Company Overview
Cascadia Scientific empowers mining operations with independent, precision-grounded energy insights, enabling safer, smarter, and more sustainable decisions. Our mission is to reveal the true drivers of energy use and waste, improve cost per ton, strengthen fleet performance, and support operational decisions with actionable intelligence.
At Cascadia, you’ll join a tight-knit, values-driven team committed to professionalism, empathy, and innovation. We work collaboratively to solve high-impact problems and support efficient, sustainable mining. Your contributions will directly influence real-world outcomes and help shape the future of the industry.
Cascadia Scientific is a fast-growing scale-up business with approximately 50 employees. The successful candidate must be capable of executing independently and at a high level in a fast-paced environment.
Position Summary
As Lead Electronics Design & Manufacturing Engineer, you will own the complete life cycle of Cascadia’s ruggedized electronic products deployed on some of the world’s largest mining haul trucks in some of the world’s largest mining operations. You will be responsible for hardware design, product reliability, manufacturing oversight, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and technical support throughout the product lifecycle.
This is a highly hands-on role suited to an experienced engineer who enjoys taking products from concept through deployment and continuous improvement. You will work closely with software developers, contract manufacturers, suppliers, and field personnel to ensure our products meet the demanding reliability requirements of remote mining operations.
The successful candidate will have strong experience in PCB design, CAN/J1939-based vehicle electronics, manufacturing support, and troubleshooting complex field issues. Experience developing products for harsh operating environments subject to vibration, temperature extremes, electrical noise, and mechanical shock is highly desirable.
Hardware Design & Development
- Lead the design, prototyping, and development of electronic hardware products and sub-assemblies.
- Maintain and update engineering documentation including design specifications, drawings, and records.
- Evaluate new components and technologies to improve product performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Design end-to-end hardware solutions, including schematic capture, PCB layout, creation of Bills of Materials (BOMs), and mechanical enclosure design for ruggedized mining environments.
- Design and document complex wiring harnesses, ensuring manufacturability and compliance with automotive and industrial communication protocols.
- Apply Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Testability (DFT) principles to improve production quality, consistency, and serviceability.
Production Planning & Management
- Coordinate production schedules with contract manufacturers and internal stakeholders to meet customer delivery timelines and inventory levels.
- Coordinate procurement activities and support supplier selection, qualification, and component sourcing decisions.
- Coordinate testing and shipping workflows to ensure products are fulfilled accurately and on schedule.
- Provide detailed manufacturing instructions to external fabricators; act as the primary technical point of contact to resolve supplier queries regarding drawings and assembly procedures.
- Collaborate with receiving inspection teams to ensure incoming components and finished goods meet high-quality standards.
Quality Control
- Define and enforce quality standards across all stages of production and assembly.
- Develop and maintain testing protocols to validate hardware performance before deployment.
- Investigate and resolve production defects, field failures, and customer-reported quality issues.
- Maintain audit-ready quality records and documentation.
- Perform failure analysis on field-returned units to identify root causes and implement corrective design or process improvements.
- Work with suppliers and contract manufacturers to investigate quality issues and implement corrective actions.
- Own the product reliability program including Environmental Stress Screening (ESS), thermal cycling, field failure analysis, corrective action tracking, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Work with the Technical Operations team to develop and maintain reliability metrics and testing methodologies to ensure long-term product performance in demanding mining environments.
Process Optimization
- Identify inefficiencies across engineering and production workflows and implement measurable improvements.
- Establish and monitor KPIs for throughput, yield, lead time, and cost per unit.
- Develop scalable processes to support Cascadia’s growth without compromising quality or delivery.
Product Configuration & Field Support
- Configure, reconfigure, and manage all deployed products remotely and in collaboration with field teams.
- Support diagnostic and maintenance requests from customers, providing timely and effective resolution.
- Partner with the sales and customer success teams to provide technical guidance and pre/post-installation support.
- Maintain strict configuration control and change management documentation; update and streamline bench test procedures to optimize failure detection and diagnostic efficiency.
- Provide technical support to field technicians, translating field feedback into updated engineering drawings and installation procedures.
Safety & Compliance
- Ensure all production activities comply with relevant health, safety, and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure products meet applicable certifications and industry standards.
- Manage the end-to-end regulatory certification process (FCC, CE, etc.) and support international product homologation.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of experience designing, manufacturing, and supporting electronic hardware products in industrial, automotive, mobile equipment, or similarly demanding environments.
- Proven experience designing multi-layer PCB’s and electronic assemblies for production, including schematic capture, PCB layout, component selection, BOM creation, and design documentation.
- Experience working with external PCB fabrication, assembly, and contract manufacturing partners.
- Experience troubleshooting field failure and conducting root-cause investigations resulting in design, process, or supplier corrective actions
- Experience with CAN bus and SAE J1939 communication systems
- Experience supporting CE compliance programs and preparing technical documentation required for Declarations of Conformity
- Familiarity with embedded firmware development sufficient to diagnose issues, review code changes, and implement minor modifications when required
- Experience developing products for harsh operating environments involving vibration, temperature extremes, moisture, dust, and electrical noise
- Experience creating both mechanical and harness drawings
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Caterpillar CDL, Komatsu systems, or other heavy equipment communication protocols
- Experience designing electronics for mining, construction, forestry, agricultural, transportation, or other off-highway equipment
- Experience with environmental testing, ESS, HALT, thermal cycling, vibration testing, or reliability engineering
- Experience with FCC certification and international product approvals
- Experience using Easy-PC PCB design software
Pay: $100,000.00-$120,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision care
Application question(s):
- How many years of PCB design experience do you have?
- Do you currently require sponsorship to work in Canada?
- What is the highest level of education you have completed?
Work Location: In person
