Electronics Engineer

WHO IS ENGINUITY?

Enginuity is a rapidly growing and diverse team providing broad-based experience in in oceans-tech, energy, medical, industrial automation and controls, electronics/embedded systems, and consumer products. If successful, you will be exposed to rare, cutting-edge design opportunities across multiple industries and projects. You will have the opportunity to work with seasoned experts as well as new professionals, making their mark in a creative, professional, and fun environment- extremely unique in our region.

You won't find us stacked up in cubes or designing by committee. What you will find, is a small but mighty team of engineering, design, technology, research, and strategy experts tackling complex technical problems with fit-for-purpose solutions.

We are currently Atlantic Canada's leader in innovation and design and we need YOUR help driving our mission to be Canada's most impactful engineering and design group. Are you our missing link?

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

Reporting to the Manager, Electronics, your role as Electronics Engineer will continue expanding the electronics team and provide excellence in delivering solutions to technical challenges brought by clients and internal projects. The position is responsible to develop industry leading, market-ready technology solutions.

The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Learn new technologies and skillsets to adept to client needs and provide innovative engineering solutions.
• Design and development of electronic hardware.
• Develop, test, and debug firmware for embedded systems using industry best practices.
• Diagnose and resolve hardware and firmware issues during development.
• Interact with clients to translate customer needs to project requirements.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Maintain and support a positive environment for learning and growth within the team.

THE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM:

• Bachelor's degree in computer/electrical engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience designing embedded systems.
• Ability and desire to learn new skills and technology quickly.

Additional experience in the following areas is considered an asset:

• Experience designing a variety of circuit types, including analog, low power, high speed digital, and RF.
• Schematic capture and PCB layout design using tools such as Altium or KiCad.
• Knowledge of common communication interfaces, for example I2C, SPI, CAN, USB, Ethernet, and RS-485.
• Experience working different microcontrollers, including but not limited to STM32 nRF, and Arduino.
• Knowledge of common IoT interfaces such as Bluetooth, Wifi, cell and LoRa.
• Firmware architecture experience, both bare metal and with an RTOS like FreeRTOS or Zephyr.
• Embedded Linux development.
• Circuit design using FPGAs.
• DSP development.
• Familiarity with higher level languages such as Python.
• Project Management expertise.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU:

• To remain nimble and responsive to a fast-paced and competitive industry.
• To be a focal point in industry
• To embrace teamwork with a positive mindset.
• An affinity for problem solving.
• Insatiable curiosity.

EXTRA PERKS OF WORKING AT ENGINUITY:

• An office environment that promotes collaboration, conversations, and teamwork.
• Cool company swag⁠ that you will actually want to wear.
• Flexible schedules⁠ to encourage a healthy work/life balance.
• Co-pay Health and Dental benefits. ⁠
• Company paid Employee Assistance Program.
• Quarterly company events (and a few smaller ones in between).
• Profit share bonus structure. ⁠⁠
• Company supported personal and professional development activities.
• Communal snacks.
• Ping pong (and other) tournaments.
• Occasional visits from the sweetest dogs.

WHERE YOU WILL BE WORKING:

Our office is located in the heart of Spryfield, but more specifically, at 264 Herring Cove Road in Suite #100. If you know the Spryfield area – we are right across the street from Sobeys, close to the ever-increasing options for interesting lunches, and near to beautiful lakes, forests, and trails.

HOURS OF OPERATION:

Our office is open Monday – Friday between 9am – 5pm. Our corporate culture values work-life balance, allowing a flexible, 8 hour workday. Remote desk options are also available at locations within the regional Innovation Ecosystem, including Dalhousie ideaHUB, C.O.V.E., ThePIER, Ignite Labsabs).

OUR COMPANY VALUES:

A collaborative, encouraging and unbelievably friendly environment is the core of everything we do here. Since our inception, we have created and maintained a strong corporate culture that:

• Continues to build a positive "family-like" spirit - yep, cliché but true ;-)
• Leads with sensitive, thoughtful, and inclusive language.
• Is passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable environment for all staff to thrive in.
• Believes that every member on our team enriches our diversity by encouraging us to alternate perspectives of the world around us.
• Embraces and drives change.
• Encourages adventurous, creative, and open-minded traits.
• Builds open and honest relationships with all levels of staff.
• Pursues growth and learning.
• Creates a fun environment with a pinch of quirkiness.

Sound exciting? You NEED to apply

If this sounds like you, please visit our careers page at Careers | Enginuity Inc. and submit your application.

We appreciate all applications, unfortunately due to the volume of applications we receive, we are unable to provide status updates. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Enginuity is a proud supporter of diversity, equity and inclusion and we strongly encourage applications from all candidates, including persons who identify as racially visible, Indigenous, persons with disabilities, women in underrepresented roles and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Company events
• Dental care
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Flexible schedule
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
• Vision care

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Halifax, NS B3P 1M1: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Do you have experience with designing embedded systems?

Experience:

• designing embedded systems: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person