Principal Electrical Engineer

This role requires a recognized technical authority who leads through vision, deep expertise, and influence across the organization. If you are driven to architect complex systems, mentor senior engineers, and shape longterm technology direction across platforms and portfolios, we invite you to apply. This is a hybrid role in Denver, CO.

Responsibilities:

• Own and architect electrical platforms and product architectures across programs, ensuring scalability, performance, safety, and longterm sustainability.
• Serve as lead Electrical Engineer on critical programs, driving feasibility studies, research, prototyping, supplier engagement, schematic capture, PCB strategy, and coordination with external test houses.
• Define longterm electrical and systems technology strategy, driving innovation across multidisciplinary platforms and influencing product roadmaps to align technical direction with business and portfolio objectives.
• Lead architecture and design of complex systems, including power, RF, mixedsignal, and energydelivery subsystems, with emphasis on EMC, patient safety, and regulatory compliance.
• Establish and govern testing standards, methodologies, and lab capabilities, including defining required test equipment and ensuring technical rigor and consistency across programs.
• Oversee risk management, reliability, and robustness strategies across multiple platforms, guiding systemlevel tradeoffs and mitigation of technical and regulatory risk.
• Provide senior technical leadership and governance, leading major design reviews and serving as a trusted advisor for project planning, prioritization, scope, and architectural decisions.
• Ensure global regulatory and documentation alignment, mentoring teams on standards, FDA expectations, audits, documentation governance, PLM strategy, and lifecycle compliance.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent across disciplines, providing advanced technical guidance in electrical design, systems integration, compliance, and structured experimentation.
• Represent Electrical Engineering at the enterprise level, leading crossorganizational collaborations, communities of practice, and influencing multiteam technical execution.

Required Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field
• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership across complex electrical systems and product platforms OR Master's degree with 8+ years of engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership across complex electrical systems and product platforms.

Other Attributes:

• Extensive experience working in regulated product development environments (e.g., FDA 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485, IEC 60601).
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple crossfunctional teams, influencing outcomes at the project, program, or platform level.
• Strong working knowledge of medical device design controls, risk management, and regulatorydriven engineering requirements.
• Experience working in a regulated industry

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering or closely related technical discipline.
• Lead DFM strategies for PCB fabrication, assembly, lifecycle, and test.
• Govern highquality technical documentation for reviews, validation, and regulatory submissions.
• Apply statistical methods to guide reliability, verification, and risk decisions.
• Lead ECAD-MCAD integration and resolve complex electromechanical system challenges.
• Technical leadership in RF amplifier design, analysis, and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with Altium Designer
• Familiarity with Windchill
• Familiarity with MATLAB

0-20% Travel

Disclosure as required by applicable law, the annual salary range for this position is $130,654 - $209,980. The actual compensation may vary based on geographic location, work experience, education, and skill level. The salary range is CONMED's good faith belief at the time of this posting.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship.

This job posting is anticipated to close on May 29, 2026. We may, however, extend this time period, in which case the posting will remain available on careers.conmed.com. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis as we receive them.

Benefits:

CONMED offers a wide array of benefits to fit your unique needs. Visit our Benefits Page for more information.

• Competitive compensation
• Excellent healthcare including medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage
• Short & long term disability plus life insurance -- cost paid fully by CONMED
• Retirement Savings Plan (401K) -- CONMED matches your contributions dollar for dollar, with the potential for up to 7% per pay period
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan -- allows stock purchases at discounted price
• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate level courses

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CONMED is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic. Protected veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. The Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Poster reaffirms this commitment.

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