Description

Job Title: Electrical Engineering Manager

Department / Business Unit: Hardware / Robotics

Reports to: Director of Hardware

Direct Reports: Yes
FLSA Classification: Exempt

Location: Innolabs Office - Long Island City (Queens) NY*
*Must reside in NY, NJ, or CT

About the Role

Opentrons is looking for an experienced Electrical Engineering Manager to lead the electrical team through the development of our next generation robots. This role includes both managing the team responsible for designing and manufacturing Opentrons robots, as well as taking direct technical ownership of key projects. This exciting opportunity is a highly hands-on position involving complex electrical design, development, and transition to manufacturing.

The Electrical Engineering Manager will report to the Director of Hardware and will mentor a growing team of electrical engineers. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in cross-functional collaboration both domestically and internationally and is passionate about advancing life science research.

What You Will Do

• Hire, train and manage the electrical engineering department throughout the development of Opentrons robots and modules.
• Build out the electrical team as needed to support a growing number of technical projects.
• Lead the electrical development of future Opentrons products and make improvements to existing products; including designing, prototyping, testing, mass manufacturing and sustaining at the schematic, PCB, and SMT level.
• Provide technical and product vision and engineering leadership through an understanding of customer and business needs.
• Recruit and hire key personnel as needed for growth.
• Guide team with effective prioritization and lean development processes throughout product development.
• Drive products through new product introduction phases, including coordination with departments for sourcing, quality process creation, test fixture design, assembly method creation, and similar.
• Own project scheduling, definition of major milestones, and communication of project progress. Manage bill of materials and cost information to a high degree of accuracy to drive product towards the target cost.
• Communicate project status and goals proactively across the product development and operations teams.
• Manage bill of materials and cost information to a high degree of accuracy to drive product towards the target cost.
• Mentor team members through career planning, product development, and mass manufacturing.
• Balance engineering resources between existing product improvements and new product features based on customer needs, internal quality or manufacturing yield improvements.
• Establish and improve design, testing, manufacturing and qc processes for continuous document control, operational yield, and quality improvements.
• Constant collaboration with mechanical, software, design, testing, and manufacturing.
• This role may include frequent trips to China to work alongside team members overseas.
• Drive EMC compliance throughout the entirety of the development processes. 

What We Are Looking For

Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years experience in an electrical engineering and/or electrical engineering management role
• Extensive proven leadership and project management experience with relevant technical challenges and team members
• Strong experience with schematic capture and PCB layout
• Experience with medium to high volume production
• Embedded systems, control systems, and sensors experience
• Strong experience working directly with manufacturers and/or contract manufacturers
• Experience and strong intuition with robotics, electrical motors and thermodynamics
• Strong experience with DFMA, ECN processes, test reports, manufacturing/quality reports, and similar
• Strong proficiency with Altium or schematic capture and layout equivalent
• Strong proficiency with ERP & lean document management systems
• Strong experience with prototype, test, and measurement ability
• Experience with test fixture development

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proven team leadership ability, managing team members with a high level of prioritization, career growth, and professionalism
• Proven product development skills, bringing relevant complex electromechanical products from concept to market
• Embedded and scripting development at the prototype and testing level
• Working knowledge of Python and C/C++

Bonus Qualifications:

• Industry experience in life sciences or medical devices
• Design experience with CNC machines, 3D printers, pick-and-place machines or similar motion-dependent devices
• Experience with fluid dynamics or thermal systems

Working Conditions and Physical Effort

• Work is performed in a typical interior/office work environment
• This role may include regular international travel to China to work alongside team members overseas

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