Lead Electrical Engineer

The Equipment & Connected Solutions team, part of Ecolab’s Research, Development and Engineering organization, designs innovative control, dispensing, and sensor instrumentation systems to improve customer value, user experience, and safety. The Lead Electrical Engineer supports all Ecolab businesses, creating a dynamic, challenging, and varied work environment. The primary focus of the position is new product development of advanced control, sensor, and monitoring systems.

What’s In It For You:

• Opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy, and healthy environments

• Ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth and opportunity

• Support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best

• Contribute to the research and development of differentiated technologies, products, processes, and systems

What You Will Do:

• Lead the electrical design of embedded control systems and wireless/connected products, from requirements through schematic capture, PCB layout, circuit simulation/modeling, bring-up, and design iteration

• Partner with cross-functional teams (firmware, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, quality) to develop, optimize, and qualify designs that meet customer requirements, cost targets, and reliability expectations

• Plan and support global compliance activities (eg. UL, CE, EMC, and wireless), including pre-compliance design reviews, test planning, lab coordination, and driving regulatory issue resolution with internal and external partners

• Collaborate with internal and external research teams to evaluate new control and sensor technologies, prototype concepts, and transition successful solutions into robust product designs

• Work with contract manufacturers and suppliers to ensure PCBA builds meet quality, manufacturability (DFM/DFT), and test/continuity objectives; support pilot builds and production ramp as needed

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field and 6 years of related experience in electrical engineering circuit design; or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field and 4 year(s) of experience in electrical engineering circuit design

• Experience with schematic capture and electrical CAD tools

• Immigration sponsorship not available

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience designing embedded hardware (schematics, PCB layout, bring-up, debug)

• Demonstrated technical leadership  (e.g., establishing design best practices, improving development processes, or leading technical reviews across a team)

• Experience designing with microprocessors/microcontrollers and/or System-on-Module (SoM) platforms

• Experience with embedded wireless/IoT product design (e.g., Bluetooth LE, Wi‑Fi) including integration, certification considerations, and troubleshooting

• Proficiency with Altium Designer for schematic capture and PCB layout

• Power and I/O circuit design experience for control applications through implementation of: AC/DC inputs, DC/DC conversion, protection, sensing, drivers/actuators

• Experience with common communication interfaces/protocols (e.g., RS‑485, CAN/CANopen, I2C, SPI, UART, Bluetooth 5.0, IEEE 802.11)

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to explain technical topics to cross-functional and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience designing for and supporting regulatory compliance activities (safety, EMC, and wireless) including test planning, lab coordination, and issue resolution

• Demonstrated ability to own designs end-to-end, drive work to closure, and troubleshoot complex system-level issues

• Ability to implement or modify embedded firmware in C to support hardware bring-up, feature development, and debug (in collaboration with firmware engineers)

• Moderate-complexity wire harness design (connector selection, pinouts, routing, and documentation)

• Track record of mentoring and providing technical guidance to early-career engineers

The base salary range for this position is $107,600.00 - $161,500.00. This position is eligible for annual bonus pay based on performance, per plan terms. Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.

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