Electrical Engineer

Electrical Engineer AML Group

The AML Story

Weve come a long way. AML has 52 years of experience designing and building oceanographic instrumentation and we have clocked consistent year-on-year growth of greater than 15%. We have customers on all seven continents. We have a 70 person team of employees that care deeply about customer our market we are known for two things: 1) Going to the ends of the earth to make our customers successful; and 2) Bringing fresh ideas to an established market.

Earlier this year we were acquired by Union Park Capital. Our mission To drive the success of Union Parks marine technology thesis. AML is the operating foundation of that thesis and our focus is on growing the core business while carefully extending our solution set via acquisition. We anticipate dramatic growth and significant change in the next 3 to 5 years.

How we Operate

At AML we do things a bit differently. Think daily huddles. Think Rockefeller Habits Scaling Up and the One Page Plan. Think town hall meetings with on-the-fly Q&A sessions. If you are familiar with these concepts - or they are of interest to you - then you might be a fit for AML. We want people who want to commit their hands their heads and their hearts to their position. You see this commitment in our employee Glass Door rating: an impressive 4.70 on 5.00.

Your Mission

Build electronics that hold up at sea. Youll own electrical design from blank schematic through manufacturing handoff. Your designs should pass stage gates the first time and survive corrosion pressure thermal extremes and EMI in the field. They should ship on the date we committed to at a cost that makes sense at volume. Your biggest contribution will be simple to state: validated electrical designs delivered on commitment.

What Youll be Accountable For

• Owns On-Time On-Budget (Time) Delivery: Is my work on time and to time budget
• Owns First-Pass Design Quality: Do my designs pass stage gates with minimal modification
• Owns Component Selection Discipline: Are my BOM choices defensible on cost lead time and availability
• Owns Tier 2 Engineering Support: When issues arise are escalated NCs and RCAs completed as expected
• Owns Forward Risk: Are electrical-domain risks surfaced before first build
• Owns Transition Package: Does Manufacturing have everything needed to build this in a scalable manner
• Owns Cost of Quality: Do my designs reduce scrap rework and unit cost in production

Some Other Daily Duties

• Aligns with firmware and mechanical counterparts on interfaces and assembly.
• Discussion and conversation with key suppliers.
• Mentors junior engineers and engineering technologists; reviews their designs and provides coaching.
• Conducts technical interviews for new engineering hires; provides written assessment.
• Contributes to AMLs internal design standards design reviews and engineering playbooks beyond own projects.
• Drafts invention disclosures; supports patent application drafting with external counsel when innovation warrants.
• Sporadic support for acquisition diligence on targets design portfolio IP and engineering capability.

Your Skills & Competencies

• Hardware Design Fluency: Schematic and PCB design at depth. DFT DFM HDI working knowledge; first-pass designs delivered with minimal revisions.
• Diagnostic Discipline: Past surface symptoms to underlying mechanism. Comfort with we dont know yet until data lands.
• Manufacturing-Aware Design: Designs that build calibrate and test reliably at production volume. Manufacturing reality considered at the schematic stage.
• Component Selection Sense: Component cost lead time second-source availability obsolescence all visible at design time not after first-build.
• Field-Reliability Sense: Electrical failure modes at sea corrosion pressure thermal EMI sealing. Catches them at design review.
• Cross-Discipline Communication: Firmware mechanical and manufacturing counterparts kept in sync. Interface contracts surfaced at design review not first-build.

Required Qualifications (must have)

• Education: in Electrical Engineering (or related: Electronics Computer Eng Engineering Physics)
• Software: 3 years in Altium Designer (schematic PCB layout library). 3 boards taken from blank schematic to working production prototype with at least one 6 layer mixed-signal design.
• Spec Driven: 3 years inside a technical product company (industrial scientific instrument sensor medical aerospace defense). At least one product shipped to volume as primary or co-primary EE.
• Bench Work: 2 years daily bench work. Fluent with oscilloscope (500 MHz) logic analyzer function generator.
• Total Experience: Minimum 5 years of workplace Electrical Engineering experience

Desired Qualifications (nice to have)

• Harsh Environment: 3 years on field-deployed product in harsh-environment context (marine subsea outdoor industrial aerospace defense). At least one design improvement traceable to a field RCA they led.
• Systems Integration: 2 years multi-product platform / systems integration work sub-systems shared across SKUs (power comms sensor frontends). System-level integration testing experience.
• Precision Analog: Sensor-frontend or precision-analog design experience low-noise amplifiers 16-bit ADC interfacing analog conditioning.
• Additional Design Experience: Experience with multiple 8 layer mixed-signal designs with RF. PLC-based control system knowledge also desirable.
• Programming: Experience in embedded C projects.
• Low Voltage Power Systems: Experience with low power systems in remote environments.

Posted Compensation Range

Total cash compensation (base bonus CAD full-time): $87500 $104000

How to Apply

Please send your complete history to

IMPORTANT: In your cover letter please:

1. speak to what youd do in your first 100 days in the role;
2. identify the 3 most impactful professional lessons youve learned with specific examples from your career; and
3. name your personal core values along with relevant examples of how youve applied each value to guide professional decisions.

All applicants must have pre-existing authorization to work in Canada.