Electrical Designer

5 days ago


Burlington, Ontario, Canada PV Labs Full time
Salary:

Electrical Designer - Complex High-Speed Layouts

Airborne Stabilized Imaging Systems

**Please note that to be considered for any position at PV Labs, all candidates must be eligible to meet the requirements of the Canadian Controlled-Goods Program of the Defense Production Act, and be able to hold and maintain a Canadian Security Clearance. If you are not clear about your eligibility, please consult the Government of Canada website HERE**

About the Role

An Electrical Designer role at PV Labs is not your ordinary stay-in-your-lane type of career. Instead, its an advanced, multi-disciplinary role that is essential to all aspects of architecture, design, verification, test and deployment of high-performance, gyro-stabilized airborne optical systems. Its where concept turns into reality, where getting it right is a whole-team effort, and where your expertise matters.

Our philosophy is firmly rooted in modularity and component-based design because its just the smart thing to do. This role not only encourages you, but it pushes you to experiment and try new things. We want you to be vocal and involved in improving our efficiency, agility and ingeniousness of our electrical designs. We encourage you to contribute to our knowledge bases, standards and workflows in other words truly be a part of our team.

We are seeking an Electrical Designer with an insatiable appetite for elegant layouts and designing highly complex, high-speed applications for cool things. Reporting to the Vice President of NPI, indirectly to a Project Engineer and working alongside a small but impressive team in our Electrical Lab, you will:

  • lend your voice, experience and curiosity to how our designs influence the operability and evolution of our state-of-the-art gyro-stabilized optical payloads in our regular deign and code reviews.
  • work alongside multi-disciplinary teams in requirements generation, architecture, design and validation all aspects of electronics, interconnect, signal integrity, FPGA and programmable logic development and embedded software.
  • share your expertise by guiding and mentoring other members of the engineering team.
  • ensure design requirements are properly understood and well documented.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

  • Design, analysis, implementation and verification of complex multi-layer FPGA and Microprocessor circuit cards used in high-speed and high-power applications.
  • Test, verification and debug of complex FPGA, microprocessor and analog/power circuit designs.
  • Create and review electrical simulations using LTSpice.
  • Design cable assemblies to meet signal, noise, power and reliability requirements.
  • Identify opportunities and recommend strategies for cost reduction and/or reliability improvement.
  • Design, implementation and verification of firmware (we use VHDL)
  • Leverage a Design-for-Test approach to facilitate the testing of embedded boards and systems.
  • Design of functional test systems to verify designs and validate manufactured assemblies.

Technical Skills You'll Need for Success

  • Design and implementation using Signal Integrity best practices for digital systems.
  • Design for EMI standards compliance
  • Strong understanding and application of design for manufacturing requirements for circuit cards.
  • Strong working knowledge of PCB and circuit board manufacturing processes.
  • Advanced electrical CAD skills using Cadence OrCad and Allegro an asset.

High-Value Technical Skills

  • Familiarity with design for military power and environmental requirements an asset.
  • Familiarity with design for aircraft safety requirements an asset.

About You as an Electrical Designer

Our success is not only derived from the collective technical capabilities of our team, but more importantly HOW we work together. Here's what we value, and we seek those share the following:

  • Creativity, Curiosity and Problem Solving, with healthy obsession for attention to detail and right-sizing solutions
  • Not afraid to seek out responsibility and opportunities to take the lead.
  • A confident technical communicator who can articulate ideas and concepts, but who also knows that confidence in communication also means the ability to ask for help or collaboration when you need it.
  • A continuous-improvement approach to design, processes and practices
  • Participating in requirements generation
  • Providing realistic cost and schedule estimations of assigned work packages
  • Drive the design and code reviews not just a passenger.
  • Constructively provide and receive guidance and mentoring to other members of the engineering team as were all in this together.
  • Preference for working on small teams that actually communicate with each other.
  • The kind of professional maturity that enables you to manage your own time and priorities and finds motivation from multiple sources.

What's in It for You?

Our work-life philosophy is also unique we've fully embraced a 4-day work week, all year long and wrapped up in a hybrid model that allows you to work from where it makes the most sense.

PV Labs is where your engineering career meets limitless innovation and unparalleled impact.

As an integral member of our skilled engineering team, you'll channel your focus, passion, and expertise into an array of fascinating systems, products and projects. Your contributions will span the design, development, and maintenance of state-of-the-art electro-mechanical stabilization platforms, motion-control systems, camera and lens control systems, video-processing technologies, remote I/O subsystems, and the integration and control of cutting-edge laser technologies.

At PV Labs, you'll be immersed in an environment where groundbreaking technology meets exceptional talent. We take immense pride in our distinctive workplace culture - it fosters collaboration and ingenuity, creating an atmosphere. We're dedicated to the design, development, and delivery of high-tech products and services across diverse sectors such as industrial, government, entertainment, and resources. With a focus on advanced mechatronics and aerial imaging, our products find applications in public protection, Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR), and the motion-picture industries.



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