Software Engineer

About the Role

The Lead Engineer, Software develops, debugs, tests, deploys and supports code to be deployed in systems/products/equipment for various applications. They write, debug, maintain, and test software in various common languages and for software at various levels in the hierarchy from firmware to application. Software creation follows an agreed development process (such as Agile, Scrum) and complies with the product life cycle development (phase/gate deliverables).

The Lead Engineer, Software works in cross functional teams with other designers, customers, manufacturing engineering and project leadership to ensure robust and high quality product development and to enhance designs with feedback from manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design and simulations.

Responsibilities

• Work as a team member who understands and interprets technical problems and provides technical support
• Solve assigned problems under guidance of more senior engineers
• Analyze, design and develop tests and test-automation suites
• Design and develop a processing platform using various configuration management technologies
• Apply and test software development methodology (may be done in an agile environment)
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms
• Collaborate cross-functionally with customers, users, project managers and other engineers including peer reviews to achieve elegant solutions
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement and work alongside other engineers to elevate technology and apply best practices
• Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations

Qualifications

Knowledge / Skills / Competencies:

• Project management: ability to manage a single line engineering project with a limited number of participants, create project/change plans, establish roles and communicate requirements
• Leadership: demonstrate individual leadership behaviors aligned to company imperatives
• Financial acumen / business planning: understanding of budgeting, cost accounting practices and awareness of work impact on financial results

The following competencies may also be required and performed with help or under supervision:

• Coaching and mentoring; communication, negotiation and presentation
• Creative problem solving; customer interaction and stakeholder management
• Quality and Lean; D/PFMEA; 8D / corrective action
• Equipment safety; design of experiments (DOE)

Typical experience: 3 to 8 years

Typical education: Bachelor degree or equivalent combination of education and experience (requirements may vary by geography).

Skills

• Experience across software levels from firmware to application and adherence to software development lifecycle
• Test automation and development of test suites
• Configuration management technologies and processing platform development
• Agile / Scrum development environment and peer-review practices
• Ongoing maintenance, support and cross-functional collaboration