{"id":742790,"url":"https://alion.io/job/uei-sr-electrical-engineer","title":"Sr. Electrical Engineer","company":{"id":686687,"name":"Diversity, Equity, Inc","domain":"uei.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/uei","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Santa Ana, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":140000,"max":160000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":160000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Wi-Fi","optional":false},{"name":"Zigbee","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-28T23:25:29Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T03:32:18Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":33,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":33},"description":"Position Summary\nThe Sr. Electrical Engineer is a senior individual contributor who independently designs, develops, integrates, and validates electrical hardware for connected-home and consumer-electronics products. This position owns complex electrical design activities from requirements and system architecture through schematic capture, prototype bring-up, design verification, regulatory support, cost optimization, and transfer to high-volume production. The engineer works closely with software, mechanical, RF, test, applications, program management, sourcing, quality, and manufacturing teams across UEI locations and with customers and suppliers.\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities\nThe duties listed below are intended only as examples of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to this class.\nPrimary responsibilities include:\nLead complex electrical hardware development for wireless control, smart-home, thermostat, sensing, and other embedded consumer-electronics products.\nTranslate product and customer requirements into electrical system architectures, block diagrams, component-level schematics, design specifications, interface definitions, and electrical bills of material.\nDesign and review digital, analog, mixed-signal, power-management, battery-powered, sensor, display, audio, infrared, and wireless-support circuitry as applicable to the product.\nSelect and qualify components based on performance, cost, availability, lifecycle, reliability, regulatory, and manufacturability requirements; evaluate alternate and second-source components when needed.\nGuide PCB placement and routing, including signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, RF coexistence, antenna-interface, thermal, testability, and design-for-manufacturing considerations.\nPlan and execute prototype bring-up, debugging, characterization, design verification, tolerance analysis, worst-case analysis, and reliability testing using appropriate laboratory equipment.\nDiagnose complex product and system issues across hardware, firmware, software, RF, mechanical, manufacturing, and test boundaries; drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions to closure.\nPerform design reviews and provide clear technical recommendations, risk assessments, trade-off analyses, and documentation for project and business decisions.\nSupport regulatory and product-safety certification activities, including test readiness, technical investigation, and resolution of compliance issues.\nPartner with global manufacturing and test engineering teams to define electrical test coverage, support pilot builds, resolve production issues, improve yield, and release designs into high-volume production.\nCollaborate with applications and program teams on customer RFQs, feasibility studies, technical responses, preliminary schematics, and BOM development when required.\nProvide technical guidance to other engineers and cross-functional team members; may lead the technical work of a project team without direct supervisory responsibility.\nMaintain accurate engineering records and release documentation in accordance with UEI development and change-control processes.\nTravel domestically or internationally as needed to support customers, suppliers, UEI engineering teams, certification activities, and manufacturing sites.\nSupervisory Responsibilities - List Teams/Groups\nThe engineer may serve as a technical or project lead and guide other engineers, technicians, and cross-functional team members.\nQualifications - Knowledge & Experience\nMinimum of 7 years of related electrical engineering experience developing embedded or consumer-electronics products.\nDemonstrated ability to work highly independently and solve complex technical and business problems with limited direction.\nStrong knowledge of circuit design, schematic capture, design optimization, design review, prototyping, electrical validation, reliability analysis, and requirements analysis.\nHands-on experience with microcontrollers or application processors, memory, serial interfaces such as I2C, SPI and UART, USB, power supplies, battery systems, sensors, and mixed-signal circuitry.\nExperience using ECAD and engineering-analysis tools for schematic design, PCB collaboration, simulation, component research, and design documentation.\nProficiency with laboratory equipment such as digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, function generators, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and network analyzers as applicable.\nWorking knowledge of EMI/EMC, product safety, design for manufacturing, design for test, tolerance analysis, reliability, and high-volume product development.\nExperience with wireless technologies such as Bluetooth/BLE, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Thread/Matter, sub-GHz RF, or Cellular is preferred.\nAbility to communicate complex technical information clearly to engineering and non-engineering audiences, including customers, suppliers, and global teams.\nStrong analytical, organizational, collaboration, documentation, and problem-solving skills.\nEducation, Licenses & Certification\nBachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline from an accredited college or university is required.\nMaster’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline is preferred.\nWork Conditions\n40 hours plus per week.\nWork is performed in an office, electronics laboratory, and occasionally a manufacturing or customer environment.\nFrequent use of a computer and engineering software; 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