Electrical Design Engineer
$79,000–$119,000 year
On-site · Northfield, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Electrical Design Engineer responsible for design, development, and support of electrical/electronic systems for medical devices across the product lifecycle, including concept development, design implementation, verification/validation, and transfer to manufacturing. Create and evaluate prototypes, generate schematics and PCB layouts, perform bring-up and debugging, drive design transfers, define system requirements, and ensure regulatory compliance and risk management. Collaborate with Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, and suppliers, support system-level integration of hardware and software, and ensure design for manufacturability and traceability throughout design controls and documentation.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
- Work Experience: At least 2 years of experience in product design
- Hands on experience with schematic capture, PCB design, and prototype bring up
- Proficiency in Altium Design or equivalent E-CAD software
- Experience with prototype development, PCB manufacturing, design documentation, and design for manufacturability
- Experience working with embedded systems, including hardware software integration and system debugging
- Demonstrated experience working within a structured product development process, including exposure to design controls, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration
- Preferred: Experience in product design within the medical device industry, including development and launch of Class II devices
- Strong understanding of design controls, risk management (e.g., FMEA), regulatory documentation (DHF, DMR, traceability matrices)
- Familiarity with medical electrical safety, EMC, and compliance testing (IEC 60601, IEC 62304, ISO 14971)
- Experience with embedded firmware/software development or architecture, including requirements definition and verification
- Experience supporting products through manufacturing scale up and sustaining engineering
- Strong technical documentation, communication, and project coordination skills
- Travel up to 10% domestically and internationally
- Regulatory standards including IEC 60601 Series, FDA 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971
- Effective communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional teams
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