Job Title:  Senior Electrical Engineer

Location: 

Oak Ridge, TN, US, 37831

Business Unit:  Advanced Measurement Technologies
Posting Date:  Oct 20, 2024
Job Description: 

The Senior Electrical Engineer will be responsible for the electronic design and development of Ortec brand nuclear instrumentation and measurement systems used for radiation detection and radioisotope identification.  The position entails all types of board-level circuit design with an emphasis on FPGA design (board level design and FPGA programming).

 

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • FPGA design utilizing Verilog and/or VHDL together with simulation techniques
  • Conceptualize, design, simulate, implement and validate low noise electronics using analog, digital and FPGA design techniques.
  • Execute feasibility and prototyping, PCB bring-up, debugging, verification testing, and performance characterization of new designs.
  • Support compliance testing and documentation.
  • Provide technical assistance to Manufacturing and Customer Service
  • Team with Marketing to align product design and performance specifications to overall product requirements.
  • Develop and/or implement new technologies to address market opportunities.

 

 

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

  • BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience is required
  • 5-7 years of relevant experience. 

 

QUALIFICATIONS 

Experience with the following a plus:

  • Field programmable gate arrays (board level design and programming)
  • Electronic design and simulation software (Modelsim, etc).
  • Implementation of digital signal processing for systems
  • Digital circuit (logic) design: Microprocessors, Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • MIxed Signal and/or analog circuit design experience including amplifier circuits, active and passive filters, transistor circuits, linear and switching power supplies, impedance matching and transformation and A/D converters.
  • System level software/hardware integration
  • Designing high accuracy and low noise measurement circuits, including component selection, schematic capture, modeling and layout techniques.
  • Designing instrumentation for nuclear measurements. 

 

 

 

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills are required.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced professional environment.
  • Excellent organizational, data collection and presentation skills.
  • Self-motivated, detail-oriented and passion for continuous improvements.
  • Willingness to take on greater technical leadership responsibilities encouraged.

Compensation

Salary Minimum:  Market
Salary Maximum:  Market
Incentive:  No

Disclaimer: Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of this posting.  The actual salary offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market / business considerations, and geographic location.

AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales over $7.0 billion.

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