Senior Electrical Engineer
Ametek Inc/
Oak Ridge, TN · Posted October 10, 2026
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About the job
AMETEK is a leading global provider of differentiated electronic instruments and electromechanical devices. The Senior Electrical Engineer will be responsible for the electronic design and development of Ortec brand nuclear instrumentation and measurement systems used for radiation detection and radioisotope identification. The position entails all types of board-level circuit design with an emphasis on mixed signal circuit design including low noise amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters as well as digital and power supply design. The Senior Electrical Engineer will: Conceptualize, design, simulate, implement and validate low noise electronics using mixed signal, analog, digital and software development techniques. Execute schematic capture, feasibility and prototyping, PCB bring-up, debugging, verification testing, and performance characterization of new designs. Electronic system design and integration of components such as displays, touch panels and batteries. Support compliance testing and documentation. Provide technical assistance to Manufacturing and Customer Service Team with Marketing to align product design and performance specifications to overall product requirements. Develop and/or implement new technologies to address market opportunities. The Senior Electrical Engineer will have: BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent required. MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent preferred. 8+ years of relevant electronics design experience. Mixed signal and/or analog circuit design experience including amplifier circuits, active and passive filters, transistor circuits, linear and switching power supplies, impedance matching and transformation, and A/D converters. Digital circuit (logic) design: Microprocessors, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). Implementation of digital signal processing for systems. Electronic design and simulation software (Schematic capture, SPICE, etc). System level software/hardware integration Designing high accuracy and low noise measurement circuits, including component selection, schematic capture, modeling, and layout techniques. Electronic design and component selection for cryogenic temperatures. Designing instrumentation for nuclear measurements.