Instrument Development Electrical Engineer

We are seeking an Electrical Engineer to join our Instrument Development Team developing the next generations of world class IDEXX diagnostic instrumentation. The successful candidate will have a background in electronic hardware and embedded system design and development.

As an Electrical Engineer at IDEXX, you will be involved in developing custom point of care instrument solutions to monitor, and control, a wide variety of critical parameters impacting animal medical diagnosis. Our instrument requirements often demand relative position of the sample medium under test and a variety of sensors (temperature, humidity, light, pressure etc.) with micron precision in multiple dimensions. You will develop design solutions that are cost effective, reliable, long-term, manufacturable and serviceable, while maintaining ease of use.

• Be a key part of product development teams providing electrical engineering support on future platform developments from concept feasibility through prototype evaluation and production release.

• Analyze specifications, design, review, fabricate and test variety of electronics, optics and control-related subsystems.

• Participate in design and product verification and validation.

• Develop schematics, layouts and BOMs for both prototype and production level electronic circuit release, evaluating design performance, DFM and cost.

• Contribute as part of cross-functional teams to develop new product features and requirements.

• Design and develop equipment, methods and protocols to support design, evaluation and verification of diagnostic instrumentation products.

• Coordinate assembly of system prototypes.

• Develop tools and protocols for troubleshooting system behavior and measuring system performance to specifications.

• Test final products to specifications and ensure quality requirements are met.

• Support troubleshooting and root cause investigation of hardware and system related problems and propose design change solutions. Specify, implement, and test modifications to existing hardware systems.

• Develop/recommend appropriate facilities, suppliers, components, equipment, tools and resources necessary to complete design, fabrication, implementation and testing of electro-mechanical sub-systems.

• Develop personal engineering skills by learning from experienced and cross-functional peers.

• Bachelors degree in electrical engineering or electrical engineering technology with 0-3 years of industrial experience.

• Good working knowledge in electronic design, including PCB board design, and use of FPGAs.

• A natural passion for learning new things, critical thinking and solving problems.

• Effective collaboration and communication with colleagues and others in related areas to provide support, exchange information and create efficient processes.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Strong ability to generate clearly written reports.

• The ability to work well within a cross functional team.

• The ability to work on multiple experiments with some direct supervision.

• Working knowledge in MS Office required.