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Lead Electrical Engineer

@ GDKN Corp.

Mississauga, Ontario

On-siteContract5+ years experience
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Overview

GDKN Corp. is hiring a contract Lead Electrical Engineer to lead product-level hardware design, analysis and verification for a hardware development team. The work covers trade studies, low-power digital and analog circuit design, requirements management in DOORS, design reviews and customer interfacing.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead product-level hardware design, analysis and verification
  • Perform trade studies and circuit design and analysis
  • Develop low-level requirements and manage changes in DOORS
  • Conduct technical presentations and participate in design reviews
  • Investigate hardware failures and drive permanent corrective action

Requirements summary:

  • Electronics engineering degree or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of electronics design in aerospace or a regulated sector
  • Proficiency in low-power digital circuit design
  • Experience with ECAD tools (Mentor Graphics preferred)
  • Familiarity with EMC design and qualification

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Employer posting date
2026-10-23
First seen by our source
2026-10-23
Source record updated
2026-10-23

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Job details

SeniorityLead
DepartmentEngineering
Experience5+ years
Work settingOffice, Laboratory
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish
EducationBachelor’s degree (required)
Fields of studyElectronics Engineering

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Company Description

The staffing solutions division of GDKN is a leading provider of end-to-end solutions in the temporary staffing space. With companies across the globe laying critical emphasis on their human resources management, demand for temporary staffing is rapidly growing because it improves focus on core/critical activities and can be adapted to the seasonal nature of business, addresses business uncertainties and the demand for rapid growth. In short, temporary staffing creates a very nimble human capital platform which allows organizations to maximize their productivity and flexibility at all times.

GDKN is one of the very few minority business enterprises in North America that has the status of Preferred vendor with world’s largest corporations in various industries including:

  • Electric
  • Gas
  • Telephone Utilities
  • Manufacturing
  • Defense
  • Banking/Financial,
  • Information Technology
  • Healthcare/Pharmaceutical

Having worked with a multitude of the world’s largest clients, GDKN has gained significant expertise in providing staffing solutions which are specifically targeted to meet our client’s unique needs with a highly innovative tactical and strategic approach and extensive capabilities for scalability and flexibility.

Our staffing solutions focus on every detailed aspect of a business and ensure that you have the perfect talent for your critical business needs. We keep adapting and expanding to ensure that we always surpass our client’s expectations.

Our staffing solutions division has access to an unparalleled pool of candidates from which our dedicated team rigorously screen and evaluate to ensure ideal human resources are identified for our client’s unique needs. Our dedicated team is the group of certified experts many of which have years of experience in their related field of expertise.

We do not just focus on finding the perfect talent for our clients; we allow them to focus on growing their business and achieving their goals by ensuring that we adhere to the strictest labor compliance standards.

Our activities are compliant with the laws prevailing in the countries and municipalities we do business in and our team of labor law experts ensures that your organization is compliant with all current applicable labor regulations. Labor Law Compliance Management is an important component of our business which we continue to keep as a top priority.

With over 20 years in the staffing industry, highly customizable staffing solutions, unparalleled sourcing methodology and global capabilities, we are uniquely equipped to identify the right talent for your organization. GDKN will provide your organization with the flexibility to staff up or down, depending on your business needs.

Job Description

Description:

Q\A

1. Do you have experience designing low-power electronic circuits and/or systems, including microprocessor-based, digital, and analog circuit designs?

If yes, please provide a summary of your electrical design experience, including:

Types of circuits and systems you have designed, the end application or product in which the design was used and key components and technologies utilized

Your specific role and technical contributions

2. Have you conducted trade studies for concept selection, technology evaluation, or product architecture development?

If yes, please describe a specific trade study you performed, including the design challenge or decision being evaluated, evaluation criteria, methodology used and final recommendation and outcome

3. Can you share an example of a technical presentation, design review, or engineering review that you led or presented?

4. What types of circuit analysis, modeling, simulation, or validation activities did you perform before releasing a design for prototype build or production?

Please explain the analysis methods used, key design risks identified and corrective actions taken

5. Have you led electrical, multidisciplinary, or product development teams?

If yes, please describe team size and composition, your leadership responsibilities, project scope and complexity and key technical or project outcomes achieved under your leadership

6. Do you have experience identifying and resolving EMI/EMC issues?

If yes, please provide an example of a particularly challenging EMI/EMC issue you encountered and resolved.

Selected candidate is expected to perform one or more of the following tasks:

• Lead and/or perform the product level design, analysis and verification activities of a Hardware Development team

• Perform trade studies in concept selection, product architecture design and analysis; electronics circuit (mixed signal and/or power supply) design and analysis

• Develop low level requirement documents and manage requirement changes using DOORS

• Work closely with design team in implementing the design while ensuring process adherence

• Perform or coordinate the tasks including creating test procedures, development / verification testing, documentation, resolution of technical problems.

• Conduct technical presentations and participating in design reviews.

• Hardware team focal for interfacing with customer and/or other functional groups

• Provide support to manufacturing, investigate hardware failures and identify root causes and permanent corrective action by working with internal and external customers.

• Provide support to task planning, preparation of schedules and estimates, metric collection and program statusing.

• Must be proactive and be able to work with limited direction, well organized, possess good communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to handle multiple tasks at any time through proper prioritization and schedule management.

• Knowledge of FPGA design and/or hands-on experience with complex analog circuit design is considered a strong asset.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in Electronics Engineering or a related discipline.

• 5+ years of electronics design experience within aerospace or another highly regulated sector (e.g., nuclear, rail).

• Strong understanding of electronics design principles and industry best practices.

• Proficient in low power digital circuit design.

• Solid understanding of low frequency analogue interface design.

• Experience using industry standard ECAD tools (Mentor Graphics preferred).

• Knowledge of DFM (Design for Manufacture) and DFT (Design for Test) methodologies.

• Familiarity with EMC design and qualification requirements.

• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities.

• Excellent communication skills with strong attention to detail.

• Experience in prited wiring board (PWB / PCB) is a definite asset

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