Sr Principal Electrical Engineer- Hardware Engineering

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Spectrum Safety Solutions

With approximately 1,400 employees operating in more than 20 countries, Spectrum Safety Solutions is a global leader in fire detection and suppression solutions for high-hazard applications across verticals such as critical infrastructure, oil and gas, marine and clean energy. Our global team leverages strong customer relationships across four recognized brands, Det-Tronics, Marioff, Autronica, and Fireye, to deliver differentiated lifecycle solutions and advance growth across key segments. Carved out from Carrier’s Fire & Security business in July 2024, Spectrum Safety Solutions is now a privately held company under the ownership of Sentinel Capital Partners.

Det-Tronics

We make the world a better place to live! At Spectrum’s Det-Tronics, we build and maintain comfortable, accessible, efficient, healthy, safe, secure, and sustainable environments. Det-Tronics is a $180M technologically innovative, projects-based global brand protecting customers in many challenging environments with high end flame and gas detection products and systems. Det-Tronics is a part of Spectrum Safety Solutions and has a global footprint with manufacturing sites in the U.S. and sales presence in all key geographies.

About this role

The Sr Principal Electrical Engineer leads and manages hardware aspects of products throughout their entire lifecycle from architecture, planning, design through verification and validation. Provides electrical-design technical leadership for teams in cross-functional new product development and sustaining engineering projects. Hardware design development is for products based on different complex sensing technologies (e.g. Optical, Electrochemical) and communication technologies (wired and wireless).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead hardware strategic planning, concept , architecture definition and translation to system/subsystem/component definitions, with a focus on reliability, safety, and sustainability.
• Provide technical leadership to other electrical engineering and project team members.
• Expertise in electrical circuit design methodologies that meet high levels of EMC performance.
• Develop and write sub-system engineering requirements and rationales that align with customer and system requirements and regulatory standards.
• Work closely with Embedded Firmware Engineers to develop and execute strategies for Hardware/Firmware integration and diagnostic coverage.
• Develop & implement new or updated electronic designs that meet or exceed all customer, marketing, and regulatory requirements.
• Assess the impact of making changes to existing product electrical components, subcircuits, PCBs, and PCBAs.
• Author and lead through to implementation engineering change requests, and engineering & manufacturing change orders.
• Complete computer assisted design (CAD) modeling & simulation, risk analyses (e.g. DFMEA), subsystem requirements capture, schematic capture, board layouts and board mechanical fit analyses of designs.
• Develop or support development of test cases and traceability from requirements.
• Build and test designs from bench-level to formal verification and validation level using in-house test setups or at 3rd party test facilities.
• Support product quality investigations and root cause analyses.
• Follow development processes, lead & document technical reviews, and properly document, test, and control work deliverables.
• Provide work breakdown plans and task estimates in support of project estimates and management.
• Use Agile methodology for hardware development with clear communication to project stakeholders with metrics to track and report progress.
• Identify project risks and provide practical proposals to close gaps and mitigate risks.
• Participate in roadmap and resource planning.
• Support multiple product development programs at a given time.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 15-20+ years of professional work experience.
• At least 10 years developing mixed signal PCB/PCBA designs.
• Led the hardware development of at least one product from inception through market launch following a structured development process.

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree .
• FPGA and Analog circuit design experience.
• Expertise in electrical circuit design and layout implementation that meet high levels of EMC performance.
• Embedded Systems design using MCUs/MPUs connecting to peripheral components providing sensing technologies, communication interfaces, and user interfaces (e.g. displays, snap domes, touchscreens, LEDs).
• Experience with Design for Manufacturability and Design for Test of circuit assemblies.
• Platformed product development experience.
• Regulated product experience (medical, automotive, Industrial Life Safety, SIL2).
• Experienced with FMEAs and developing control techniques to mitigate risks.
• Excellent team leadership, communication and organizational skills.
• Self-motivated and demonstrated ability to lead process improvement activities.