Electrical Engineer Associate
$55,000–$99,000 year
HybridFort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United StatesHybridFull Time$55,000–$99,000 yearEntry LevelEnterprise
Full TimeEntry LevelEnterprise
Job Summary
Support analog and digital circuit design, schematic capture, and PCB layout under senior engineering guidance. Perform prototype bring-up, troubleshooting, and qualification activities while creating design documentation for manufacturing. Execute measurements using laboratory equipment, analyze results, and document findings to support root cause analysis and failure investigations. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to complete project tasks, manage workflows, and communicate technical roadblocks to maintain schedule.
Required Qualifications
- Entry-level position
- Prior internship, cooperative education, senior design, or project experience involving electronic hardware development
- Foundational experience designing, assembling, bringing up, debugging, or testing electronic circuits or printed circuit boards
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills, including issue identification, laboratory measurement, analysis, documentation, and development of recommendations with guidance
- Ability to produce accurate results in a collaborative and dynamic engineering environment
- Technical Depth: Understands and applies foundational analog and digital circuit concepts
- Performs basic circuit analysis and simulation
- Reads and creates schematics
- Works within established practices and clearly defined assignments
- Learns and adopts new tools, technologies, and engineering methods
- Incorporates technical review feedback into completed work
- Uses common laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, power supplies, signal generators, and logic analyzers
- Methodically gathers measurements, analyzes results, and documents findings while following safe laboratory practices
- Breaks assigned work into manageable steps
- Confirms priorities and expectations with the project lead
- Provides status updates
- Communicates potential roadblocks
- Executes individual tasks, deadlines, and deliverables with supervision
- Collects information from appropriate sources
- Helps determine where an issue occurred
- Supports root cause analysis
- Develops recommendations with guidance from senior engineers, managers, or project leads
- Works effectively within a small cross-functional team of multidisciplinary engineers
- Communicates technical questions and findings clearly
- Listens to feedback
- Participates in team activities
- Shares information and documentation to support the broader organization
- Creates clear and accurate engineering documentation, including design files, bills of materials, test instructions, test results, investigation summaries, and technical reports
- Works with firmware, software, mechanical, test, manufacturing, compliance, product, component engineering, and supply-chain teams as needed to complete assigned work
- Ability to travel to other company, supplier, or manufacturing locations as business needs require
- On-site presence in Ft. Wayne, IN
- Hybrid work model
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
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