Mechanical Engineer

Jewell Instruments produces robust inertial sensors used to measure tilt and acceleration with extreme precision in many different applications worldwide. These applications include military, aerospace, geophysical and industrial applications requiring high accuracy. Jewell also specializes in custom solutions and designs products to meet the specific requirements of its customer’s applications. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Interprets marketing or customer product requirements into functional specifications and designs and develops products to these specifications.
• Designs and implements closed loop, servo control systems for electro-mechanical applications.  Designs include system design and modeling using CAD software. 
• Responsible for layout and packaging for standard and customer specific analog and digital products.   Use of CAD software in support of layout and design work. Familiar with ANSI Y-14.5 Geometric Tolerancing.
• Works with lab technicians, design technicians, as the team leader and people in other departments to meet project goals and deliverables.
• Participates in customer contact during either pre-sale or application support.
• Responds and provides engineering consultations to Product Management, Sales, Production Control, Manufacturing and Quality Control as required.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (B. A. or B.S.) from a four-year college or university and ten to fifteen years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• Some experience in the design and development of controls for electromechanical acceleration sensing products or experience in other electromechanical devices with associated servo motion control. 
• Digital panel meters, digital signal processing utilizing real-time functionality windows based application and embedded systems development.
• Electromechanical systems design.  Including but not limited to, permanent magnet devices.
• Analog circuit design. Including but not limited to, familiarity with analog active filters, operational amplifiers.
• Control systems design.  Including but not limited to, servo design, lead/lag compensation. Programmable controls instrumentation.