Cricut® makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy-to-use app, an ever-growing collection of materials, and crafting essentials to help you design and personalize almost anything — custom cards, unique apparel, everyday items, and so much more.

Let’s make.

Overview

We believe everyone is born creative. We’re a diverse tapestry of thinkers, dreamers, givers, DIYers, handi-workers, artisans, and forever and always architects of things.

At Cricut, we place the power of handmade into the hands of all. We give you beautiful, easy-to-master tools so you can make something unique, remarkable, perfect. We surround you with ideas, community, inspiration, and encouragement to take your creativity further than you ever imagined. And as a community, we celebrate the exhilarating act of making every single day.

So, make that handcrafted card that feels like a hug. Design a shirt for fun, for family, or for a full-blown business. Craft with a passion or for a purpose. Make something big and bold, itsy-bitsy, amazingly ambitious, or just plain silly. Whatever you make, just make your heart out. Because here’s the remarkable truth: When we all make together, we make all things possible.

Let’s make.

Cricut is an exciting, rapidly growing multidisciplinary engineering work environment where we strive to delight customers with new innovations. At Cricut we help people lead creative lives by providing tools to make their do-it-yourself projects beautiful, fun, and easy.

Summary: We are looking for an Electrical Engineering Manager, with a focus on technical capabilities and leadership, to lead a team of Electrical Engineers and technicians, and to facilitate the rapid development, prototyping, and debugging of our products. This position requires both leading a team as well as hands on development and design ownership.

The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership, establishing technical design and quality standards. Develop team members. Drive innovation and problem solving. Develop new designs, review and approve team members’ new designs and production design changes. Define, conduct and review verification and validation testing. Work well in dynamic team environments, collaborate with matrix project teams and collaborate with sourcing on strategic procurement efforts.

Optional direct team management depending on the candidate.

Duties/Activities:

• Lead technical teams through new product development/introduction, root cause analysis and issue resolution.
• Establish electrical design architecture and review and approve new designs and design changes.
• Ensure best practices for PCB and system level architecture.
• Mentor and upskill other engineers and technicians.
• Work cross functionally in a matrix organization.
• Communicate advanced technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Prioritize and manage workload for self and team.
• Design and development of mixed analog & digital circuits for new products.
• Design motor control circuits for both stepper and servo motors, solenoids, sensors, etc.
• Develop HW interfaces for USB, Bluetooth, and wireless communications.
• Specify and select microcontrollers and other board level components.
• Develop PCB schematics and board artwork.
• Develop ICT and FCT test plans.
• Ensure products pass EMI testing per FCC and CE requirements.
• Ensure products meet applicable UL and CE safety standards.
• Oversee start of production on electrical systems.
• Work with International teams requiring work hours flexibility.
• Write and review comprehensive test plans for new designs and design modifications/changes.
• Hold team status meetings, 1:1 meetings with individual team members, and individual performance reviews’.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• At least 15 years experience in digital/analog board design.
• Experience with consumer electronics.
• Working knowledge of microprocessor, motor control, I/O devices, memory types and usage, USB, SPI, I2C, serial, A/D, D/A, etc.
• Working knowledge of various types of sensors and analog circuits supporting them.
• Debugging skills and experience with Linux kernel .
• Experience with board-level debug & bring-up.
• Working knowledge of WIFI, Bluetooth, NFC, and other forms of RF communications.
• Antenna and RF design including RF fields and propagation.
• Working knowledge of regulatory standards and compliance requirements for worldwide product distribution.
• Knowledge of PCB fabrication processes and specifications and ability to communicate concerns to contract manufacturers.
• Able to monitor and provide feedback for SMT and other PCBA assembly practices.

Preferred Skills:

• Ability to define critical project criteria.
• Ability to draw solutions from both formal training and experience.
• Ability to work independently and within a team environment.
• Working knowledge of Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyzer, Network Analyzer, Multimeter, Protocol Analyzer, and other test equipment.
• Working knowledge of electronic CAD tools (Altium preferred).
• Some firmware design experience helpful.
• Experience with FPGA, CPLD, or other programmable logic devices.
• Experience with High Voltage Power Supplies
• Simulation and analysis software such as Matlab or Octave.
• Field solvers, SPICE, or other simulation software.
• Experience with statistical analysis and tools (Minitab).
• Labview or other test automation experience.
• Proficient in C/C++
• Experience with Linux

What to Do Next:

Please attach your resume including links to your portfolio where applicable. If you want to show your super powers in other ways – include that information too. You can be sure that Cricut® is an employer who values individuality, equality and diversity, so tell us what you’re all about. If you are a Maker or a DIY enthusiast, whether you think you are a good one or not, we would love to hear about it when you send us your information!

At Cricut®, we celebrate inclusion and diversity. Cricut is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions based on merit. Cricut prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual identity, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, nationality, citizenship, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, or any other unlawful consideration. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Cricut participates in E-Verify.