Senior Product Electrical Engineer

at Great Plains Industries - GPI in Wichita, Kansas, United States

Job Description

The Senior Product Electrical Engineer is responsible for the design and development of electrical control systems, instrumentation, and equipment used across various applications. This role provides research, design, implementation, and technical support for electrical hardware, embedded firmware, and supporting software used in new product development. A key focus of the position is integrating emerging communication technologies to enhance product usability and deliver an improved, simplified customer experience.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service to support and influence the product roadmap.
• Work closely with Electrical, Mechanical, and Production Engineering from concept through production to optimize performance, cost, quality, and manufacturability.
• Develop system architecture, hardware and software specifications, schedules, cost estimates, test strategies, prototypes, schematics, and PCB designs.

• Apply electrical engineering principles to design and implement hardware and software solutions.
• Design ultra–low-power microcontroller systems, low-noise analog circuits, LCD interfaces, and wireless communication technologies enabling IoT compatibility.
• Write low-level firmware drivers and application-level firmware in C.
• Participate in design reviews, validation testing, and regression testing.
• Analyze prototype performance using measurement theory, statistics, and Excel.
• Troubleshoot electrical design and firmware issues during development and production transition.
• Coordinate feature verification testing across all product configurations.

• Develop calibration, configuration, and functional test standards in collaboration with Process Engineering.
• Support development of circuit board and sub-assembly test fixtures for internal use and contract manufacturers.
• Partner with Operations and Process Engineering to ensure efficient assembly processes and manage design changes affecting production.
• Support compliance efforts including FCC, CE, UL, ISO, and other regulatory standards (as applicable).