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Systems Control Engineer IV (Electronics)
Expert Technical Solutions is seeking a skilled Systems Control Engineer IV for one of our premier, industry leading clients in Montgomery, AL 36109. This person will be responsible for supporting our client’s control development in heat pump, electric, and/or gas water heater product lines through the Advanced Technology Integration organization. This role also plays a critical part in supporting our client’s R&D and manufacturing partners.
This role will require up to 10% travel to engage with suppliers and manufacturing sites.
This is a 6 month Contract to Hire (Hybrid – 3 days onsite in Montgomery) opportunity offering excellent pay, benefits, and growth potential.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- System Architecture and Design: Support the design of an electronic controller application, ensuring robust, common solutions across Water Heater and Air Conditioning products with the support of our Hardware, Software and R&D organizations.
- Work Product Reviews: Overseeing system work product reviews and ensuring the closure of action items before the release of design documentation and work products.
- Collaborative Engagement: Actively engaging with software, hardware, test, and product development teams throughout the product life cycle, ensuring seamless integration of system engineering work products.
- Requirements Definition: Defining, documenting, and updating controller system requirements and verification plans in collaboration with various teams. System Architecture: Defining and documenting controller system architecture, including key functional blocks, inputs, outputs, and interfaces.
- Verification Excellence: Creating and maintaining a controller traceability matrix, mapping controller requirements to associated verification activities and results, and actively participating in verification activities.
- Product Design Support: Participating in product design reviews to guarantee that control systems meet hardware and software feature requirements.
- Manufacturing Support: Assisting manufacturing engineering and suppliers by contributing to the development of product manufacturing test procedures and control documentation.
- Participate in developing system engineering processes and quality criteria.
- Customer Support/Service Collaboration: Collaborating closely with the customer service team to provide support for product training and ensuring customer satisfaction.
- This role may require the design and development of a Control level test bench, general support of laboratory testing and interaction with our Manufacturing, Service and Support teams in the development of your product.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Systems, Electrical, Computer, or Mechanical discipline)
- 7 years of experience (10 preferred) in the development of products with embedded microprocessor-based controls
- An innovative solution-first spirit with the ability to think creatively and drive forward-looking solutions.
- Applied Knowledge: Experience with electronic controls development which include electronics design and/or embedded software development is required.
- Engineering Expertise: Proficiency in System Requirements Documentation, Requirements Allocation, Requirements Traceability, and Test Case development and execution in Jama or similar Requirements Management Tool.
- Familiarity with Functional Safety standards (e.g., IEC 61508, ISO26262) or Agency Certification Requirements (e.g., UL 60730, UL 174, etc.).
- Quality Assurance: Experience with product and component level FMEAs and electronics failure analysis.
- Experience with Product Lifecycle Management, demonstrating a track record of managing version controlled systems development over the entire product lifecycle.
- Technical Competence: Ability to read, understand, and implement technical procedures and government regulations, as well as interpret a variety of schematic, electrical, and mechanical diagrams.
- Technical Proficiency: Proficient computer skills and in-depth knowledge of relevant software such as the MS Office Suite, Jama (or similar requirements tracking tools), and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A Master's degree in Engineering or related field.
- Industry-Specific Experience: Experience in HVAC or Water Heating applications is strongly preferred.
- 3 years of successful embedded system engineering project management.
- Knowledge of one or more of: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular communication, Ethernet, IoT
- Electronics Design and/or Manufacturing Experience
- Embedded Firmware or Software Experience
- Test Development: Familiarity with Test Development for Electronic Products.
- Six Sigma Certification: Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification.
- Quality and Reliability: Experience in Quality and Reliability aspects of product development.
- Automated Test Development Experience
- Project Management: Project management experience is a plus.
