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Senior Electrical Design Engineer - This top-level position on PMC's Engineering team requires a candidate with proven experience in embedded design and development, FPGA design tools and experience designing microprocessor-based board-level products that are cost-effective, reliable, and suitable for high volume manufacturing. Any motion control and/or management experience is a plus.

Responsibilities:

Identify new technologies and product opportunities and help to define new product specifications. Support product management to define, determine feasibility and prioritize new product requirements and specifications.
Create detailed circuit, PCB layout, FPGA and firmware designs that meet product requirements and manufacturing, cost, and project objectives.
Develop design verification test strategies, and define manufacturing test and process requirements to ensure product quality and production requirements.
Responsible for generation and modification of all electrical engineering documentation including, schematics, BOM's, manuals, and other product release documents.
Provide sustaining engineering support to contract manufacturers.
Work with customers to solve engineering related issues.

Required Experience and Skills:

Experience in designing microprocessor based embedded systems. Familiarity with MIPS architecture and implementation a big plus.
Proven ability to use communication protocols such as PCI, Ethernet, modem and RS-232 in circuit design.
Must be a hands-on engineer, with extensive laboratory experience debugging and characterizing high-speed digital circuits and use of the latest laboratory test equipment such as high-speed digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and bus exercisers/analyzers.
Experience in component selection and qualification.
Some familiarity with MCU firmware development and development tools is required.
Experience with ISO-9000 and solving circuit and system-level EMI problems to meet EMC requirements a plus.
Working knowledge of schematic capture and PCB layout.
Expertise in using Altium Designer and Xilinx ISE tools a plus.
Experience with embedded Real-Time Operating Systems such as RTEMS or embedded Linux, C/C++ a plus.
Any experience with automation, robotics or motion control systems is a big plus.
Minimum 5 years experience and BSEE degree or eqivalent are required.

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Application Engineer - This key technical position in PMC's Sales & Marketing group requires excellent oral and written communication skills, 2+ years experience with integration and programming of automation and/or computer systems, and some travel. Motion control and/or industrial automation experience a big plus.

Responsibilities:

Provide pre-sales and post-sales technical support. Help PMC customers to select, configure, connect, program, debug and deploy PMC motion controllers. Occasional travel to customer sites is required.
Provide competitive analyses and technical feedback on an ongoing basis to help meet PMC's objectives for continual product improvement.
Assist with marketing research, sales-promotion and lead follow-up.
Contribute to PMC's product manuals, tech notes and other product documentation.
Develop and present compelling product demo's and technical presentations at customer sites and trade shows.

Required Experience and Skills:

Must be an excellent communicator.
Must be proactive and self-directed. Must be willing to take the initiative in anticipating needs and responding with creative solutions without management direction.
Must have excellent technical, analytical and troubleshooting skills.
Experience and knowledge of PC-based and/or embedded hardware and software technologies is required.
Some C/C++ programming experience and familiarity with Visual Basic is required.
Field sales/support and/or industrial control system experience is a plus.
Experience with electro-mechanical, mechatronics, robotics or motion control systems is a big plus.
An undergraduate degree in Engineering, Physics, or Computer Science is highly desirable.

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PMC offers competitive salaries & benefits in a beautiful Southern California setting. E-mail your resume to , fax it to (760) 930-0222, or snail mail it to 3132 Tiger Run Court, Suite 114, Carlsbad CA 92011.