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Company Description
INFICON is a global leader in instrumentation, sensor technologies, and Smart Manufacturing solutions that help customers improve productivity, quality, and operational performance across semiconductor, industrial, life science, and advanced manufacturing markets.
Job Description
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced people leader and Electrical Engineering Manager who is passionate about developing talented engineers and building high-performing teams.
You will lead INFICON's Electrical Engineering team in Syracuse, NY, which designs the precision electronics at the heart of our sensor and instrumentation products. The team works across the full spectrum of electronics: high-precision analog circuits, digital systems, RF electronics, power supplies, PCB layout, component selection, and prototype testing — from breadboard-level MVPs delivered directly into customer hands to series production designs. We measure currents in the nanoampere range and capacitances in the femtofarad range, and we ship these circuits into products used in fabrication of the most advanced semiconductors, medical devices, automotive, energy and security applications, space exploration, and more.
As the team matures, you'll help shape how we adopt AI tools in electronics workflows, lead lean product discovery with customers, and help support component lifecycle and supply chain strategy — but your foundation is building an exceptional team and providing senior technical leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and coach a team of electrical engineers spanning analog, digital, power, and RF design.
- Build individual development plans with every team member and support their growth on either the professional engineering or the leadership career track.
- Foster psychological safety, a growth mindset, and a culture where experimentation, including experiments that don't work out, is celebrated.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, give meaningful feedback, and champion your team's professional development across the organization.
- Provide hands-on technical guidance in high-precision analog design, digital electronics, RF systems, signal processing, precision power supplies, embedded systems, PCB layout, and compliance.
- Review and approve engineering designs, test plans, and documentation.
- Champion a lean, hypothesis-driven approach: build breadboard MVPs, get them into customers' hands, validate assumptions, and iterate.
- Drive Agile practices (Scrum or Kanban) and communicate effectively across hardware, software, mechanical, and product functions.
- Stay current with emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools, new component technologies, and design methodologies, and help the team evaluate how they could change how we work.
Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
Required Skills & Experience
- 7+ years of experience in electronics engineering, with 2+ years in a leadership or senior technical lead role.
- Hands-on experience in analog and digital circuit design, RF design, and/or high-precision measurement.
- Experience taking products from concept through production and maintaining the product lifecycle.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or similar).
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Experience with precision analog electronics design.
- Curiosity about what's beyond electronics: You are excited about working with physicists, chemists, materials scientists, software and mechanical engineers to bring a product vision to life.
- A genuine passion for developing people as professionals and future leaders, not just technically.
Additional Information
The expected salary range for this position is between $140,000 and $180,000 per year. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law. In addition, INFICON employees are eligible for a profit-sharing bonus with a target of 10% as well as 401K match up to 8% (vesting schedule). For the right candidate, this role could be eligible for a sign on bonus and/or relocation reimubrsement.
INFICON provides a dynamic work environment that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our employees experience ongoing green initiatives, flexible work hours, and a variety of health and wellness programs.
INFICON’s forward-thinking approach offers countless opportunities to design, support, and manufacture a diverse product portfolio that expands globally. Our Lean and Agile work environment offers competitive compensation, relocation assistance, a discretionary bonus, and generous employee benefits; major medical, dental, health, vision, 401K, vacation and sick time, tuition reimbursement, and more!
INFICON is committed to ensuring that our online application process provides an equal opportunity to all job seekers that apply without regard to race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, age, protected veteran status, disability status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. A notice describing Federal equal employment opportunity laws is available here to reaffirm this commitment. Any contact that would like to request a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process should contact [email protected].
INFICON, Inc. strictly complies with all aspects of the Export Administration Regulations ('EAR'), including those sections dealing with deemed exports to foreign nationals.
