Principal Electronics Engineer - Motor Control in Brookfield, Wisconsin

The Principal 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)
• 7+ years of experience in embedded design motor control design
• Experience with model-based control development utilizing hardware in-the-loop systems such as dSPACE
• 2+ years of leadership experience
• 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 e
• Ability to travel up to 10% (domestic and international)
• High interest in tools of the trade