Job Description
Job DescriptionResponsibilities:
- Develop, track, and be responsible for creating system-level engineering specifications from market/business requirements
- Lead a team, consisting of direct and indirect reports
- Develop complex system/product development plans for new automated systems
- Develop interface specifications between system components
- Create system-level Theory of Operations documents touching on mechanical, electrical, controls, and software
- Develop system level safety architecture with lead members of Controls and Electrical Engineering teams
- Work closely with design engineers during all phases of product development to ensure that the mechanical, electrical, controls, and software systems will operate properly together as a single, complex system
- Establish system reliability/availability/maintainability metrics
- Establish standards for development of complex systems and how we will document system interfaces, communication protocols
- Ensure that products are designed with future needs in mind (e.g., processor selection, motor sizing, board expandability, etc.)
- Conduct system-level design reviews, DFMEA, risk assessments
- Serve as subject matter expert on how everything works together
- Participate in hardware and software design reviews and provide valuable insights
- Identify system needs/gaps before these create problems; anticipate areas of difficulty that require more attention
- Lead regulatory and safety compliance efforts
Experience:
- BS in Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical)
- 15+ years working in mechanical design involving electrical and mechanical assemblies and mechanisms, controls systems, and automation/robotics
- Onshape 3D CAD experience strongly preferred; other 3D CAD experience may be considered
- Should have new product development experience / conceptual design experience
- Ability to get into design details with the rest of the design team, having a deep understanding of mechanical and electrical (controls) engineering
- Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose problems with automated systems
- Experience leading teams, delegating tasks, creating team schedules, and setting priorities
- Significant knowledge of mechanical design, drawing standards, mechanical tolerances and stack-ups, fabrication techniques
- Experience with optical, proximity, IR, LIDAR, ultrasonic, RFID and other sensing technologies typically used in robotics
- Understanding of and experience with various safety and regulatory compliance requirements (CE, UL, robot, 13849, 62061, etc.)
- Prefer previous hands-on experience building prototypes/assemblies/etc.
- Experience with software development, SQA, release practices; coding experience not needed but a major plus
- Experience with large-scale industrial automation system implementation
Contract position$50-80/hr based on experienceBenefits available including health/dental/life insurance, 401k, PTO