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Together with your team, you define the electrical architecture, platform roadmaps, make key technical trade-offs, and ensure robust execution from early concept through industrialized systems deployed at leading semiconductor fabs. You operate as a principal-level engineer: hands-on where it matters, decisive in design choices, and a technical authority across disciplines.\nResponsibilities\nElectrical System Ownership\nOwn and actively lead the end-to-end electrical architecture at system level, combining your own architectural input with leadership of architects and engineers to deliver solutions that meet performance, reliability, safety, and manufacturability targets. Translate system requirements into clear electrical concepts, interfaces, and design rules. Drive architectural decisions and resolve cross-disciplinary trade-offs.\nTechnical Leadership & Design Authority\nSet direction for electrical design across subsystems including power distribution, grounding, EMC, signal integrity, safety, sensors, actuators, and control electronics. Review, challenge, and approve electrical designs. Establish standards, best practices, and design guidelines and expectations across the organization and our collaborative partners.\nIntegration, Validation & Problem Solving\nCombining input and considerations from the whole organization, assure the cycle time/MTTR/etc targets are met for electrical integration at machine level, and support critical build, test, and bring-up phases. Take ownership of complex system-level issues, drive root-cause analysis, and implement structurally sound solutions. Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and certifications.\nMentorship & Capability Building\nAct as the senior technical reference for electrical engineering within NFI. Mentor engineers and architects, elevate technical quality, and grow organizational capability in electrical system design and integration.\nStakeholder & Partner Interaction\nRepresent the electrical domain in system architecture discussions, project reviews, and external technical engagements. 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