ASSISTANT MANAGER-R&D - MANAGER-R&D - Embedded Control Systems - Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor, Texas

Employer: SWRI
Industry: 
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
  • Lead a high-performance team to develop, implement and refine embedded control solutions across a variety of sustainable energy and mobility technologies.
  • "Connect the dots" by identifying opportunities to apply control system techniques in novel ways.
  • Leverage your hands-on experience troubleshooting "noisy" test environments to support your team delivering novel embedded control and data acquisition solutions.
  • Coach your team to develop technical, project management and business development skills.
  • Develop and grow your engineering team's careers by exploring their strengths and optimizing their contributions.
  • Make a difference for the world by enabling energy saving and emission reducing technologies.

  • Guide and support project managers and engineers to ensure projects are completed on-time and on-budget.
  • Provide technical guidance when helpful.
  • Work with your team to develop new skills.
  • Proactively develop business by responding to RFQs and by providing unsolicited concept papers.
  • Stay up to date on industry and regulatory changes and adjust your strategy accordingly.
  • Execute and help optimize business processes by bringing best practice based on your experience.
  • Leverage your embedded system technical experience to help develop novel solutions that are not commercially available based on microcontroller, DSP, FPGA, instrumentation and electronics.

  • Requires a Bachelors, Masters or a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics or related engineering or scientific degree.
  • Must have strong fundamental and experience-based understanding of electronics, circuits, register-level configuration of microcontrollers/DSPs and HDL for FPGAs.
  • Must have a solid understanding of electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic systems - the type of systems that we control in sustainable energy and mobility applications.
  • 5-10 years: Experience developing, applying, and troubleshooting embedded controls systems (microcontroller, DSP, FPGA) to control or monitor real hardware.
  • 5-10 years: Demonstrated proficiency in embedded system software application development.
  • Must have a strong passion in those areas demonstrated by professional or personal projects.
  • 5-10 years: Experience leading technical teams.
  • A valid/clear driver's license is required.
Created: 2024-04-20
Reference: 03-01540
Country: United States
State: Texas
City: Ann Arbor