Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world's most innovative companies to create a more connected world?
Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities.
The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed, and maintained to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns.
We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you're a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you're new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career.
Position Overview:
The Electrical Design Engineer is responsible for electrical design and verification of next generation high reliability undersea and terminal based network elements for SubCom. This job function works within a team of outstanding electrical, mechanical, optical, firmware, and reliability engineers to design, prototype, qualify and transfer to production various high reliability fault tolerant circuit boards that will operate within SubCom Terminal or Undersea equipment.
The position will report to the Director of Terminal Subsystem Design within SubCom R&D.
Essential Job Functions, Responsibilities, Duties
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Contributes in the development of new circuits designs and schematics
Selects suitable electrical circuit components and helps maintain component libraries
Interacts with key component suppliers, distributors, and application engineers
Collaborates with seasoned PCBA designers to generate PCBA design files
Leads and participates in design and requirements reviews
Plans, documents, and executes the design verification testing for new products
Leads hands-on experimental work on prototype components, circuits, and assemblies
Develops GUI based test software tools for testing new circuit boards and components
Delivers factory testing requirements and supports early factory testing efforts
Initiates and develops relationships with internal partners and external suppliers
Consistently ensures that business is conducted with integrity and behaviors that align with SubCom policies, procedures, and core values.
Qualifications
Strong interest in electrical design and using analytical skills to tackle challenging assignments
Strong interest in learning circuit techniques that pass environmental, safety, EMI and EMC testing
Strong interest in working with circuit board prototypes, electrical components, electrical circuit test instruments and measurement techniques
Strong technical presentation and writing skills
Some experience with one or more of the following areas is extremely desirable
Design and testing of analog and digital circuits and schematics
Design of op-amp and transistor circuits for detection/amplification/filtering of < 1GHz) signals
Design of analog and digital control loops, with DACs, ADCs, logic devices processors, and with use of I2C, SPI, RS-232 buses
Design of transimpedance and log amp circuits for use with photodiode detection of optical signals
Design with schematic capture tools and standard methods for design of PCB assemblies
Familiarity with PCB fabrication and assembly processes
Familiarity with developing test procedures and writing Manufacturing Testing Requirements
Familiarity with developing products using a formal product realization process
Familiarity with selection of circuit board components based on reliability, availability, cost, performance
Familiarity with designing experiments, evaluating circuit performance, analyzing data
Familiarity with troubleshooting, using experimental and laboratory skills
Familiarity with CVI or other software for creating GUIs to help with DVT and firmware integration
Familiarity with peer design and DFMEA reviews
Familiarity with OrCad, Labview, Spice/Pspice, C/C++, Python
Familiarity with writing firmware requirements and integrating firmware into a new circuit assembly
Familiarity with fiber optic components such as couplers, WDMs, filters, photodiodes, lasers, modulators, EDFAs
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Articulates thoughts and ideas clearly, concisely, and persuasively. Writes English well.
