Sr Applied Research and Development Engineer Full time - Direct Hire - Career Position Salary based on experience Onsite - Champaign, IL area - relocation assistance Open to people living in the US Legal US persons only: Must be currently and indefinitely eligible to work for the any employer in the US without sponsorship This is an outstanding hands-on, in lab full product development position. Here you will OWN full-lifecycle product development from concept to delivery! With a company that for 15 years has been serving as a High-Tech R&D complex multi-industry products manufacturer.

As a Senior Engineer you will work with, particle accelerator/pulsed power/surface solutions original-design products manufacturer servicing multiple industries globally, you will lead programs/product development as researcher and/or principal investigator for SBIR/STTR projects; develop, test, guide experimentation, analyze, present at technical conferences, & publish! Responsibility Highlights ? Guide/manage applied engineering team from early R&D through prototyping ? Develop laboratory, prototype design, production research strategies ? Customer/supplier/development partner technical reporting/resource allocation ? Customers/users requirement development improving desired outcomes ? Investigator for SBIR/STTR projects & IRAD programs REQUIREMENTS: Degree in Electrical Engineering or Plasma Engineering or Material Science Bachelor's or Masters Degree with 5 years or more industrial experience PhD with 3 years or more industrial experience, after graduation With prototyping & production facility work backgrounds in one of these: Thin-Film Material Deposition/Etch & Micro/Nanomaterials Analysis Plasma Sources/Ion Beams/RF Accelerators High-Voltage Electronics/Switched-Mode Power Supply Design OTHER EXPERIENCE AND NICE TO HAVES: ? DC/DC & AC/DC at kV levels, IGBT techniques, PWM control/power modeling ? PCB design, layout/BOM (Altium/KiCAD) ? LDMOS/high-voltage GaN RF/LCR design/LT SPICE ? Radiofrequency Particle Accelerator or Quadrupole (RFQ) experience ? RF/microwave circuit/cavity/antenna design or 3D electro simulation (Sonnet, COMSOL, CST Microwave Studio, Ansys HFSS) ? High power tube amplifiers; pulsed RF/microwave circuits ? Mechanical design/SolidWorks ? CNC mill, PCB fab, machine shop ? MCAD/ECAD ? UL, CAS, SEMI, IEC or CE design/test.