Career Opportunities

Tracewell is a growing, dynamic, high-tech manufacturing organization looking for team members, who are ready for a new challenge in a professional, agile and fun environment. We are a leader in innovative standard and custom design products and specialize in the design, manufacture and integration of computer systems, back planes, power and monitoring systems, computer boards and peripherals, supplying everything from off-the-shelf standard products to fully customized and integrated rack systems for VME, VXI, PXI, cPCI, and proprietary bus systems.

SYSTEMs Electrical Engineer

Tracewell Systems is a growing, dynamic, high-tech team environment organization looking for team members, who are ready for a new challenge in a professional, agile and exciting environment.

We specialize in the design, manufacture and integration of system packaging, backplanes, power and monitoring systems, computer boards and peripherals, supplying everything from off-the-shelf standard products to fully customized commercial and MIL COTS integrated systems for VME, VXI, PXI, cPCI, and proprietary bus systems.

Position includes meeting schedule, cost, and performance goals and direct customer communication for OEM & standard products.  Engineering tools available include PSpice, Mathcad, Viewdraw and Pads to complete the electrical design requirements, schematic development and PCB layout.  Projects are broad in nature, usually requiring appreciable originality and ingenuity.   

Reports To

Director of Engineering

Responsibilities

  • Complete electrical design responsibility from concept to manufacturing for systems including power selection/design, controllers/monitoring, interconnect and backplanes.  Hardware development and understanding the customer’s digital & RF hardware will be required.
  • Provides customer assistance and interfaces with clients
  • Supports manufacturing and sales departments by preparing test specifications, production documents and other project related reports
  • Assumes project leadership role
  • Design to meet latest safety & EMI/EMC directives
  • Backplane bus experience (VME, PCI, PXI, VXI, ATCA), a plus

Qualifications

  • Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering required
  • 5-10 years design engineering experience required
  • Familiarity of manufacturing methods preferred
  • Must be detail oriented, organized,  very analytical
  • Oral and written communication skills required
  • Familiarity with microprocessors (Microchip PIC), hardware and embedded software design using microcontrollers
  • Analog, Digital & RF design techniques
  • Familiarity with Power Supply design (Component and/or Brick based a plus)
  • Familiarity with FPGA’s, PLD’s, DSP’s a plus
  • Familiarity with military specs a plus

Contact Dianne Fullwiler: dfullwiler@tracewell.com