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Allient-Rochester (formerly ORMEC Systems, Inc.), a subsidiary of Allient Inc., specializes in motion control systems, including motion controllers, servo drives, motors, and integrated automation solutions. Allient-Rochester services the aerospace & defense, medical, semiconductor equipment, e-mobility & logistics, factory & industrial automation, and packaging industries, Allient-Rochester’s tradition of innovation and excellence in motion control continues to grow as part of Allient’s global network of motion and control solutions.

Summary:

The Senior Electrical Engineer researches, designs, and develops embedded electronics and motion control systems in collaboration with software product development. This role combines deep technical leadership, product ownership, and hands-on electronics hardware development, leading the architecture and implementation of complex embedded motion control systems. The role requires a high degree of independence and leadership in complex projects, including management of the full electronics hardware development lifecycle, contribution to technology strategy, on-time delivery, mentorship of junior engineers, and serving as a technical and/or product leader for assigned product lines.

Responsibilities:

Architect, Design, and Develop Embedded Motion Control Hardware:

• Design, implement, andoptimizeembeddedelectronicshardware for motion control, servo drives, power electronics, motor control, and industrial automation systems.
• Own electrical system architecture spanning power conversion, analog, digital, sensing, communications, and mixed-signal domains.
• Performcomponentselection, circuit design, tradeoff analysis, and schematic development.
• Contribute to hardware platform strategy, subsystem definition, and product architecture decisions.
• Support PCB implementation, layout collaboration,stack-up design, grounding, thermal, DFM/DFT, and hardware integration activities.
• Translate product requirements into robust, manufacturable, and scalable electrical designsand low-level engineering specifications.

Lead Hardware Bring-Up, Debugging, and Validation:

• Lead board bring-up, electrical debugging, characterization, and root cause investigation from prototype through production release.
• Troubleshoot electrical, mixed-signal, and power electronics issues using oscilloscopes,logicanalyzers, power instrumentation, and engineering diagnostic methods.
• Analyze switching behavior, efficiency, thermal performance, EMI/EMC, grounding, and signal integrity.
• Develop and execute validation, verification, and hardware characterization activities.
• Drive technical issues frominitialsymptomthrough corrective action and validated resolution.

Support Product Development, Integration, and Manufacturing Readiness:

• Support hardware/firmware integration, system-level debugging, and motion control system development across the product lifecycle.
• Support design verification, validation, EMC/EMI, safety, regulatory, and agency compliance activities, ensuring adherence to hardware development best practices and industry standards.
• Support transition from prototype through manufacturing release, production readiness, and sustaining activities, including investigation of manufacturing, field, and customer-reported technical issues.
• Manage projects independently, adapting to complexity and scale while collaborating across teams to align electrical development activities with productobjectivesand organizational goals.

Provide Technical Leadership & Strategy:

• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers.
• Contribute totechnologyroadmaps and strategic planning forelectronicsdevelopment.
• Lead and activelyparticipatein all phases of the product lifecycle—architecture, implementation, review, documentation, testing, release, and long-term maintenance.
• Supportcoordination across teams, includingsoftware/firmware, QA, and product management.
• As aTechnicalLeader,provide technical direction, work coordination, mentoring, and oversight for contributing engineers on assigned projects, products, or initiatives (as assigned).
• As aProduct Leader, take ownership of a specific product line’shardwaredevelopment, documentation, testing, maintenance, quality, and support(as assigned).

Qualifications:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s orMaster’s degree inElectrical Engineeringora relatedfield.
• 10+ years of professional experience in embeddedelectronicsdevelopment.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex embedded systems or product architectures in production environments.

Technical Skills Required:

• Expert-level experience withelectronicsarchitecture,power,analog, digital,andmixed signalcircuits.
• Expert-levelproficiencyindetailed circuit design, modeling, analysis,andschematic capture (Altium).
• Expert-levelproficiencywith electronic test and measurement equipment.
• Strong experience with PCB layout and board-level design practices(PCB stack-up, thermal management,grounding, noise mitigation, signal integrity, and design for EMC/EMI compliance).
• Strong experience in hands-onbring-up, test, anddebuggingof embedded electronics and power stages.
• Knowledge of, ordemonstrated ability to rapidly learnand applykey technologiesincludingpowerconversion(SiC,GaN, MOSFET, IGBT),BLDC/ PMSM motor systems,DC / DCconversion,inverter stages, signal conditioning, feedback devices (EnDat,BiSS, SSI,hallsensors),EtherCAT, CAN.
• Experience supporting EMC/EMI, safety, validation, or agency compliance activities(UL / CE).
• Must be a U.S. person due to ITAR regulations.

Optional, Desirable Technical Skills:

• Functional safety awareness (IEC 61508 / IEC 61800-5-2 / SIL concepts).
• Experience withembeddedsoftware, C/C++,control system integration, or other coding experience.
• Exposure toLinux and Unix.
• Experience using MATLABSimulink for modeling and analysis
• Experience withFPGAorother programmable logic
• Experience withhardware-in-the-loop test fixture development.

Additional Required Competencies:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently and lead projects effectively.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Commitment to quality, efficiency, and innovation.
• Experience in cross-functional team collaboration.

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