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Build the electronics behind precision solar measurement products used around the world. Imagine yourself… • Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.  • Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project.  • Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.  It’s possible with a role at Kipp & Zonen , where you’ll have the chance to shape the future of your career—and the future of our planet. At Kipp & Zonen, a Veralto company, you’ll help advance trusted instruments for solar and atmospheric measurement—powering smarter decisions across climate research, road weather, and renewable energy. Since 1830, Kipp & Zonen has helped customers solve environmental challenges with precise, dependable data that drives safer, smarter, and more sustainable outcomes. Join Kipp & Zonen and Veralto to do meaningful work, grow your skills, and build a career with real impact. We offer: • Flexible working hours • Professional onboarding and training options • Powerful team looking forward to working with you • Career coaching and development opportunities • Health benefits • 401(k) We are looking for an Electrical Engineer to join a collaborative Austin-based team with the backing, mentoring, and resources of a global organization. This role supports precision solar measurement products, including RD300i, Mars, and Cell Wash, and is ideal for an electrical engineer who enjoys hands-on product ownership from concept and PCB design through bring-up, validation, NPI, production support, and sustainment . This is a full-time, on-site position in Austin, Texas (in North Central Austin near The Domain). What you will own • Design and improve mixed-signal and embedded electronic hardware, including schematic capture, PCB design, and layout review. • Collaborate closely with firmware engineers to design, validate, and bring up devices, troubleshoot system-level issues, and support reliable product performance. • Contribute across the full product lifecycle, from ideation and prototypes to productization, manufacturing readiness, release, and ongoing sustainment. • Partner with production, test, quality, and manufacturing teams to diagnose issues, support new product introduction, and drive lasting corrective actions. • Work hands-on in the lab with instrumentation, test setups, calibration methods, and troubleshooting tools to improve consistency, yield, and throughput. • Support products designed for demanding field environments, including outdoor exposure, temperature variation, compliance needs, and customer-site performance. What you bring • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related STEM field, such as hardware engineering, computer engineering, physics, or computer science, with strong applied electrical engineering experience. • 5+ years of hands-on electrical engineering or product hardware experience. • Experience taking hardware from prototype through validation and into production or field support. • Strong fundamentals in PCB design, schematics, analog/digital circuits, microcontrollers, and hardware/firmware interfaces; direct sensor experience is helpful but trainable. • Confidence using oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, signal generators, soldering, and rework tools. • Clear communication skills, including the ability to explain electrical engineering concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, and a collaborative approach aligned with Veralto’s focus on inclusion, belonging, ownership, and continuous improvement. Experience that would help you stand out Solar, renewable energy, meteorology, industrial instrumentation, outdoor or rugged electronics. Why join • A close-knit Austin team with the support, mentors, and expertise of Veralto’s global organization. • Meaningful ownership across the full product lifecycle, from ideas and prototypes to globally deployed products. • Opportunity to work on niche solar measurement products that help customers monitor module performance, soiling, and field conditions. • A hands-on role where your design judgment, lab work, production partnership, and problem-solving directly influence customer outcomes. Kipp & Zonen is proud to be part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5.5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility : where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way. US ONLY : The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. The compensation range for this role is $110,000 - $130,000 USD per year. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees. Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law. US residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. Veralto Corporation and all Veralto Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. We value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes. The EEO posters are available here . We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at applyassistance@veralto.com to request accommodation. Unsolicited Assistance We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at any of the Veralto companies , in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Veralto and its companies. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Veralto and its companies because of the unsolicited referral.

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Build the electronics behind precision solar measurement products used around the world.
Imagine yourself…
Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project.
Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.
It’s possible with a role at Kipp & Zonen , where you’ll have the chance to shape the future of your career—and the future of our planet.
At Kipp & Zonen, a Veralto company, you’ll help advance trusted instruments for solar and atmospheric measurement—powering smarter decisions across climate research, road weather, and renewable energy.
Since 1830, Kipp & Zonen has helped customers solve environmental challenges with precise, dependable data that drives safer, smarter, and more sustainable outcomes.
Join Kipp & Zonen and Veralto to do meaningful work, grow your skills, and build a career with real impact.
Flexible working hours
Professional onboarding and training options
Powerful team looking forward to working with you
Career coaching and development opportunities
This is a full-time, on-site position in Austin, Texas (in North Central Austin near The Domain).
What you will own
Design and improve mixed-signal and embedded electronic hardware, including schematic capture, PCB design, and layout review.
Collaborate closely with firmware engineers to design, validate, and bring up devices, troubleshoot system-level issues, and support reliable product performance.
Contribute across the full product lifecycle, from ideation and prototypes to productization, manufacturing readiness, release, and ongoing sustainment.
Partner with production, test, quality, and manufacturing teams to diagnose issues, support new product introduction, and drive lasting corrective actions.
Work hands-on in the lab with instrumentation, test setups, calibration methods, and troubleshooting tools to improve consistency, yield, and throughput.
Support products designed for demanding field environments, including outdoor exposure, temperature variation, compliance needs, and customer-site performance.
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related STEM field, such as hardware engineering, computer engineering, physics, or computer science, with strong applied electrical engineering experience.
5+ years of hands-on electrical engineering or product hardware experience.
Experience taking hardware from prototype through validation and into production or field support.

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