Open the Door to Your Future with Clopay Corporation & CornellCookson
At Clopay Corporation, we are more than just North America’s largest residential and commercial garage door manufacturer - we are a powerhouse of innovation, safety, and design. Through our premier brands, we lead the industry in providing groundbreaking high-performance closure solutions for both the places people call home and the spaces where the world does business.
Headquartered in Mason, Ohio, and operating state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Troy, Ohio, Russia, Ohio, Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, and Goodyear, Arizona, we are a proud American-owned company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation. Our reach extends across 55+ distribution centers and thousands of retail locations in the U.S. and Canada ensuring that we deliver the right door for every opening – from homes to businesses and beyond. By joining our team, you become part of a legacy that blends the residential elegance of Clopay, known as "America’s Favorite Garage Doors," with the industrial strength and 180-year heritage of our rolling brands, Cornell and Cookson. Together, we secure everything from family garages to the world's most iconic stadiums and skyscrapers.
We currently have an opening for an Electrical Engineer – Product Development (Full-Stack Hardware) in our Mason, Ohio location.
Summary:
This is a “full-stack” electrical engineering role for an engineer who wants to own a design from first sketch to the production line. You will define the requirements, design and prototype the electronics, write the embedded code to bring it to life, document it thoroughly, work with suppliers and contract manufacturers to build it, test the production units, and deliver a clean hand-off to manufacturing.
The products you will work on - garage door operators, controls, sensors, accessories, and connected devices across the Clopay and CornellCookson residential and commercial product lines - sit where electronics, motors, and mechanics meet. A broad electrical engineering foundation with electromechanical and embedded experience is essential. If you would rather see a product all the way through than hand it off halfway, we want to talk to you.
Responsibilities include:
- Requirements & Architecture: Translate product and customer requirements into electrical specifications and system architectures for garage door operators, controls, sensors, and accessories - balancing performance, safety, cost, and manufacturability.
- Circuit Design: Design analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power circuits, including AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies, motor drives, sensor interfaces, microcontroller subsystems, battery backup, and wireless/RF sections.
- Electromechanical Integration: Partner with mechanical engineers on motors, gearing, limit and position sensing, encoders, relays, solenoids, wire harnesses, connectors, and enclosures so the electronics and mechanics work as one reliable system.
- Embedded Development: Select microcontrollers and write, debug, and maintain embedded C/C++ for board bring-up, motor control, sensing, safety logic, and communication interfaces; collaborate with firmware and software teams on production code.
- Schematic & PCB Design: Capture schematics and lay out printed circuit boards (Altium, KiCad, or similar), applying DFM/DFT, thermal, EMC, and creepage/clearance best practices.
- Prototyping: Build, bring up, and debug prototypes - from development boards and breadboards through quick-turn PCBs and pre-production builds - including hands-on through-hole and surface-mount soldering and rework.
- Design Analysis: Perform worst-case, tolerance, derating, thermal, and power-budget analyses; lead and participate in design reviews and DFMEAs.
- Documentation: Create and maintain a complete design record - requirements, schematics, bills of material, fabrication and assembly packages, theory of operation, firmware release notes, test procedures, and test reports - released and controlled through ECN/ECO and PLM processes.
- Supplier & Vendor Management: Select components and work with distributors, component suppliers, PCB fabricators, and contract manufacturers (domestic and overseas) to quote, source, and build designs; manage second sources, lifecycle, and obsolescence.
- Manufacturing Builds: Support EVT, DVT, PVT, and pilot builds at contract manufacturers; review first articles, resolve build and yield issues, and drive corrective actions with vendors.
- Test & Validation: Develop and execute design verification plans on prototype and production units, including functional, environmental (temperature, humidity, vibration), life-cycle, ESD/surge/transient, and reliability testing.
- Compliance & Certification: Guide products through safety and regulatory certification - UL 325, UL 991, FCC Part 15 / ISED, and related standards - including EMC pre-compliance testing and coordination with third-party labs.
- Production Test: Define end-of-line and in-circuit test requirements and design or specify the test fixtures and programming stations used on the manufacturing line.
- Hand-off to Production: Deliver a clean, complete release to manufacturing - released documentation, approved vendors, validated test processes, and trained production and service teams - then provide sustaining support for field issues, cost reductions, and component changes.
- Cross-Functional Communication: Work closely with Product Management, Mechanical and Software Engineering, Quality, Sourcing, Manufacturing, and Customer Service; communicate status, risks, and recommendations to the team and leadership.
- Completes other engineering projects as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
- Minimum 5 years of electrical engineering experience in product development, including at least one product taken from concept through production release.
- Broad, hands-on knowledge of electronics design - analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power electronics.
- Embedded experience with microcontrollers (e.g., ARM Cortex-M) and C/C++, including board bring-up and debugging with JTAG/SWD.
- Electromechanical experience with motors (DC, BLDC, and/or AC induction), motor drivers, relays, sensors, and wiring harnesses.
- Proficiency in schematic capture and PCB layout.
- Experience working directly with PCB fabricators, contract manufacturers, and component suppliers to bring a design into production.
- Proficiency with standard lab equipment (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, DMM, power supplies, electronic loads, function generator) and sound measurement techniques.
- Working knowledge of common interfaces and protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, RS-485, CAN, and PWM.
- Disciplined documentation habits and familiarity with BOM management, engineering change control, and PLM systems.
- Self-directed and organized - comfortable owning a design end to end and managing multiple projects at once.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Willingness to travel up to approximately 15% to suppliers, contract manufacturers, test labs, and Clopay manufacturing facilities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in garage door / door operator, access control, building products, appliance, HVAC, or automotive electronics.
- Experience with wireless technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, Zigbee/Thread/Matter, or sub-GHz RF (including rolling-code transmitters and receivers).
- Experience with safety-related design, such as entrapment protection, photoelectric and edge sensors, and UL 60730 Class B software.
- Experience with battery backup systems and battery charging circuits.
- Experience transferring products to overseas contract manufacturers.
- Familiarity with DFMEA, DOE, and statistical analysis; Six Sigma training a plus.
- Scripting for test automation and data analysis (Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW, or similar) and version control with Git.
- Familiarity with mechanical CAD (SolidWorks, Creo, or similar) and 3D printing for enclosures and fixtures.
- Master of Science degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
Why Choose a Career with Us?
We don't just manufacture doors; we engineer the "front door" of the American dream and the security of global commerce. At Clopay, we believe our strength lies in our people. From our design engineers to our manufacturing associates and delivery drivers, every member of the team plays a vital role in our success.
Our team members thrive because we prioritize:
- Unrivaled Scale: Work for a market leader with a massive manufacturing footprint and a reputation for excellence that spans nearly two centuries.
- A Culture of "What’s Next": We invest heavily in automation, sustainable materials, and smart-home integration to stay ahead of the curve.
- Commitment to People:As a Griffon Corporation company, we provide the stability of a large organization with the tight-knit, collaborative feel of a specialized craft team.
- A Legacy of Expertise: Join our "Pioneer Club" - a group of over 440 employees who have been with us for 20 years or more. We offer the stability of a market leader and a place where you can truly grow a lifelong career.
- Commitment to Innovation: We aren’t just keeping up with industry trends; we’re setting them. Whether it’s our exclusive WINDCODE® technology or our award-winning designs, we provide the tools for you to do your best work.
- Community Focused:Our success is linked to the well-being of our neighbors and communities. Through our partnership with Habitat for Humanity, Clopay employees help provide homes and security to families in the communities where we live and work.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Disclaimer: "This posting does not constitute a contract or guarantee of employment or compensation. Compensation ranges and employment terms are subject to change at the company’s discretion based on skills, experience, qualifications, internal equity, market conditions and geographical location."
"The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work to be performed. The above statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of the incumbent in this position Management retains the discretion to add to or change the duties of the position at any time.”
