Senior Electrical Engineer

Digital Concepts (DCI) was founded in St. Louis, MO in 1990 and specializes in smart control systems, primarily in the fitness industry. We are a family of design and engineering champions that lead in every market we serve worldwide. Guided by our mission and values, we are a People First® company, united in our pursuit of continuous improvement – personally and professionally. Ours is a culture of respect for each other, our customers, and our products.

In 2020 DCI became part of Pivot International, a global single-source design, development, engineering, and manufacturing company with over 50 years of experience. Pivot provides product development based in the United States and Europe while offering their customers the financial advantages of global tooling, procurement, and manufacturing at their facilities throughout the US, Europe, Mexico, and Asia. Through the Pivot International group of companies, they offer a unique suite of product design services with the expertise to deliver the most effective solutions.

Position Summary

The Senior Electrical Engineer will perform all aspects of electronic design, development, validation and support from product inception through manufacturing. The same individual will be responsible for ensuring the product meets all of the customer's requirements and passes compliance tests. Comfortable working with motors and of-line power supplies. Using a working knowledge of schematic capture, analysis tools/instruments, PCB layout, EMC / Compliance to support new and fielded designs with customers and manufacturing plants.

Primary Duties:Designs, troubleshoots, validates, tests and supports electrical products and systems to ensure the products meet the requirements and quality.Responsible for writing supporting technical reports and documentation in support of the designs.Collaborates with Mechanical, Firmware and Program Managers, as well as other internal and external partners.Ensures the successful design, development, testing and implementation of both product and process changes.Identifies issues and uses problem solving to formulate and implement creative solutions to address electrical safety, EMC requirements, etc.Leads small-scale development efforts and projects including planning, scheduling, and documentation required for design control.Support Manufacturing plants with needed documentation, test equipment, etc. to ensure successful manufacture of the designs and products.

Bonus:4 plus years professional experience with the C programming language.Embedded software development experience with hard real-time requirements.

Education and Work Experience:Bachelors or Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited engineering school.5+ years of practical engineering experience to include the design and development of electronic systems with proven ability to troubleshoot electronic systems.Working knowledge of electronic design principles, analog and digital systems, and PCB manufacturing processes.Experience with 1 to 4hp motor control and motors for Brushed DC, Brushless DC and AC Induction motor.Experience with active and passive Power Factor Correction (PFC).Experience with the design, testing and support of flyback power supplies.Experience with multi-meters, oscilloscopes, power meters, dynamometers, spectrum analyzers, high voltage AC (120Vac and 230Vac) and DC (up to 500Vdc) power supplies.Experience with design for EMI/EMC and UL and CE.Must have proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office applications (including MS Project) and electrical CAD (Altium preferred)