Electrical Engineer

Smiths Interconnect, is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance interconnect solutions. Our products are used in mission-critical applications across industries such as aerospace, defense, telecommunications, and industrial markets. At Smiths Interconnect, we are committed to innovation, quality, and providing cutting-edge solutions that connect the world’s most demanding systems.

Smiths Interconnect is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, to help create a safer, more efficient and productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defense, space & aerospace and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs c.16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries. 

Work in an integrated process team environment, with technical responsibility for all of the following, regarding analog and digital hardware:  research, architecture trades, estimating recurring and non-recurring hardware and activities, analysis, proposals, selection, development, prototyping, verification, customer support, manufacturing support, and sustainment.

• Have technical responsibility for all aspects of the analog and digital hardware within our products, inclusive of hardware description in firmware, exclusive of RF/uW/mmW hardware and embedded and application software
• Participate in the entire product lifecycle for bespoke electronics modules, subsystems, and systems for the aerospace and defense market, including for RADAR, EW, SIGINT, comm, and satcom.
• Work in an integrated process team (IPT) environment, along with program management, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, and other engineering disciplines
• Perform all of the following activities for analog and digital hardware:  research, architecture trades, estimate recurring and non-recurring hardware and activities, analyze circuits, write technical proposals, select integrated circuits, design printed circuit boards, prototyping, verification, customer support, manufacturing support, and sustainment.

• Expertise with component-level design, analysis, prototyping, and verification of highly complex analog and digital circuitry
• Experience with hardware implementation of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion
• Experience with signaling interfaces such as RS-232/422/485, TTL, LVTTL, CMOS, LVCMOS, LVDS, SERDES
• Experience with schematic creation and layout of multi-layer mixed signal printed circuit boards (PCBs)
• Proficiency with component-level simulation tools such as PSPICE
• Proficiency with a hardware description language, preferably VHDL
• Experience with EMI filtering and transient voltage protection
• Experience selecting components and designing solutions for DC-to-DC power conversion and linear voltage regulation
• Experience selecting interface signaling components, line receivers and drivers, microcontrollers, and PLDs

Experience:

• 5 to 10 years of progressively increasing experience and responsibility for analog and digital hardware development

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE)

Travel:

• up to 10 % required or as business needs require; predominately within continental U.S.

Security:

• Must be a US Citizen, with ability to hold US DoD security clearance

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Why Smiths Interconnect?

• Global Impact: As part of Smiths Group, a global engineering leader, you’ll be working on ground-breaking technologies that make a difference in industries that are shaping the future.
• Career Growth: Opportunities for professional development and career progression across Smiths Interconnect and the wider Smiths Group.
• Innovative Culture: Join a collaborative and innovative team, where your ideas and contributions are valued and rewarded.
• Competitive Package: We offer a competitive salary, benefits package, and performance-related incentives

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

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