We are looking for a talented Electronics Design Engineer II to join the Nordson EFD product design team. In this role you will be responsible for designing, developing, and debugging electrical hardware for electro-mechanical systems that enables precision manufacturing processes and medical fluid handling. You will work on complex hardware-software interaction problems that require strong analytical and data driven approaches to make our products smarter, connected, and intelligent.
How YOU will make an impact:
- Develop mixed signal circuits (microcontroller/FPGA/power conversion/analog) for embedded controllers to serve mission critical industrial and life science applications.
- Help develop system architecture using single board computers (SBCs), custom circuit boards and off the shelf communication interfaces.
- Collaborate with firmware engineers to develop code utilizing Python, C, C++, HDL, and assembly languages.
- Create design verification and validation plans, oversee execution of tests, analyze results, debug failures, and support product safety and electromagnetic compliance certification.
- Participate in new technology evaluations, voice of customer exercises, competitive benchmarking and production launch support.
Qualifications To Be Successful:
- Master’s in Electrical Engineering or Bachelors plus 3-5 years industry experience.
- Experience working on electro-mechanical products with embedded systems, real time control and digital communication interfaces.
- Knowledge of designing circuits for DC-DC Converters, Voltage Regulators, Driver circuits for actuators, digital communications, EMC/safety compliance and sensor data acquisition that include microcontrollers, FPGA’s or Single board computers (SBC’s)
- Experience in circuit simulation, schematic capture, BOM creation, and PCB layouts using OrCAD (with EDM) or similar CAD software with integrated design data management capabilities.
- Familiarity with firmware development.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a global team.
What We Offer:
- Flexible work hours.
- Benefits include Employee Group Medical Insurance, Group Term Life Insurance, Group Personal Accident Insurance.
- Annual cash bonus based on personal & company performance.
- In addition to paid time off and paid holidays, each employee receives 16 hours of paid time each calendar year to perform volunteer services in our communities.
Working Conditions and Physical Demands: Office environment. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Travel Required: Estimated 10%
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering plus 3–5 years of industry experience
- Experience with electro-mechanical products, embedded systems, real-time control, and digital communication interfaces
- Knowledge of DC-DC converters, voltage regulators, actuator driver circuits, digital communications, EMC and safety compliance, and sensor data acquisition
- Experience with microcontrollers, FPGAs, or single-board computers
- Experience with circuit simulation, schematic capture, BOM creation, and PCB layout
- Experience using OrCAD with EDM or similar CAD software with integrated design data management
- Familiarity with firmware development
- Ability to collaborate with a global team
Nordson Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) features automatic enrollment at 6%, a 50% match on up to 6% of pay, and an additional 3% company contribution for eligible U.S. employees even without employee contributions. Feedback suggests this retirement structure is above what many mid-size manufacturers offer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays and a typical year-end shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s at many U.S. locations expand time off beyond standard PTO. Feedback suggests this shutdown is a distinctive work-life perk, though availability can vary by site or business unit.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Volunteer release time and a 3:1 charitable gift-matching program are offered alongside recognition programs, tuition assistance, and community initiatives. Feedback suggests these elements add value beyond core insurance and PTO.
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What We Do
Nordson is a team of 7,300 global employees thriving in an environment where they are supported and encouraged to be their best. Working side by side, we build meaningful connections with each other and our customers. Together, we deliver products that are solutions, and they’re likely touching your life every day. Have you ever changed a diaper? Opened a box of cereal? Used a smart phone or driven a car? Then we’ve already met. At Nordson, we take pride in being an outstanding corporate citizen and strongly believe in sharing our success with the communities where our employees live and work. Whether you’re working in one of our labs, offices or manufacturing facilities, your efforts will enable our customers to succeed and our company to continuously improve and grow. We engineer, manufacture and market differentiated products and systems used for precision dispensing and processing in a variety of end markets, from packaging to transportation and medical to electronics. Founded in 1954, we operate under the values of integrity, respect for people, customer passion, energy and excellence. Nordson is headquartered in the United States in Westlake, Ohio, and has direct operations in more than 30 countries to support our products and systems with application expertise and a direct global sales and service organization
