Marcus Engineering is looking for a Director of Electrical Engineering who will lead the engineering team, as well as providing guidance and mentorship to a team of 3-5 Electrical and Computer Engineers. The Director of Electrical Engineering will be involved in technical sales, interfacing with customers to generate requirements, project structure and budgets, leading the team through execution while assuring on time and on budget delivery and being a key technical contributor to difficult projects
It is expected that the role would be approximately 50% management and leadership with 50% senior design leadership, design contribution, and execution.
Key Skills and Responsibilities:
- Provide Technical and Managerial Leadership to the Engineering Team
- Participate in the project lifecycle from technical sales and quoting through on time, on budget completion
- Strong Leadership Skills
- Excellent technical breadth, and the ability to dig in deep on subjects as required
- Strong Writing skills
- Quoting and managing small to large projects (10s-1000s of hours of execution)
About Marcus Engineering:
At Marcus Engineering we employ bright driven Electrical Engineers and Computer Engineers. We love enthusiastic Makers and Hackers and drive to be the industry’s most prized engineers. Strength and discipline in engineering fundamentals and ability to communicate in written and oral form are also musts to blend creativity and enthusiasm with disciplined rapid development of advanced medical devices, industrial, and military electronics. As Marcus Engineering grows we need people with the dedicated engineering spirit and those who can lead and take responsibility!
If you are looking for a job that challenges you and constantly has you learning new skills, if you are the type of person who can work well with small teams and manage projects for quick turnaround requiring fast thinking, self direction, and rapid learning, if you are hands on as well as brilliant at design, and motivating people, and love to follow projects from concept to manufacturing Marcus Engineering has a spot for you.
Marcus Engineering offers a strong profit sharing program, free snacks and other food in the kitchen and is a strong supporter of personal engineering projects. We provide reimbursement for most home technical projects. If a project grows your skill it grows our team and we always want to support that.
Marcus Engineering is a community engaged company supporting maker spaces, first robotics, mentor technology startups and support the UofA engineering program through volunteer efforts.
Company Skill Areas:
- Circuit design
- PCB layout (Altium Designer)
- Analog design (precision and medium speed)
- Switch mode power design (SMPS)
- Motor control (BLDC, Stepper, etc.)
- Sensor systems
- Bare metal embedded systems (PIC, ARM, etc.).
- Light PCB and product manufacturing
- Embedded security
- Light Android Development
- Embedded Linux (buildroot, kernel drivers etc)
- Complex Python applications
- Test Equipment Design
- Project Management (JIRA, Structure, Tempo)
- Revision Control (Bitbucket)
- Design Controls
- Regulatory considerations for Military, Aerospace, Medical
- Candidates must be US citizens or permanent US resident.
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