Senior Electrical Design Engineer (5628)
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Overview
Job Description
Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world's most innovative companies to create a more connected world?
Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities.
The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns.
We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you're a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you're new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career.
Position Overview
The Sr. Electrical Design Engineer is responsible for electrical design of next generation high reliability undersea and terminal based network elements for SubCom. The principal job activity provides novel circuit designs, including analog and digital circuits that may involve microcontrollers and FPGAs, as well as other electro-optic components like photo diodes, modulators, EDFAs, VOAs and lasers. This job function works within a team of outstanding electrical, mechanical, optical, firmware, and reliability engineers to design, prototype, qualify and transfer to production various high reliability fault tolerant circuit boards that will operate within SubCom Terminal or Undersea equipment.
Responsibilities
- Conducts analog and digital circuit design and simulation
- Selects suitable electrical circuit components and helps maintain component libraries
- Interacts with key component suppliers, distributors, and application engineers
- Collaborates with PCBA CAD designers to generate PCBA design files
- Leads and participates in design and requirements reviews
- Plans, documents, and executes the design verification testing for new products
- Leads hands-on experimental work on prototype components, circuits, and assemblies
- Develops GUI based test software tools for testing new circuit boards and components
- Provides firmware requirements and supports integration testing of firmware on new circuit assemblies
- Delivers factory testing requirements and supports early factory testing efforts
- Initiates and develops relationships with internal partners and external suppliers.
- Consistently ensures that business is always conducted with integrity and behaviors that align with SubCom policies, procedures, and core values.
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