Littelfuse Hiring for Senior Electrical Engineer at Rapid City, SD Full Time

Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.

Situated in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota, our Rapid City office is the home of our relays design team. This group focuses on products for circuit protection and safety such as Ground Fault Relays and Neutral Ground Resistor monitors. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you as Senior Electrical Engineer will be responsible for developing a new solid state industrial control platform for the Industrial Business Unit.

Roles and Responsibilities

Design and build prototypes and production electronic systems, including circuit design, PCB layout, and design validation.

Apply a scientific approach to engineering design problems by creating experiments, collecting and analyzing data, and making informed decisions.

Design clean sheet, new to market, solid state industrial control platform.

Apply innovative design techniques to a solve a variety of engineering challenges.

Debug hardware in laboratory environment with common lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters.

Collaborate with Manufacturing and other teams as needed to develop high quality, reliable hardware for our customers.

Required Qualifications

BS Degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or related field.

Minimum 5 years of experience in electronics design role.

Strong ability to communicate with other engineers, management, and external customers over both written and verbal communication.

Excellent analytical skills and demonstrable knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals.

Proficient in a schematic capture and PCB layout tool (preference to Altium).

Experience with mixed signal design a must.

Bonus Skills

Experience with embedded design.

Experience with line-voltage or high-power electronics.

Experience using Python or other scripting language.

Knowledge of UL Standards / Certification.

Littelfuse strives to empower associate growth and development in a culture of ongoing collaboration and respect for diverse global perspectives and expertise. Our Core Values – Customer Focus, Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Results Driven – supports us on our mission to improve the safety, reliability, efficiency, and performance of our customers’ products and systems.

We are an equal opportunity employer that takes pride in giving every associate the means and courage to make a difference – everywhere, every day.

We offer a flexible work environment and competitive salary package and a variety of benefits, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, Disability and Retirement benefits as well as development opportunities like internal Lean Six Sigma Certification.

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