Senior Electrical Engineer

Senior Electrical Engineer

Company:
Kearfott Corporation

Founded in 1918, Kearfott Corporation, a global Aerospace and Defense supplier for over 100 years, is a leader in the design and manufacture of precision motion control products and inertial navigation components. Kearfott has a very long history of innovation and excellence and is the go-to brand for many of our global clients. Kearfott is trusted, respected and plays a vital role in the success of America’s aerospace and defense industries.

With over a century of expertise & experience, Kearfott is dedicated to providing quality, reliability, and cutting‑edge technology to customers worldwide to meet their sea, land, air, and space navigation and guidance requirements.

Benefits: comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, sick leave pay, vacation pay, 401K, and Tuition Reimbursement. We also offer a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off.

Role

Summary:

Exciting opportunity for a Senior Electrical Engineer to work within our Motion and Sensors Division in Black Mountain, North Carolina. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the design, development, and execution of projects utilizing embedded electronic controls for Kearfott’s range of electromechanical devices: actuators and brushless DC (BLDC) motors, in the aerospace and defense markets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review and interpret customer requirements, both technical and programmatic, assessing effort from an electronics perspective.
• Contribute to sales proposal efforts, prototype development and other NPI activities culminating in transition of new products into production.
• Develop electronic architectures and implement specific designs for control of Kearfott components and systems.
• Understand manufacturing and overall design trade‑offs (practical, realizable implementation of designs).
• Develop and validate system performance models and predictions.
• Participate as a member of a cross‑functional project team including software engineers, mechanical engineers, manufacturing engineers, program managers, technicians, and sales/customer support staff.
• Support product improvement/cost reduction initiatives.
• Perform and/or coordinate design analyses using Matlab®, Mathcad®, and Pspice® (or other computer‑aided engineering/simulation tools).
• Prepare, maintain, and adhere to project schedules and specific electronics project management tasks.
• Travel as required to support market development and customer needs.
• Support electronics cost proposal activity and foster relationships with customers’ engineering teams.

Required Skills and

Competencies:

• Technical versatility in electronics design, electronics hardware/software integration, and system electromechanical integration.
• Experience in industry standards such as DO-254, DO-178C, MIL-STD-882E is a plus.
• Knowledge of relevant DO-160, MIL-STD-461, IPC and IEC standards for electronics development.
• Efficiently executes design and/or proposal analyses using Altium, Matlab®, Mathcad®, and Pspice® (or other computer‑aided engineering/simulation tools).
• Competence with electronic components and test equipment (oscilloscopes, power analyzers, etc.).
• Systems engineering (requirements‑based design and project execution).
• Analog and digital circuit design; PCB layout, manufacturing and assembly processes; EMI/EMC design methods; lightning protection.
• Customer‑centric attitude; excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to motivate and lead cross‑functional teams; action‑oriented, responsive, thorough, and attention to detail.
• Accepts and positively responds to constructive criticism to improve personal and project performance.

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering required; M.S. in Electrical Engineering preferred.
• Minimum 4+ years of direct/related experience in digital motion controls and power electronic design, including experience with DC and AC motors, rotary and linear power transmission components (gears, ball screws, etc.), position feedback devices (resolvers, RVDT/LVDT, encoders, etc.), DSP/FPGA based servo systems.
• Must be a US Citizen.

Work Location: This is an on‑site role (100%) at our Black Mountain, NC facility. Relocation assistance is available.

Equal Opportunity

Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer including disabled and veterans.

Contact and Application: For more information visit our website at