Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do.
SharkNinja (creator of the familiar household brands Shark® and Ninja®) offers a fun and fast-paced work environment with countless opportunities for employees to grow as professionals. From interns to executives, we are a group of passionate, smart and motivated people with a drive to learn, innovate and succeed. This is all thanks to our devoted employees and their steadfast commitments to the consumer and innovation.
The expanding Electronics Group at SharkNinja will be looking for a dynamic, creative, inspirational and committed Electrical Engineer to lead and deliver an extraordinary pipeline of new Ninja products. This role will focus on team management and embedded electronic design and product development for our ambitious product roadmap of kitchen appliance products.
The successful candidate will have experience in analog and digital embedded design, power electronics, including both hardware (schematic capture and PCB layout) and firmware (C and ASM), preferably in consumer products or similar. This team member will participate in ideas on how to best use electronics to comply with marketing and engineering requirements and support overall development from conceptualization to implementation of new products. This engineer will be directly involved in the design and building of prototypes that will drive new products to expand and improve our costumer experience with Ninja brand products.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Contributing to project work directly through architecture, schematics and software design while supporting product testing, EMC and compliance testing.
- Designing and developing consumer product electronics from initial concept to on-going product support within our global development organization.
- Collaborating with our global multi-disciplinary teams to define, design, build, and test our next generation products from initial conception to mass production with new ideas and outside-of-the-box engineering solutions.
- Collaborating with other engineering disciplines and Product Marketing to provide initial cost estimates for EBOM, as well as final product implementation based upon thorough analysis of product requirements.
- Supporting field products and performing analysis of field-reported issues.
- Leading electronics hardware and software peer design reviews for your product area. Thinking critically about new product concepts and asking the provocative questions necessary for positive change
- Generating test protocols and test reports per SharkNinja specifications
- Designing and building prototypes to test and validate new concepts or create new development tools
- Reviewing and interpreting test results
- Providing feedback on product improvement solutions
Functional Skills & Knowledge:
- Ability to work in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment
- Ability to work independently and in a team, demonstrating initiative with minimal guidance
- Solid analytical skills with a strong attention to detail
- Ability to analyze test results and data, synthesize conclusions, and communicate up and across with clarity and critical writing skills.
- Good interpersonal and leadership qualities and self-awareness.
Desired Technical Competencies:
- Power electronics AC, DC power management, switching, EMI
- Driving and controlling thermal heating elements, AC and DC motors up to 2hp, PD, PID controllers.
- Understanding of sensors and sensing techniques, NTC, PTC, Accelerometers.
- Understanding of power switching with relay and mechanical contacts as well as solid state.
- Embedded controllers like STM32 and busses I2C, SMB, SPI.
- Familiarity with Lithium-Ion battery packs and cap sense technologies is a plus
- Experience with embedded software development, compilers, IDE’s, JIRA, SVN is a plus
- Experience with wireless communication standards like BLE is a plus
Education & Experience:
- BS in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
- 5-7 years of relevant experience in a technical leadership role involving the design, development and delivery of motor drive and heating focused products.
- Previous industry experiences working for a consumer products company or a consultant company in the consumer goods space is highly desirable.
- Experience in all aspects of electrical design: component selection, system architecture, documentation, test and debugging
- Comfortable in both analog and digital domains
- Experience in the use of analysis/measurement tools such as oscilloscopes, data loggers, electronic loads, and spectrum analyzers.
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At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja’s innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA. YOUR ROLE in leading our SUCCESS DRIVERS & representing our UNIQUE MINDSET- Lead us to be “RARELY SATISFIED”
- Make things better each day; “PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION”
- Use your knowledge of our consumer, understand that “DETAILS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE”
- Deliver something great; “WINNING IS A TEAM SPORT”
- Be clear and honest, “COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT”
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other class protected by legislation, and local law. SharkNinja will consider reasonable accommodations consistent with legislation, and local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact SharkNinja People & Culture at accommodations@sharkninja.com
