Principal Electrical Engineer

SharkNinja (creator of the familiar household brands Shark® and Ninja®) offers a fun and fast-paced work environment with countless opportunities for employees to grow as professionals. From interns to executives, we are a group of passionate, smart and motivated people with a drive to learn, innovate and succeed. This is all thanks to our devoted employees and their steadfast commitments to the consumer and innovation. These combined efforts have resulted in company revenues increasing from less than $300 million back in 2007 to over $5 billion today! The expanding Electronics Group at SharkNinja (creator of the familiar household brands Shark® and Ninja®) will be looking for a dynamic, creative, inspirational and committed Electrical Engineer to lead and deliver an extraordinary pipeline of new Ninja products.

This role will focus on team management and embedded electronic design and product development for our ambitious product roadmap of kitchen appliance products. The successful candidate will have experience in analog and digital embedded design, power electronics, including both hardware (schematic capture and PCB layout) and firmware (C and ASM), preferably in consumer products or similar. This team member will participate in ideas on how to best use electronics to comply with marketing and engineering requirements and support overall development from conceptualization to implementation of new products. This engineer will be directly involved in the design and building of prototypes that will drive new products to expand and improve our costumer experience with Shark brand products.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Contribute to project work directly through architecture, schematics and software design while supporting DVT/DQTP, EMC and compliance testing.
• Design and development of consumer product electronics from initial concept to on-going product support within our global development organization.
• Collaborate with our global multi-disciplinary teams to define, design, build, and test our next generation products from initial conception to mass production with new ideas and out-of-the-box engineering solutions.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines and Product Marketing to provide initial cost estimates for EBOM, as well as final product implementation based upon thorough analysis of product requirements.
• Support fielded products and perform analysis of field-reported issues.
• Lead electronics hardware and software peer design reviews for your product area.
• Think critically about new product concepts, and asking the provocative questions necessary for positive change
• Generation of test protocols and test reports per SharkNinja specifications
• Design and build prototypes to test and validate new concepts or create new development tools
• Reviewing and interpreting test results providing feedback on product improvement solutions

Functional Skills & Knowledge:

• Ability to work in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to work independently and in a team demonstrating initiative with minimal guidance
• Solid analytical skills with a strong attention to detail
• Ability to analyze test results, data, synthesize conclusions and communicate up and across with clarity and critical writing skills.
• Good interpersonal and leadership qualities and self-awareness.
• Desired Technical

Competencies:

• Power electronics AC, DC power management, switching, EMI
• Driving and controlling thermal heating elements, AC and DC motors up to 2hp, PD, PID controllers.
• Understanding of sensors and sensing techniques, NTC, PTC, Accelerometers.
• Understanding of power switching with relay and mechanical contacts as well as solid state.
• Embedded controllers like STM32 and busses I2C, SMB, SPI.
• Familiarity with Lithium Ion battery packs, capsense technologies is a plus
• Experience with embedded software development, compilers, IDE’s, JIRA, SVN is a plus
• Experience with wireless communication standards like BLE is a plus

Education & Experience:

• BS in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• Minimum of 10+ years’ of relevant experience in a technical leadership role involving the design, development and delivery of motor drive and heating focused products.
• Previous industry experiences working for a consumer products company or a consultant company in the consumer goods space is highly desirable.
• Experience in all aspects of electrical design: component selection, system architecture, documentation, test and debugging
• Comfortable in both analog and digital domains
• Experience in the use of analysis/measurement tools such as oscilloscopes, data loggers, electronic loads, and spectrum analyzers.