Senior Electronics Desig Engineer

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Job title: Senior Electronics Design Engineer
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Annual Salary: $130,000 - $215,000 per annum
Onsite
 
Company overview & Job Title:
A successful R&D Engineering organisation located in Austin (Texas, USA) who operate in multiple industry leading sectors that include Renewable Energy, Medical, Automotive, Space/Aerospace, Logistics and many more are seeking to hire a new Senior Electronics Design Engineer to join the highly quality and friendly team and business on a permanent basis.
 
Salary on offer:
The annual salary on offer for the successful Senior Electronics Design Engineer is $130,000 - $215,000 per annum, depending on skillset and experience.
 
Summary of the Senior Electronics Design Engineering Role:
The successful Senior Electronics Design Engineer will work on a variety of exciting projects and will be responsible for the full product design lifecycle that will include a mixture of Electronics Hardware Design, PCB Design & Embedded Software Development including working on Microcontrollers.
 
Senior Electronics Design Engineer Key Skills:

5-10+ industry professional experience
Experience with hardware architecture design, component placement, layout, manufacturing test, system bring-up and testing
Electronics Circuit Design (analogue & digital)
PCB Design & Schematic Capture
Experience of PCB CAD Packages – Altium, OrCAD, Mentor Graphics etc
Network interfaces – SPI, I2C, USB, UART, RS232/485, Ethernet, WI-FI, BLE, ZigBee etc 
Embedded Firmware Development – Embedded C, C++
Experience of microcontrollers – ARM Cortex, PIC, STM32
Knowledge and experience of DFM, DFC & EMC
Ability to use test equipment – Oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analysers etc
Practical skills - Prototype (circuit) design, build, testing, debugging, soldering, system fault findingBenefits Package:

401K retirement plan
Equity
Paid time off, paid holidays
Maternity and paternity leave
Health, dental, and eye-care insurance
Access to Employee Assistance Program
Employee discounts and perks program
And many moreIf you are interested in the above all round exciting Senior Electronics Design Engineering postion and think you have the skills required to join the successful company and to progress well, please don’t hesitate to apply and contact Frank Kanjanda on (url removed) or call (phone number removed) for more information

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