at Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
- Working independently, design, prototype, test, and troubleshoot embedded electronics including hardware and firmware for low to mid-level complexity projects.
- Serve as part of our Electrical Engineering team, giving life to the batteries, motors, and electronics that power our disruptive new technologies and solutions.
- Conduct experiments, perform simulations, and draw concise, logical conclusions by analyzing data.
- Work with component suppliers and manufacturers for proper component selection on existing projects and providing input into future product needs.
- Perform research and test innovating technologies.
- Identify new innovations and strategic opportunities while considering financial impact and competitiveness.
- Develop plans to evaluate and assess the emerging technology market space to fit and complement Milwaukee Tool product initiatives and development.
- Drive communication with marketing, product teams, and platform engineering to capture the voice of the customer and tailor solutions to user needs.
- Grow the team to increase project capacity while maintaining exemplary performance.
- Effectively communicate and motivate up, down and across the organization to a diverse range of technical and non-technical team members.
- Build, manage, and motivate a world class team of embedded design engineers to deliver new-to-world solutions.
- Champion and drive new processes and procedures to meet the needs of a changing business.
- Mentor and coach the team in engineering best practices including task management, Gantt charts, root cause analysis, firmware design, circuit / PCB design, simulation, and PCBA manufacturing. Lead technology investigations, develop system requirements, define future architectures and reusability strategies.
- Quickly, effectively, and candidly frame-up and escalate business risks and opportunities to senior leadership.
