R&D Sustaining Engineer Electrical

Largo, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 82723 - 130323

Posted on: 06-11-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

CONMED is seeking an R&D Sustaining Engineer - Electrical to join the Engineering team based in Largo FL. The engineer will collaborate with cross functional teams to develop and support advanced surgical devices and powered instruments which are used in orthopedic and arthroscopic surgery products. The engineer will have immediate opportunities to contribute in a fast-paced hands-on and game-changing environment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Detailed design analysis and testing of electrical components and controls with consideration of performance cost manufacturability and reliability.
Embedded software development for medical device firmware components including sensor interfaces communication protocols motor controls etc.
Working with a team to contribute to electronics hardware and firmware designs using a version control system such as Git.
Maintaining legacy codebase projects developed over time by multiple contributors.
General design activities such as requirements management materials and component selection Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and tolerance analyses.
Develop Analyze and optimize medical instrument firmware/software and troubleshoot failure modes.
Drive sustaining engineering activities and continuous improvement of existing products and production equipment as well as some support for new product development.
Assist with designing and updating electronic circuit schematics PCB layouts and BOMs and make design decisions based on electronic component specification comparisons.

Required Qualification:

Bachelors degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
5 years of experience in R&D engineering within a medical instruments or other regulated industry (aerospace automotive) and experience in analog and digital designs with the ability to troubleshoot to the component level.

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong balance of theoretical and practical experience. Must be hands on in an electronics lab environment and have experience using basic test equipment
Experience with software and hardware motor control for brushless motors and analog sensors
Understanding of control theory and experience generating control algorithms; real-time control functionality implementation in C/C;
Knowledge of FDA and ISO guidelines for the development of medical devices
Experience with Version Control (such as Git) Issue Tracking (such as Jira) Eclipse based IDEs (such as MCUxpresso) and Requirements Management tools (such as ReqView) is a plus.
Working knowledge/experience with CAD tools such as Altiumlayout logic experience is preferred
Working knowledge of analog and digital electrical engineering signals and measurements

Expected Travel 0-20%

This position is not eligible for employer-visa sponsorship

Disclosure as required by applicable law the annual salary range for this position is $82723 to 130323. The actual compensation may vary based on geographic location work experience education and skill level. The salary range is CONMEDs good faith belief at the time of this posting.

This job posting is anticipated to close on December 15 2025. We may however extend this time period in which case the posting will remain available on . Please submit your application as soon as possible as we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis as we receive them.

Benefits:

CONMED offers a wide array of benefits to fit your unique needs. Visit our Benefits Page for more information.

Competitive compensation
Excellent healthcare including medical dental vision and prescription coverage
Short & long term disability plus life insurance -- cost paid fully by CONMED
Retirement Savings Plan (401K) -- CONMED matches your contributions dollar for dollar with the potential for up to 7% per pay period
Employee Stock Purchase Plan -- allows stock purchases at discounted price
Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate level courses

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