Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems

About Us

Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation a family owned business for over 75 years takes pride in powering progress in health security and quality of life. We are key partners with the worlds leading medical devices semiconductor scientific analytics and industrial systems manufacturers. When they want to push the limits of whats possible with high voltage applications they turn to us to make it happen.

While Spellman is not a household name our products are used to make and often power many of the most advanced technologies that make modern life possible. With design and manufacturing sites in North America Europe and Asia we have become the preferred provider of high voltage power solutions for OEMs pushing the boundaries of technology around the world by designing and producing the products they need to power progress.

About The Role:

As a part of our continuous focus on offering high performance and cuttingedge products and solutions to our markets the field of advanced power conversion power management and controls embedded systems is of strategic and critical importance. In this context Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp. is seeking a highly talented motivated creative and experienced engineering leader in the field of embedded systems in the field of Power Electronics Power Management and Digital Controls to include development testing and validation.

For this highly skilled and handson technical expert role our expectations are:

• to focus on the design development implementation testing and documentation of complex firmware and software to be used in high voltage power supplies in all our markets and applications of interest
• interfacing and supporting our global engineering community as needed.

Further in this role soft skills coaching and mentoring as well as a deep understanding of RTOS and bare metal firmware are all key requirements to be successful in this role.

What You Will Do:

Technical:

• Project Planning for firmware/software development needs
• Handson support/leadership of firmware and software design for sophisticated high voltage power supplies (HVPS). Languages used (C Verilog VHDL Assembly C C# VB6 Java WPF and Linux) and firmware development based on RTOS.
• Interface with peers in the Engineering team to implement features desired as described in product and application requirements.
• Lead/Support the preparation of all technical documentation such as circuit diagrams test reports manuals technical reports release documentation etc.
• Support the review and interpretation of internal/external customer requirements
• Support the improvement of the FW and SW release process to include the use of revision control systems such as Tortoise SVN
• Continuous Research of latest concepts as it pertains to Embedded Systems: Development including DSPs MCUs FPGAs CPLDs SOM.

Leadership and managerial:

• Provide local and daytoday leadership expertise and coaching to younger Embedded Systems & Controls engineers
• Interface with the companys global engineering sales & Marketing operations and quality teams among others in support of common projects and overall company strategy
• Support the development of Embedded Systems Engineering strategies for current and future product and technology development projects based on the companys overall objectives
• Drive and support an engineering culture of high performance and provide the corresponding role model through leadership by example
• Take a handson approach to leading Embedded Systems projects with a focus on comprehensive requirements analysis definition of the appropriate technical approach and solution project planning and management and risk assessment and mitigation.
• Drive an efficient lean and risk managementbased execution of product design and development projects ranging from new product and technology development to existing product sustainability (to include performance quality reliability and cost improvements)
• Participate in and contribute to strategic discussions regarding products markets and technology/product roadmapping.
• Review product design for compliance with engineering principles company standards customer contract requirements and applicable specifications (industry standards and homologation requirements).
• Lead and support product development design reviews and provide applicable approval for design changes specifications and Software/Firmware releases among others per Spellman engineering product development processes.
• Drive for timely and onbudget project execution

What you Need:

• Bachelors degree (Masters degree preferred) in Electrical Engineering and 10 years demonstrated experience in handson product and technology development in the power conversion and management (power electronics field). High voltage power conversion technology experience is very highly desired.
• 7 years leading project development teams with a preference for direct exposure to a manufacturing environment and demonstrated technical leadership abilities
• Design and Development of FPGA code using Verilog or VHDL
• Development of digital systems that include ADCs DACs UARTs RS485 RS232 embedded Ethernet USB microcontrollers DSPs RAM SRAM EEPROM switching lowvoltage power supplies pulsewidth modulation devices discrete logic and FPGAs
• Use emulators debuggers JTAG integrated development environments and other design and verification tools
• Expertise with advanced engineering tools such as: MatlabSimulink PSIM and others.
• Work with product requirements to develop digital design architecture that will provide the necessary functionality
• Communicate with and support analog engineers project leaders project managers manufacturing and test groups
• Develop design documentation that can be presented to the customer community
• Create programming procedures
• Create ECNs and perform change support and version control of firmware and software
• Perform design verification testing and documentation
• R&D new products / technologies
• Commitment to fostering high performance and an environment of open collaboration and teamwork
• Flexible customer focused orientation with an eye on successful and seamless project execution as well as on the strategic needs of the company
• Passionate about collaborating with other company teams in a multidisciplinary environment (sales and marketing operations quality supply chain) customersetc. to drive a continuous and strong focus on value creation
• Excellent project management skills and knowledge of other engineering design and analysis tools in the field of power conversion power management digital and analog control
• Willingness to travel both national and international

Our good faith estimate for the salary for this position is $141000$191000. Exact compensation may vary based on skills experience and other factors.

This position requires onsite presence at Spellman High Voltage Headquarters in Hauppauge NY.

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