Electrical Engineer

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Want to apply your educational investment in a meaningful way, developing new solutions in a fun, collaborative environment? Are you looking to join a fast-growing, stable company with highly unique products and a supportive company culture?

SawStop is the world leader in power tool safety, and we're looking for a local entry-level Electrical Engineer to join our team. Headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon, SawStop is the #1 manufacturer of table saws for the commercial and hobbyist markets, and our safety technology has saved thousands of users from devastating, life-changing table saw injuries. Founded in Oregon, SawStop is part of the TTS Group, a 2,500+ employee family-owned company based in Germany with a focus on long-term growth.

SawStop is looking to expand the application of our technologies into new products and markets. The successful applicant will join our electrical engineering functional team in an open and creative work environment where invention and dedication are both recognized and rewarded.

PRIMARY FUNCTION

This focus of this specific role is to improve upon and support the implementation of Active Injury Mitigation (AIM) in our current products. The experiences afforded in this role may provide an ideal platform for the successful candidate's subsequent contributions in other roles directly involved in the next of SawStop products.

The Electrical Engineer will interface regularly with other in order to support an unparalleled customer journey. The Electrical Engineer will be able to work independently, and while there will be other mentorship opportunities within the electrical engineering team, will officially report to the Manager of Electrical Engineering.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Current Product Engineering: Production Support
  • Lead quality, performance, and cost improvement projects
  • Support Operations team to ensure up-time and low defect rate for brake cartridge manufacturing
  • Maintain local and remote test fixtures
  • Update scripts in test fixtures in the field as necessary
  • Design new fixtures as well as make improvements to existing test fixtures with support from other disciplines
  • Find and qualify replacements for obsolete components.
  • Coordinate necessary fixture updates related to new firmware releases and/or hardware updates with engineering and operations
  • Monitor test fixture performance, look for statistical trends. Escalate issues as appropriate to quality, operations, or technical leadership.

• Customer Journey
  • Review product returns and associated feedback to determine root cause of concerns
  • Identify and execute on design improvements to address field concerns as appropriate
• Documentation
  • Document test fixture designs and associated code in revision-controlled repositories
  • Document existing processes and modify documentation as processes change.
• Miscellaneous
  • Manage multiple simultaneous tasks in parallel
  • Coordinates with team to determine priorities of tasks on a regular basis
  • Ability to work both independently and as a part of a larger functional team
  • Some international travel is possible, although infrequent and unlikely in this role

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• I+ year professional experience or (discipline-relevant) (s)
• Must be authorized to work in the United States at time of hiring
• Must be ready to work onsite as required by the work at hand
• Experience troubleshooting analog and mixed signal circuits
• Experience with schematic capture and layout tools
• Ability to assemble and repair printed circuit boards
• Lab equipment experience (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, LCR meter, etc.)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and accountability to drive issues to closure
• Ability to communicate and collaborate across functional groups and diverse audiences, while working in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Hands on problem-solving and root cause analysis skills

QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven ability to understand circuits designed with discrete transistors
• Experience with version control systems (Git and SVN in particular)
• Ability to collect relevant data/measurements, summarize, and report test results to team
• Experience with circuit simulation (LTSpice in particular)
• Experience with electric motors
• Test fixture design experience
• Experience with qualifying replacement components
• Ability to understand and write simple scripts in Python
• Ability to write simple applications for Arduino-style processors
• Experience using table saws and other woodworking tools
• Hands on practical skills - soldering to build and test prototype PCBAs and ability to assemble connectors to cables using soldered and crimped connections

COMPANY PROFILE

SawStop is the world leader in power tool safety.

Headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon we design, engineer, and manufacture innovative power tools and accessories for the commercial and hobbyist woodworking markets. All SawStop power tools feature our patented safety technology that has saved tens of thousands of users from devastating, life-changing table saw injuries.

Our commitment to quality, innovation and safety over the past 20 years has made us the best in the industry. And our future looks just as bright as we accelerate our investments in new advancements in woodworking safety and performance. Redoubling our focus on product innovation and best-in-class quality to expand our product line and reach new markets means that we are growing fast and looking to expand and strengthen our dynamic team.

Benefits

Note this posting is for an hourly, contract position.

Please include cover letter and updated resume when applying.