Disher Design & Development is a full-service product development and engineering services firm in West Michigan. Our engineering team is highly technical and diversified, serving in a variety of markets including automotive, office furniture, alternative energy, and medical. Our capabilities span from napkin through launch, providing numerous opportunities for us to partner with clients in product and process development, as well as in Talent identification and attraction.
We are currently partnering with a West Michigan customer in their search for a Systems Engineer to join their team. This is a direct-hire position to join their team and not with Disher Design & Development.
Responsibilities & Qualifications:
- Research technologies new to the industry and the company, through web searches, seminars, classes, trade shows, and experimentation
- Some examples: SAE J1939 CAN, Wireless technology (Bluetooth, Zigbee), Non-contact Sensors, EMI/EMC, Robot vision system application, PCB prototyping techniques, etc.
- Apply potential technology to build products for the company
- Invent new product, and build proof-of-concept prototypes for demonstration
- Use technology on existing product to improve or fix issues
- Outline and realize plan to implement new technology
- Face of the company to customers and suppliers in technical aspect
- Product presentation at customer’s location/visit
- Technical representatives for discussion/field service
- Mentor and support fellow engineers in mechatronics engineering
- Annual internal company tech show
- Training in technical topics as necessary (e.g. in-field firmware reprogramming)
- Technical lead in current product improvement engineering efforts
- Technical reference to student projects
- Embedded system design from ground up
- Hardware selection (microcontrollers, resonators, sensors etc.)
- Software/firmware (C programming, communications protocols e.g. UART, I2C, SPI, CAN)
- Prototype building (schematic, PCB layout, SMT parts hand soldering, etc.)
- System installation on vehicle
- Conduct product testing, either perform personally or with aid of technician :
- Internal test lab (functional, temperature, acceleration/shock)
- External test lab (e.g. environmental test per ISO 16750)
- Engineering prototype field tests on customer’s site
- Building test equipment
- Engineering Analysis
- Secondary : Structural FEA, Tolerance analysis
- Primary : Field analysis (CFD, Magnetics)
- IP
- Invention disclosure forms (3 submitted so far)
- Patent review (for patentability of invention)
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field preferred.
- 7+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer.
- 7+ years of development experience with mechatronic products.
- Solid communication and facilitation skills to proactively bring various engineering disciplines together to ensure cross-functional alignment.
- Ability to help the customer understand and verbalize their true needs and to effectively communicate those customer needs within the organization.
- Mastery of Systems Engineering process knowledge (Incose or similar process).
- Mastery level functional safety knowledge of ISO-26262.
Please apply and attach resume at the following link:
http://disherdesign.catsone.com/careers
