Job Description

Sr. Electrical Engineer

Our Win-Win Proposition at Kitchen Brains

 

 

 

Ours is a company in transition from our long-established success in manufacturing to an integrated, contemporary IoT platform of hardware and software solutions.  We seek committed professionals to join us in our pursuit of excellence in the way we capture market share, innovate products and solutions, serve our clients and reinforce our brand.  In return, we provide challenge, opportunity, learning, career development and satisfaction to our employees.   This is an intentional, win-win proposition aimed at fostering a culture of success for all of our stakeholders.

                                                                                                                       

Kitchen Brains is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.

 

• KITCHEN BRAINS (kitchenbrains.com)

Founded nearly 45 years ago, Kitchen Brains has been continuously focused on helping restaurants across the globe deliver hot, fresh food to their clientele. The Company began as a manufacturer of timing and control devices that can be deployed individually or in unison by commercial foods operators to assure efficiencies in the preparation and delivery of meals. Today, these manufactured products are supported and integrated by Kitchen Brains’ Genius Suite of wireless solutions, coupled with its SaaS, dashboard KPIs and other business intelligence solutions. We have expanded our product portfolio with the application software that brings the Internet of Things (IoT) to foodservice operations. Our goal is to help our customers “Put a Genius on the Menu.” Kitchen Brains’ products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries.

 

 

 

Essential Responsibilities

• Design hardware for microcontroller based controller systems
• Design systems that meet product requirement specifications
• Extensive knowledge of analog and digital embedded designs
• Knowledge of Touchscreen designs and designs that incorporate touch screen displays
• Design IoT interfaces using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Lora wireless interfaces
• Plan and coordinate with testing agencies to meet industry standards (such as UL, ETL and TUV)
• Develop robust solutions that are tolerant of harsh environments and abnormal use cases such as shorts EMC, ESD, and environmental extremes.
• Collaborate cross functionally to investigate, root-cause, and solve technical issues

 

Required Skills, Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical engineering.
• Masters Degree or Computer Science degree a plus
• Stay abreast of new technologies and react to changes in a fast-paced environment.
• 5 or more years of experience in all or most of the following design activities
• Author electrical designs and schematics and apply the dFMEA method
• Create circuit functions to meet normal, Fault Detection, and Fault Recourse functions.
• Microprocessors, op-amps, power supplies, connectors, multi-layer PCB lay-out best-practice.
• Spice or other circuit simulation.
• Open/ short/ ESD/ EMC protection for both low level signals and relay circuits.
• Must have launched products with PCB’s into production
• FCC, UL, IEC, CE, NSF Regulatory Requirements

 

 

 

• ABOUT OUR BENEFITS

 

In addition to competitive compensation, Kitchen Brains offers its employees a benefits package that includes:  employee and family health, dental and vision coverage, flexible spending accounts, company-paid life insurance, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability benefits, and a 401(k) plan with company match.    Additional benefits include education reimbursement and access to fitness facilities.