Electrical Engineer

Axon Axon · Enterprise · Belgium · Remote · 2021 SH R&D

Electrical Engineer role focused on designing and prototyping electronic boards and systems for mission-critical robots (UAVs, UGVs) within the Axon Robotics team. Requires 5+ years of experience in embedded systems design, proficiency with EDA tools, test equipment, and programming languages like C and Python for test firmware. The role involves R&D, schematic/PCB design, prototyping, testing, and supporting manufacturing.

What you'd actually do

  1. Participate in research and development of our next generation products
  2. Design schematic, PCBs, test, verify prototypes and assist the Firmware and Software Engineering Teams in bringing up new boards
  3. Design and build custom test systems for measuring the performance of our electronics systems
  4. Test and measure boards, multi-board assemblies and electronic components such as batteries, motors, etc.
  5. Support manufacturing and follow up designs when changes are required due to component obsolescence or unavailability

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
  • 5+ years of industry-leading electronics design experience with emphasis on designing densely populated, tightly packaged, battery-powered embedded systems.
  • Comfortable using test equipment such as DMM, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer
  • Excellent hands-on skills: able to assemble board prototypes with lab equipment
  • Excellent all-round electronics knowledge, from analog to digital
  • Proficient doing multi-layer PCB layouts and/or rigid-flex designs
  • Awareness of EMC and signal integrity issues and best practices as they relate to PCB design
  • Knowledge of at least one EDA package: Altium Designer and/or Cadence OrCAD
  • Knowledge of the C and Python programming languages for test firmware development
  • English proficiency required

Nice to have

  • French and or Dutch are a plus
  • Any experience with the following is a plus:
  • Passion for Drones and Robots

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of industry-leading electronics design experience with emphasis on designing densely populated, tightly packaged, battery-powered embedded systems.