Senior Electrical Designer
LabsCubed
Job Functions:
Other Engineering
Employment Types:
Full-time
Locations:
Kitchener, ON, Canada
Compensation:
70,000 – 95,000 CAD per year
Posted on:
03/10/2022
The Role
Blinking lights! An exhilarating feeling that courses through your veins as the design you’ve been working on comes to life. A power system, an RF transceiver, or a motor controller; it doesn’t matter, you feel pride in a job well done and the feeling of one more design under your belt. LabsCubed wants a passionate electrical designer like you to help in building the robotics that automate the future of material development. You’ll be part of a multi-disciplinary team iterating on fast prototypes through the design life-cycle to make the award winning hardware our customers love. You’ll be responsible for:
- Contributing to the effort at all stages of design and prototyping: initial concept development, rapid and iterative design and testing efforts, manufacturing of engineering prototypes and demonstration to customers and investors;
- Designing, developing, integrating, and testing of system components, including PCBA, cables and connectors, analog and digital sensors, and actuators
- Sourcing components and interfacing with suppliers;
- Writing microcontroller code and firmware for bring-up and system integration
- Collaborating with system, mechanical, firmware, network and full stack engineers in designing connectivity of all functional components to our cloud infrastructure
Qualifications
- Master’s, Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent;
- 7+ years of industrial experience, or equivalent academic experience, in electrical systems design and product development, preferably with a focus on robotics/automation systems
- Expert knowledge of Altium designer
- Exceptional electrical and firmware debugging skills including use of JTAG, serial ports, oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
- Expert knowledge of designing point-of-load, motor drive systems, transceiver and SoM/SoC integration
- Solid knowledge of current state-of-the-art technologies in ICs, sensors, actuators
- Experience designing to global EMC standards such as IC, FCC, and CISPR
- Experience designing to global safety standards (eg. CE, OHSA)
- Expert knowledge designing for transient immunity, ESD and surge protection
- Experience developing firmware for microcontrollers; STM32 considered an asset.
- Knowledge of electronics fabrication and assembly as well as embedded middleware applications and services.
Assets
- Experience with embedded Linux: bootloading, hardware access, drivers, device tree, etc.
- Familiarity integrating video systems including low-level image capture using MIPI-CSI image sensors
- Python and C development experience
- Linux kernel integration