Electronics Engineer

Electronics Engineer – PCB Design & Embedded Firmware

Location: Avon, CT (on-site) Department: Engineering Reports to: Head of Engineering and Design

About K-Tech

K-Tech International, Inc. is an American manufacturer of elevator safety and emergency communication products, based in Connecticut and moving our headquarters from Torrington to Avon. Our product line includes ADA-compliant emergency phones, area-of-rescue systems, video and texting solutions (including the K-Tech Connect platform), cellular gateways, line loss monitoring, load weighing systems, and barricade products.

These products keep passengers safe in elevators, high-rises, and commercial buildings across North America.

We're a family-oriented, growing company, and our products meet demanding standards including ASME A17.1, ADA, NFPA, and UL. We're expanding our in-house work in embedded systems, cloud platforms, and full-stack development to build smarter, more connected safety products. In our small, collaborative team, your work will directly shape our products and their reliability.

The Role

We're looking for a mid-career Electronics Engineer to join our small team of electrical, embedded, and software engineers. This is a hands-on role: you'll design PCBs, write embedded firmware, and support products from concept through manufacturing. Your work will power our elevator phones, video and texting systems, and related hardware, both as stand-alone products and in Industrial IoT (IIoT) connected deployments.

This role suits an engineer who enjoys working across hardware, firmware, and manufacturing, and who likes solving practical problems in a safety-critical industry.

What You'll Do

• Design and change PCBs for new and existing products, from schematic capture and layout through simulation and validation
• Develop embedded firmware in C and C++ (and Assembly where needed) for microcontrollers and microprocessors, for both stand-alone and IIoT/cloud-connected products
• Make sure new designs integrate cleanly with our elevator phones, video, texting, load sensing, and other safety products
• Build prototypes and production runs using pick-and-place, laser cutting, CNC, and other in-house equipment
• Design hardware and firmware that meets ASME A17.1, UL, ADA, FCC, and cybersecurity requirements
• Apply secure design practices to build reliable products for demanding elevator environments
• Work closely with electrical, software, and materials engineers on integrated solutions
• Troubleshoot customer technical issues and support products in the field
• Use generative AI tools to speed up schematic design, firmware development, simulation, and testing

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical, Electronics, Computer, or Mechatronics/Robotics Engineering, Electronics Engineering Technology, or a related field
• At least three years designing and releasing commercial electronics, ideally sensors, telecommunications, audio, or industrial controls
• Experience with PCB design tools
• Experience programming in C/C++
• Experience on microcontroller platforms such as STM32, PIC, Arduino, or Raspberry Pi, etc.
• Knowledge of analog and digital electronics, power management, signal integrity, and communication interfaces (UART, I2C, Ethernet, cellular)
• Clear writing and comfort explaining a circuit to people who are not engineers

Helpful to bring

• Experience or training in mechanical engineering and metallurgy
• Assembly language programming
• Elevator, life-safety, or ADA communication products.
• Telephone-line interfaces, speakerphones, or two-way audio.
• Load cells, strain gauges, or rope-tension measurement.
• Experience in a small manufacturing company rather than a large aerospace staff.
• Customer support or field applications engineering experience
• Experience with sensors, video integration, or voice systems

What We Offer

• Full-time, on-site at 50 Tower Lane, Avon, CT 06002
• Monday–Friday, about 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Pay around $65,000-$85,000, depending on experience.
• Benefits: health, 401(k), PTO, paid company holidays
• Small-company setting: short decision path, direct ownership of designs, and products that ship under your name.

How to Apply

Send your resume, a brief cover letter, and any portfolio or project examples to or

K-Tech International, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Pay: $65,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person