Electrical Engineer

Bring your ideas, curiosity, and engineering expertise to a team where innovation takes flight.

AMETEK PDS is looking for an Electrical Engineer to join our exceptional and growing engineering team in Harleysville, PA. You’ll work on advanced aircraft power distribution systems where quality, reliability, and innovative engineering are critical to every design. If you enjoy tackling technical challenges, collaborating with talented engineers, and seeing your ideas contribute to sophisticated aerospace products, this is an exciting opportunity to grow your career and make an impact.

We’re looking for an engineer who is curious, collaborative, and excited to make a meaningful contribution. While quality and reliability are at the heart of everything we do, we also believe great engineering happens in an environment that encourages creativity, innovation, teamwork, and a little fun along the way.

Responsibilities:

Performs detailed electronic design, troubleshooting, validation, and qualification of power, analog, and digital circuits including microprocessor and EPLD-based systems design

Utilizing digital skills to produce the required Built-In-Testing coverage and achieve the data rates and responsiveness required to interrupt faults and report information to the cockpit

Regularly interface with other engineering disciplines, both local and remote, to perform development and design validation activities

Supports manufacturing activities during prototype builds, executing startup and DVT testing of new designs, and the completion of detailed FTA and FMECA analysis.

Provides technical product support and troubleshooting as necessary to manufacturing, customers and end users

Leverages knowledge of aircraft electrical system concepts and aerospace industry standards to develop system architectures

Researches, recommends, and develops technologies, processes, and methods to meet both customer and AMETEK goals

Analyzes and decomposes customer requirements into design requirements while ensuring compliance with safety, redundance, and reliability requirements

Responsible for the high-level coordination of cross-functional engineering teams during all phases of system integration testing

Prepares technical proposals and cost estimates

Required Skills and Experience:

Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering

Minimum of 3-5 yrs of relevant engineering design work experience

Demonstrated ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and to reduce costs. The successful candidate must be able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.

Experience designing analog, digital, microprocessor, and high-power AC/DC circuits

A track record of on-time delivery of project milestones

Ability to produce accurate, detailed electronic schematics

Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, dataloggers, analyzers, programmable waveform generators, power supplies, and programmable loads

Ability to write technical requirements

Strong problem-solving skills

Excellent attention to detail

Positive, can-do attitude

Great communication and documentation skills

Preferred Skills and Experience:

Airborne electronic hardware development experience using DO-160 and DO-254.

Experience with one or more of the following: I2C, SPI, RS485, CANBus, ARINC 429

Schematic capture using Altium

Some programming experience preferred. (C, C++, C#, Python, Visual Basic, or other)

Requirements capture using DOORS

Familiarity with ARP-4754A