering environment providing seasoned leadership experience to share career knowledge gained and help avoid design pitfalls.
• Passionate about delivering high-quality, low-cost design for consumers that save lives
• Innovative thinkers, always seeking the next technical challenge to accomplish.
• Critical thinkers and successful problem solvers; highly adept at using sound technical logic and detailed statistical data analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of primary and alternative solutions.
• Possess very strong analog as well as AC and DC power supply design skills
• Amazing troubleshooters with efficient and highly effective debugging skills enabling fast root cause determination
• Committed to team success with constructive and collaborative interpersonal skills in a team environment leading to the successful solution of multi-disciplinary design challenges
• Able to manage multiple tasks concurrently, each with demanding timelines while managing and mentoring junior engineers as customer and business goals require
• Highly analytical and avid problem solvers who “speak with data” and are openly willing to learn and share knowledge to advance the team effectiveness.
• Responsible, willing to take full ownership of their work and contributions to the team

Key Responsibilities:

• Define, document and control calibration equipment to ensure carbon monoxide, smoke, indoor air quality and other sensing technologies are consistently and reliably produced within the statistical product requirements maintaining 100% quality and certification adherence.
• Participate with the team in system design and innovation, prototyping and transitioning to production taking ownership of major portions of the project or the entire project.
• Serve as a technical lead member of a team tasked with developing smoke, gas, and heat alarms.
• Define and control new calibration fixtures that simulate smoke levels and particulates and develop test plans for sensor systems in partnership with stakeholders
• Design electronics to meet the functional specifications within cost targets, oversee prototyping and testing for compliance and robustness.
• Perform analysis and simulation on circuit designs prior to assembly to ensure design goals will be met i.e. meet or exceed all design requirements.
• Provide experienced insights into possible design opportunities and limitations.
• Develop diagnostic techniques and provide support to production engineers tasked with transitioning products to very high-volume manufacturing.
• Works autonomously with limited oversight while managing large and complex projects and process improvements.
• Professionally communicate with parties within and outside of the NPD EE department serving as a strong representative for our team and company.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Physics from an ABET accredited college or university
• 7+ years of successful design experience designing and analyzing sensing systems comprised of optical components (LEDS, Photodiodes) and/or light scattering inference methods
• 1+ year of experience with Matlab script writing for automation of data analysis and reporting

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MS (strongly preferred)
• Strong design and development skills in mixed signal digital and analog circuits with a proven track record of successfully launching products.
• Advanced Minitab (or other statistical analysis tool) skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Innovative out-of-box thinker with a high aptitude and preference for data collection and analysis automation
• Extensive, proven experience in statistical analysis, defining production control limits for key product performance characteristics to achieve desired production quality within defined CPKs.
• Ability to design low power products capable of achieving very long life with non-replaceable batteries.
• Skillfully and physically capable of using electrical engineering tools for debugging circuits and modifying surface mount assemblies.

Job Number: 30118387

Community / Marketing Title: Staff Electrical Engineer

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