Job Abstract

10x is looking for a Staff Electrical Engineer to support the design and development of our current and future platforms. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Electrical Engineering of automation and life sciences product development. Demonstrated hands-on experience with analog and digital board design from conception to production. Previous experience in electrical architecture design of instruments which includes motion, fluid handling, sensor and pressure controls are a must.

What you will be doing:

• Hands on leadership of individual design projects from architectural design, component selection, schematic, layout, build, bring up, test and successful release to manufacturing.

• Determine, define and design the system and subsystems approaches to meet project and program design goals, requirements and schedules. Review customer requirements and internal product requirements and work with a broader team to drive toward robust and cost effective solutions.
• Actively bring-up, troubleshoot and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members (mechanical, firmware, software, microfluidics, system, & quality) to solve complex, system level design challenges and contribute to overall embedded systems architecture design
• Utilize deep understanding of signal integrity: Proper layout and grounding techniques that allow for the coexistence of high-speed digital signaling and high current, high slew rate, precision analog circuitry.
• Develop key relationships with internal design teams as well subcontractors to plan comprehensive product strategies based on future technologies.
• Interact as a technical and market expert with engineering teams and customers to achieve product goals.
• Work within design controls, compliance testing, FCC, UL, CSA, FMEA, CE, ISO, and other regulatory requirements.
• Provide excellent communication of technical and program level issues as they arise to support the needs of the entire product development team.
• Participate in design reviews: PCB, Analog, Digital, FPGA, Mechanical, and System.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
• Technical experience in developing and supporting electrical designs and experience with CAD schematic and layout Software.
• Hardware design experience using key interfaces/subsystems (e.g. microprocessors, memory, USB, Ethernet, i2c, CAN, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc., Excellent PCB bring up and debugging skills, Nice to have: experience with embedded FW/SW for microcontrollers.
• Hands on experience for PCB assembly, SMD soldering and rework, cable assembly and using various lab equipment (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, power analyzer, spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, etc.).
• Experience running designs through DFM, DFT and DFA review.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of overall system level design approaches.
• Experience working with SW teams to develop work plans and interface requirements between Hardware and Software.
• Experience designing/driving development and manufacturing test plans.
• Solid knowledge of compliance standards, EMC and safety certifications as well as reliability test. Experience in mitigating ESD, EMI, noise, and distortion to electrical signals in complex systems
• Experience with a variety of sensor technologies (thermal, optical, position, pressure, flow).
• Experience with Altium electrical design software is highly desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required – must be able to write clear protocols, reports, papers, proposals, etc., and efficiently discuss the same with other scientists, engineers, and customers.