
Principal Electrical Design Engineer
Development Resource Group, Inc.
Maple Grove, MNContract$100–130K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Senior/Principal Electrical Engineer develops electronic products and systems, from architecture and circuit design through prototyping, testing, and verification. The role includes analyzing customer needs, creating schematics and technical documents, supporting PCB layout, and coordinating with engineering, management, and project teams. The posting seeks experience with Altium, microprocessor-based platforms, embedded software, analog and digital circuits, and sensitive analog design; signal integrity and regulated-industry experience are highly desired.
Skills & qualifications
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Qualifications
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Full job description
Job Duties
The Senior/Principal Electrical Engineer will be responsible for the development of new products, including electronic architecture design, detailed circuit design and analysis, prototyping, implementing designs, test, and discovering innovative solutions to complex problems and systems.
Primary Responsibilities:
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Performs detailed electronic designs for electronic components, products, or systems for commercial, industrial applications.
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Analyzes customer needs and determines electrical system requirements and cost to develop a system plan. Ability to evaluate current systems/processes to recommend design modifications or equipment repair/updates.
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Develop testing procedures for electronic components and equipment; includes leading and supporting prototype build and test activities.
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Writes technical documents such as design specifications, verification test plans and reports.
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Plans and develops applications and modifications for electronic properties used in parts and systems to improve technical performance.
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Develops reliable, cost effective, manufacturable electronic products from initial studying of customer requirements through conducting and documenting design validation and verification activities.
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Performs circuit analysis, simulations and concept/feasibility design activities.
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Conducts design analysis on components and/or assemblies.
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Creates detailed block diagrams & circuit schematics.
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Leads and/or supports printed circuit board layout and/or other product activities.
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Practices good engineering design process; version control, lead design reviews, documented design history, complete projects within budgetary and scheduling goals.
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Works and communicates with management team, engineering team, and/or project managers to ensure projects are completed satisfactorily, on time, and within budget.
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Supports project planning and project proposal efforts.
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Presents verbally in one-on-one or group settings.
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Responsible for following all ISO quality systems and procedures.
Minimum Education Required
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or equivalent; or five to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum Experience Required
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Experience with Altium schematic capture.
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Must have experience working with microprocessor-based platforms, embedded software, analog and digital circuits, and experience with sensitive analog circuit design and analog design tools such as SPICE.
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Knowledge of signal integrity concepts, simulation tools, and with compliance and regulations, i.e. IEC 60601-1 and ISO 14971 risk management, highly desired.
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Bachelor’s degree and experience in new product development, ranging from requirements development to prototyping, to verification and product release, preferred.
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Experience in medical device and/or other regulated industries, and project management experience preferred.
Shift
First (Day)
Number of Openings
1
Public Transportation Accessible
No
Veterans Encouraged to Apply
Yes
Physical Required
No
Drug Test Required
No
Compensation
$100,000.00 - $130,000.00 / Annually
Postal Code
55369
Job Type
Contract (W2)
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
6780
Job Benefits
Health Insurance, Life Insurance, 401k retirement plan, paid sick time
Application Instructions
If interested and qualified, please submit your resume to [email protected] or visit our website to apply: http://dr-group.com/find-engineering-technical-jobs/
How this job compares
Set against the 10,342 open Electrical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$100–130K/yr
- Minnesota median$100–150K/yr182 salary ranges
- US median$106–166K/yr6,756 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $115K, is 7% below the Minnesota median midpoint ($123K) — in the middle half of Electrical Engineer salary ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 215 open Electrical Engineer jobs in Minnesota and 10,342 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Minnesota
- CDM Smith20 open
- Black & Veatch14 open
- Actalent10 open
- Experience
- Electrical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (8,600 postings).
- Education
- 6,615 of the 10,342 open Electrical Engineer jobs (64%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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