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Embark on an enriching journey with PROCEPT BioRobotics, where our vision, mission, and values guide everything we do as a company. At PROCEPT, we put the patient first in everything we do and are committed to revolutionizing treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH, otherwise known as prostate gland enlargement) through innovation in surgical robotics. As our company succeeds and grows, we improve the quality of life of patients, provide more effective treatment options for surgeons, uphold the trust of our shareholders. That starts with a commitment to our People with a focus on creating an evolving landscape for your career, brimming with transformative opportunities that provide continuous career growth opportunities.
Understanding PROCEPT's Culture
At PROCEPT, we believe every person matters. Every employee, every patient, every caregiver. Because we are here to create a revolution, and we believe in doing that by innovating everywhere with pathological optimism. We believe in being humble and highly engaged in the work we do, while also working together seamlessly for a common goal. At PROCEPT, curiosity, ingenuity, and conviction in the power of technology will transform the lives of our patients and providers.
And this doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with our live induction program that serves as an incubator for cross-functional team building, an immersion in PROCEPT’s history, jam-packed interactive sessions with executive leadership, and a crash course in the mission and purpose of what we do. It continues with our one-of-a-kind management program designed to build the best managers in the industry, where our people managers across functions come together to exchange ideas and grow, as both managers and learners, in an environment that challenges, supports, and broadens.
We are fueled by the opportunity to give people their lives back. And we believe that it begins with YOU! At PROCEPT, we push beyond just finding a work/life balance; we strive to find a work/life blend, a professional world that you are honored and impassioned to belong to, one that you can proudly share with your family, friends, and acquaintances.
An opportunity at PROCEPT BioRobotics won’t just be about finding a job. It will be an opportunity for you to join a community devoted to making a difference in this world!
The Opportunity That Awaits You:
We could tell you this is the opportunity of a lifetime to put your engineering skills to work improving the health and quality of life of dads, uncles, grandfathers, and countless others. But then we’d have far too many applicants!
Instead, we are looking for just the right seasoned electrical engineer to join our talented and highly collaborative team, and that might be you.
You are skilled in analog design and power electronics, enjoy getting your hands on PCBAs in the lab, and are equally comfortable improving an existing design or developing something from scratch. You thrive on technical challenges and have excellent attention to detail. You’re just as comfortable presenting a schematic and layout review to a cross-functional group as you are developing new error codes with your firmware neighbor, reviewing in-circuit test limits for a PCBA, or running a temperature study. You understand that documentation and processes come with the territory in a highly regulated medical device environment. You are the one others turn to for technical guidance, whether it’s making tough design decisions, mentoring a fellow engineer, or helping the team through a challenging problem.
And the best part? While you are solving interesting engineering problems alongside a great team, your work can make a real difference in people’s lives!
What Your Day-To-Day Will Involve:
- Design, develop, test, maintain, and document electrical systems for PROCEPT’s products in accordance with PROCEPT’s quality system.
- Work within a small R&D electrical engineering team to develop new products and support capital equipment and accessories.
- Serve as the EE subject matter expert on multiple electronics subassemblies used within PROCEPT’s electromechanical capital equipment, including controllers and interfaces with power supplies, sensors, pumps, motors, cables, and wiring harnesses.
- Serve as the technical lead for a capital equipment module, owning the electrical and power electronics design, providing coordination with the cross-functional team of firmware, mechanical, test, and manufacturing, and maintaining oversight of project schedules and BOM costs.
- Own the electrical architecture for new products and develop electrical requirements that align with user needs and system-level specifications.
- Support Supplier Engineering and/or Supply Chain with specification, evaluation, and analysis of alternate components and second-source suppliers.
- Ensure electrical designs account for mechanical and software interfaces, reliability, testability, manufacturability, and usability.
- Lead electrical design risk assessments, including design failure modes and effects analysis (dFMEA).
- Document the electrical design with hardware requirements specification, hardware design descriptions, drawings and specifications, including component specifications.
- Work with Design Quality Assurance to develop design verification plans, protocols, test methods, and test reports.
- Release documents through Engineering Change Orders via Document Control.
- Support the development of manufacturing procedures, fixtures, and test systems, ensuring suitability for production transfer.
- Participate in product design and development reviews and product phase reviews.
- Create or provide input for project schedules.
- Troubleshoot electrical and system-level issues, including debugging, root cause investigation, and failure analysis.
- Provide support for agency testing: UL, CE, and applicable IEC 60601 standards.
- Serve as an electrical engineering subject matter expert during regulatory audits, as needed.
- Mentor and occasionally supervise more junior engineers, technicians, and consultants' work product.
- Maintain trained status for, and comply with, all relevant aspects of the PROCEPT BioRobotics Quality Management System to ensure product and support regulatory compliance.
- Understand and adhere to the PROCEPT BioRobotics Quality and EHS policies.
The Qualifications We Need You to Possess
- Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering. Advanced degrees preferred.
- Minimum of 12+ years related experience and/or training.
- Knowledge and experience with power supply, high voltage designs, motor controls.
- Skilled with mixed signal (analog and digital) design and working with Microcontroller systems.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a flexible approach to handling multiple projects.
- Proven experience with DFx – design for signal integrity, EMI, test, manufacturing, yield, usability.
- Proficient with PCBA design with Altium Designer, OrCAD, or similar.
- Ability to work within and influence a cross-functional environment with mechanical, firmware, software, systems, manufacturing, and quality engineers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Has a positive attitude and takes initiative.
- Ability to work in a lab environment and operate typical lab instruments, such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, waveform generators, etc.
- Comfortable with document control, requirements tracking, bug tracking.
- Work onsite.
The Qualifications We Would Like You to Possess
- Medical device, biotech, or other heavily regulated industry background strongly desired.
- Knowledge and experience with robotic systems.
- Previous experience with EMC, electrical safety testing to IEC 60601.
- Ability to operate hipot / leakage current / ground bond / ESD simulator / LISN test equipment.
- Understanding of radio regulations, common emitters, wireless coexistence.
- Ability to write embedded pseudocode.
Sr. Staff Electrical Engineer Salary Range: $194,920 - $229,320
Principle Electrical Engineer Salary Range: $225,270 - $265,020
COMPANY CULTURE
Understanding PROCEPT's Culture
At PROCEPT, we believe every person matters. Every employee, every patient, every caregiver. Because we are here to create a revolution, and we believe in doing that by innovating everywhere with pathological optimism. We believe in being humble and highly engaged in the work we do, while also working together seamlessly for a common goal. At PROCEPT, curiosity, ingenuity, and conviction in the power of technology will transform the lives of our patients and providers.
And this doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with our live induction program that serves as an incubator for cross-functional team building, an immersion in PROCEPT’s history, jam-packed interactive sessions with executive leadership, and a crash course in the mission and purpose of what we do. It continues with our one-of-a-kind management program designed to build the best managers in the industry, where our people managers across functions come together to exchange ideas and grow, as both managers and learners, in an environment that challenges, supports, and broadens.
We are fueled by the opportunity to give people their lives back. And we believe that it begins with YOU! At PROCEPT, we push beyond just finding a work/life balance; we strive to find a work/life blend, a professional world that you are honored and impassioned to belong to, one that you can proudly share with your family, friends, and acquaintances.
An opportunity at PROCEPT BioRobotics won’t just be about finding a job. It will be an opportunity for you to join a community devoted to making a difference in this world!
BENEFITS OF WORKING AT PROCEPT!
PROCEPT’s health and wellness benefits for employees are second to none in the industry. As an organization, one of our top priorities is to maintain the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes full medical coverage, wellness programs, on-site gym, a 401(k) plan with employer match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, flexible or paid time off, paid parental leave, paid holidays, and many more!
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT
PROCEPT BioRobotics is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, age, or any other protected status set forth in federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.
PAY RANGE TRANSPARENCY
PROCEPT is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role represents a base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, PROCEPT utilizes the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
We’ll provide you training for, and ask you to maintain trained status for, and comply with, all relevant aspects of the PROCEPT BioRobotics Quality Management System to ensure product and support regulatory compliance. We would also ask you to understand and adhere to the PROCEPT BioRobotics Quality & EHS policies.
PROCEPT BioRobotics – Applicant Privacy Notice
When you submit an application on this site, PROCEPT BioRobotics collects the personal information you provide. This may include your name, email address, phone number, résumé or CV, LinkedIn profile, and any optional demographic information you choose to share, such as gender or ethnicity. We use this information to review your application and assess your suitability for the role.
To learn more about how we handle personal information, including your rights under applicable privacy regulations, please read our full Privacy Notice at: [Privacy Policy].
Pay Range for this role:
$225,270 to $265,020
Company Overview
Embark on an enriching journey with PROCEPT BioRobotics, where our vision, mission, and values guide everything we do as a company. At PROCEPT, we put the patient first in everything we do and are committed to revolutionizing treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH, otherwise known as prostate gland enlargement) through innovation in surgical robotics. As our company succeeds and grows, we improve the quality of life of patients, provide more effective treatment options for surgeons, uphold the trust of our shareholders. That starts with a commitment to our People with a focus on creating an evolving landscape for your career, brimming with transformative opportunities that provide continuous career growth opportunities.
Understanding PROCEPT's Culture
At PROCEPT, we believe every person matters. Every employee, every patient, every caregiver. Because we are here to create a revolution, and we believe in doing that by innovating everywhere with pathological optimism. We believe in being humble and highly engaged in the work we do, while also working together seamlessly for a common goal. At PROCEPT, curiosity, ingenuity, and conviction in the power of technology will transform the lives of our patients and providers.
And this doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with our live induction program that serves as an incubator for cross-functional team building, an immersion in PROCEPT’s history, jam-packed interactive sessions with executive leadership, and a crash course in the mission and purpose of what we do. It continues with our one-of-a-kind management program designed to build the best managers in the industry, where our people managers across functions come together to exchange ideas and grow, as both managers and learners, in an environment that challenges, supports, and broadens.
We are fueled by the opportunity to give people their lives back. And we believe that it begins with YOU! At PROCEPT, we push beyond just finding a work/life balance; we strive to find a work/life blend, a professional world that you are honored and impassioned to belong to, one that you can proudly share with your family, friends, and acquaintances.
An opportunity at PROCEPT BioRobotics won’t just be about finding a job. It will be an opportunity for you to join a community devoted to making a difference in this world!
The Opportunity That Awaits You:
We could tell you this is the opportunity of a lifetime to put your engineering skills to work improving the health and quality of life of dads, uncles, grandfathers, and countless others. But then we’d have far too many applicants!
Instead, we are looking for just the right seasoned electrical engineer to join our talented and highly collaborative team, and that might be you.
You are skilled in analog design and power electronics, enjoy getting your hands on PCBAs in the lab, and are equally comfortable improving an existing design or developing something from scratch. You thrive on technical challenges and have excellent attention to detail. You’re just as comfortable presenting a schematic and layout review to a cross-functional group as you are developing new error codes with your firmware neighbor, reviewing in-circuit test limits for a PCBA, or running a temperature study. You understand that documentation and processes come with the territory in a highly regulated medical device environment. You are the one others turn to for technical guidance, whether it’s making tough design decisions, mentoring a fellow engineer, or helping the team through a challenging problem.
And the best part? While you are solving interesting engineering problems alongside a great team, your work can make a real difference in people’s lives!
What Your Day-To-Day Will Involve:
- Design, develop, test, maintain, and document electrical systems for PROCEPT’s products in accordance with PROCEPT’s quality system.
- Work within a small R&D electrical engineering team to develop new products and support capital equipment and accessories.
- Serve as the EE subject matter expert on multiple electronics subassemblies used within PROCEPT’s electromechanical capital equipment, including controllers and interfaces with power supplies, sensors, pumps, motors, cables, and wiring harnesses.
- Serve as the technical lead for a capital equipment module, owning the electrical and power electronics design, providing coordination with the cross-functional team of firmware, mechanical, test, and manufacturing, and maintaining oversight of project schedules and BOM costs.
- Own the electrical architecture for new products and develop electrical requirements that align with user needs and system-level specifications.
- Support Supplier Engineering and/or Supply Chain with specification, evaluation, and analysis of alternate components and second-source suppliers.
- Ensure electrical designs account for mechanical and software interfaces, reliability, testability, manufacturability, and usability.
- Lead electrical design risk assessments, including design failure modes and effects analysis (dFMEA).
- Document the electrical design with hardware requirements specification, hardware design descriptions, drawings and specifications, including component specifications.
- Work with Design Quality Assurance to develop design verification plans, protocols, test methods, and test reports.
- Release documents through Engineering Change Orders via Document Control.
- Support the development of manufacturing procedures, fixtures, and test systems, ensuring suitability for production transfer.
- Participate in product design and development reviews and product phase reviews.
- Create or provide input for project schedules.
- Troubleshoot electrical and system-level issues, including debugging, root cause investigation, and failure analysis.
- Provide support for agency testing: UL, CE, and applicable IEC 60601 standards.
- Serve as an electrical engineering subject matter expert during regulatory audits, as needed.
- Mentor and occasionally supervise more junior engineers, technicians, and consultants' work product.
- Maintain trained status for, and comply with, all relevant aspects of the PROCEPT BioRobotics Quality Management System to ensure product and support regulatory compliance.
- Understand and adhere to the PROCEPT BioRobotics Quality and EHS policies.
The Qualifications We Need You to Possess
- Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering. Advanced degrees preferred.
- Minimum of 12+ years related experience and/or training.
- Knowledge and experience with power supply, high voltage designs, motor controls.
- Skilled with mixed signal (analog and digital) design and working with Microcontroller systems.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a flexible approach to handling multiple projects.
- Proven experience with DFx – design for signal integrity, EMI, test, manufacturing, yield, usability.
- Proficient with PCBA design with Altium Designer, OrCAD, or similar.
- Ability to work within and influence a cross-functional environment with mechanical, firmware, software, systems, manufacturing, and quality engineers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Has a positive attitude and takes initiative.
- Ability to work in a lab environment and operate typical lab instruments, such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, waveform generators, etc.
- Comfortable with document control, requirements tracking, bug tracking.
- Work onsite.
The Qualifications We Would Like You to Possess
- Medical device, biotech, or other heavily regulated industry background strongly desired.
- Knowledge and experience with robotic systems.
- Previous experience with EMC, electrical safety testing to IEC 60601.
- Ability to operate hipot / leakage current / ground bond / ESD simulator / LISN test equipment.
- Understanding of radio regulations, common emitters, wireless coexistence.
- Ability to write embedded pseudocode.
Sr. Staff Electrical Engineer Salary Range: $194,920 - $229,320
Principle Electrical Engineer Salary Range: $225,270 - $265,020
COMPANY CULTURE
Understanding PROCEPT's Culture
At PROCEPT, we believe every person matters. Every employee, every patient, every caregiver. Because we are here to create a revolution, and we believe in doing that by innovating everywhere with pathological optimism. We believe in being humble and highly engaged in the work we do, while also working together seamlessly for a common goal. At PROCEPT, curiosity, ingenuity, and conviction in the power of technology will transform the lives of our patients and providers.
And this doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with our live induction program that serves as an incubator for cross-functional team building, an immersion in PROCEPT’s history, jam-packed interactive sessions with executive leadership, and a crash course in the mission and purpose of what we do. It continues with our one-of-a-kind management program designed to build the best managers in the industry, where our people managers across functions come together to exchange ideas and grow, as both managers and learners, in an environment that challenges, supports, and broadens.
We are fueled by the opportunity to give people their lives back. And we believe that it begins with YOU! At PROCEPT, we push beyond just finding a work/life balance; we strive to find a work/life blend, a professional world that you are honored and impassioned to belong to, one that you can proudly share with your family, friends, and acquaintances.
An opportunity at PROCEPT BioRobotics won’t just be about finding a job. It will be an opportunity for you to join a community devoted to making a difference in this world!
BENEFITS OF WORKING AT PROCEPT!
PROCEPT’s health and wellness benefits for employees are second to none in the industry. As an organization, one of our top priorities is to maintain the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes full medical coverage, wellness programs, on-site gym, a 401(k) plan with employer match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, flexible or paid time off, paid parental leave, paid holidays, and many more!
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT
PROCEPT BioRobotics is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, age, or any other protected status set forth in federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.
PAY RANGE TRANSPARENCY
PROCEPT is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role represents a base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, PROCEPT utilizes the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
We’ll provide you training for, and ask you to maintain trained status for, and comply with, all relevant aspects of the PROCEPT BioRobotics Quality Management System to ensure product and support regulatory compliance. We would also ask you to understand and adhere to the PROCEPT BioRobotics Quality & EHS policies.
PROCEPT BioRobotics – Applicant Privacy Notice
When you submit an application on this site, PROCEPT BioRobotics collects the personal information you provide. This may include your name, email address, phone number, résumé or CV, LinkedIn profile, and any optional demographic information you choose to share, such as gender or ethnicity. We use this information to review your application and assess your suitability for the role.
To learn more about how we handle personal information, including your rights under applicable privacy regulations, please read our full Privacy Notice at: [Privacy Policy].
Pay Range for this role:
$225,270 to $265,020
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Align your credentials to PERM requirements
PERM requires your employer to define a minimum job requirement before advertising. Make sure your degree and professional engineering licensure match what the role genuinely requires, so DOL's recruitment test doesn't create a discrepancy your employer must explain.
Use O*NET to frame your occupation
Principal Electrical Engineer roles span multiple SOC codes on O*NET. Confirm which code your employer intends to use for PERM before filing begins, since the SOC code drives the prevailing wage determination and shapes the job description DOL will scrutinize.
Verify prevailing wage before accepting an offer
Run the OFLC Wage Search for your SOC code, geographic area, and experience level before you negotiate compensation. PERM locks in a wage requirement your employer must meet throughout the process, and an offer below the prevailing wage will cause the application to fail.
Find sponsors through Migrate Mate
Target employers with a documented history of employment-based green card sponsorship for engineering roles. Migrate Mate lists U.S. employers with verified green card sponsorship history, searchable by role and location, so you're not applying blind to companies that have never sponsored before.
Ask about priority date strategy during interviews
If you're a national of a high-demand country, ask prospective employers whether they file I-140 petitions promptly after PERM certification, since an approved I-140 locks in your priority date even if you later change employers under AC21 portability rules.
Distinguish EB-2 and EB-3 filing paths early
If you hold a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive electrical engineering experience, you may qualify under EB-2 without a master's degree. Clarifying this with your employer before PERM is drafted determines which category's priority date queue you enter from day one.
Green Card Principal Electrical Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for Principal Electrical Engineers?
Green card sponsorship leads to lawful permanent residence, while H-1B visa is a temporary status requiring renewal. For Principal Electrical Engineers, the employer must complete PERM labor certification with the DOL, proving no qualified U.S. workers are available, before filing the I-140 petition with USCIS. There is no lottery, but per-country numerical limits mean nationals from high-demand countries can face priority-date backlogs before they can file for adjustment of status or consular processing.
What does the PERM process involve for a Principal Electrical Engineer role?
Your employer files a PERM application with DOL after completing a prevailing wage determination and a formal recruitment test, which includes advertising the position in specific channels for a defined period. The job description must reflect genuine minimum requirements for the role. If DOL certifies the PERM, the employer then files the I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS. The entire process typically precedes your ability to file for adjustment of status or consular processing.
Can I change employers mid-process after my employer files for my green card?
Once your I-485 adjustment-of-status application has been pending for at least 180 days and the underlying I-140 petition was approved, AC21 job portability allows you to move to a new employer in the same or a similar occupation without abandoning your place in the queue. Your priority date from the approved I-140 can also transfer to a new employer's petition, so years already earned are not lost.
How do I find Principal Electrical Engineer jobs where the employer will sponsor a green card?
Many employers willing to sponsor a green card have prior PERM filing history, which is a strong signal of genuine sponsorship capacity. Migrate Mate lists employers with verified green card sponsorship history by role and location, letting you identify companies that have navigated the PERM and I-140 process before rather than those encountering it for the first time.
Does having a PE license or master's degree affect which EB category my employer files under?
A master's degree in electrical engineering or a related field supports an EB-2 filing directly. A bachelor's degree paired with at least five years of progressive electrical engineering experience can also qualify for EB-2 under USCIS guidelines. Without either, the role typically falls under EB-3. The category determines which priority date queue applies, which matters significantly for nationals of high-demand countries facing backlogs.