Phil Canete

ee @ sunday

San Francisco Bay Area

About

I am a graduate of Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Cruz with a multidisciplinary background of mechanical, electrical and programming experience. I'm experienced in fast-paced workplaces and time sensitive projects, and I strive to be organized, thorough, and communicate openly. Github: https://github.com/PhilipCanete

Experience

  • electrical engineer at Sunday
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Ultima Genomics ()
    • Senior Electrical Design Engineer
      Feb 2025 - May 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Electrical engineer designing to IEC61010 and NFPA79 in ISO13485 environment. Highlighted Projects: Team Lead for N+1 architecture: - Led EE design in cross-functional architecture meetings - Owned design for whole tool block diagram with >80 cables selecting every wire, connector, and system interface - Owned overall tool power budget, top level AC-DC, and DC distribution Ethercat motor driver - Developed multiboard assembly for boardmount nano-precision ethercat servo drives - Involved ethercat, 50 MHz mixed signals, multiple bus voltage levels, and high current motor drivers - Simulated current density to predict worst-case heating with Altium PDN Detector Subsystem Electronics - System owner for electronics architecture for sequencer module (>10 custom PCBs, >3 with MCUs) - Originated block diagrams, schematics, board layout, and >40 cable drawings - Core electronics used used STM32 and Microchip SAMD MCUs interfacing with ECAT PHYs - Integrated board mount environmental sensors, gigabit network switches, and FPGAs - Developed current/voltage/fault sensing for high visibility remote diagnostics - Supported multiple cameras, lasers, linear and rotary PMSM/BLDC motors, stepper motors, and custom autofocus system Custom Flex Heater Design - Conceived and led development of electrical software to design custom flexible polymide PCB heaters - Reduced custom PCB heater cost by 11x and lead time by 6x, resulting in >$100k cost savings during prototype - High CM integration to perform additional nonstandard post-fab services PLC Powerbox - Designed, documented and built UL508 compliant powerbox for motor testing at CM Flex Sensor - Designed flex multi-fold PCB for heavily space constrained application with multiple stiffeners Altium Librarian: - Developed company Altium infrastructure with templates for project, symbols, footprints, components, draftsman, and outjob - Led project to document REACH/ROHS evidence for >1000 components within Altium365 library

    • Electrical Design Engineer 2
      Feb 2023 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Lam Research ()
    • Electrical Design Engineer 2
      Dec 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

      ● Created and managed system level cable interconnect diagrams for production process modules ● Originated redlines and reviewed blacklines for cable and wiring diagrams for both power and signal harnesses ● Led schematic capture and board layout for PCBAs for sensors, communication, control, and low voltage power distribution ● Designed and accelerated aging test fixture to qualify SSRs replacing failing mechanical relays to gain customer trust ● Sole engineer responsible for managing, releasing, and revising interlock firmware for production process module ● Documented and developed hardware and firmware for custom RS232 traffic routing switch built on Cypress PSOC microcontroller ● Designed safety PLC test fixture for testing new interlock firmware for the purpose of IEC61508 compliance ● Performed automated testing and characterization of circuits using digital oscilloscope and logic analyzer

    • Electrical Design Engineer 1
      Jul 2020 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • University of California, Santa Cruz ()
    • Administrative Chair of the Student Committee on Committees
      Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Oversaw and assisted the members of SCOC carry out their assigned duties, created forms and sheets for the tracking of students appointed to various campus committees

    • Elected Representative on the Student Committee on Committees
      Sep 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Sole representative of Cowell College tasked with facilitating the appointment and tracking of all student representatives to campus-wide committees, including academic senate and administrative committees.

  • Founding Board Member & Technical Project Manager at UCSC Engineers Without Borders
    May 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Co-authored grant application to successfully receive club starter funding • Co-authored rigorous charter application, only one of three charters to be approved in 2017 • Designed and developed GSM networked sensor node to transmit data from deployed solar energy system in Cameroon to stateside SQL server • Built Grafana dashboard to display visual analytics and metrics of system performance