Senior Electrical Engineer - Motor Control in Brookfield, Wisconsin
Date Posted: 2/10/2021
Job Snapshot
Employee Type:
Full-time
Location:
Brookfield, Wisconsin
Job Type:
Engineering
Date Posted:
2/10/2021
Job Description
The Senior Electrical Engineer leads and manages a team of engineers focused on developing and delivering cutting edge motor control for power tools.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Strategic roadmap planning for motor control-based power tool features, resource allocation and scope management, project management, oversight of technical review / design decisions, including working in a team environment as a technical leader with embedded system / firmware engineers, product development engineers, and marketing
- Manage and motivate the team to deliver on highly technical projects
- Mentor and coach the team in engineering best practices including task management, Gannt charts, root cause analysis, and presentation skills
- Ensure the team is given the time and resources required to succeed by creating and managing robust project schedules and resource plans with converged project scope
- Assess the product roadmap and set control development strategy for achieving key new power tool features
- Effectively identify, converge, and communicate major technical & management issues to upper management in a clear, concise, and timely manner while driving appropriate actions
- Bring a strong technical understanding of sensor application design and best practices to the organization
- Help lead training & continuous improvement efforts of Milwaukee's electronic design processes and best practices
- Lead & grow the team to increase project capacity while maintaining exemplary performance
- Manage and delivery on individual projects
Education and Experience Requirements
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar field required(Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering preferred)
- 5+ years of experience in embedded design motor control design
- Experience with model-based control development utilizing hardware in-the-loop systems such as dSPACE
- Familiarity with inverter design and gate driver topologies; electric machine design; voltage and current sensing techniques and technology
- Experience and familiarity with C/C++
- Experience designing and developing real-time control systems
- Some familiarity with machine learning is a plus
- Highly motivated self-starter
- Ability to travel up to 10% (domestic and international)
- Heavy focus on tools of the trade