Principal Systems Engineer - FPGA required

Marlborough, MA

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Help evaluate new technologies and leverage those into product architectures resulting in the implementation of requested product functions.
Innovate new product features based on your ability to realize product from technical possibilities.
Provide technical leadership in the realm of system design.
Design, develop, test and document firmware components and applications.
Design, Develop and Test embedded real-time, multi-processor systems.
Work with engineering project teams to provide architectural technical leadership.
Lead technical requirements gathering, estimating, and planning efforts.
Leverage internal component reusability and open source solutions to improve time to market.
Develop products to promote the ease of implementing automated test suites (Nice-to-have).
Develop clear metrics for testing status and progress monitoring dashboards.
Mentorship of more junior engineers and on-going professional development activities.
As a member of the Engineering team, interface with mechanical, electrical, systems, and test engineers.
Participate in project team meetings.
Identify and implement process and development environment improvements.
Work with Development and project managers to assist in technical decision making.
Ensure cross product implementation consistency.
Work with other product teams on solutions.
Travel requirement: less than 5%.

DECISION-MAKING LATITUDE

This employee will be a member of design teams and, as a Principal engineer, will be responsible for guiding these teams in system designs.

QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering required.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

15+ years of work experience in firmware and software development.
5+ years of work experience in a technical leadership role.
Ability to quickly prototype new concepts and ideas.
Ability to provide creativity while solving complex problems without known solutions.
Familiarity and experience working with Matlab, Linux, and scripting languages.
Knowledge of PC based applications.
Knowledge of FPGA programming.
Knowledge of hardware design Familiar with message bus technologies and implementations.
Team communication and collaboration experience (Such as a wiki).
Ability to assess new technologies via comprehensive reviews.
Experience working with hardware teams to isolate failure causes.
Proven track record of proactively working with the development and QA stakeholders.
Strong technical capabilities of a developer combined with a passion for assuring product quality.
DSP FPGA/CPLD implementations.
Project management skills, including planning, estimation and requirements management.
Expert level skills in one or more scripting languages such as TCL, Python and Perl.
Experience with embedded and host applications developed in C, C++, C# and .NET

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE (Not Required):

FPGA or DSP based digital loop control.
Simulation with PSpice, LTSpice, MATLAB, PSIM and/or Simulink.
Complete product life-cycle experience.
IEC61010-1 compliance experience.
Experience working in an agile engineering environment.
Experience working with Atlassian Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket products.
Experience or the desire to learn about utility power systems.
Experience with Protocol development and messaging systems.
Knowledge of equipment such as protectors, relays, transformers and power cable.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Ability to express ideas clearly in written and oral communications.
Willingness and excited to assume increased responsibility.
Expert knowledge of scripting and programming languages including C/C++ and Perl/Python/PHP.
Development experience Linux, Windows.
Expert knowledge of embedded multiprocessor systems, software/hardware test and validation, bug life cycle management, software development methodologies (waterfall and agile).
Strong communication skills that interweave presentation skills with the problem- solving process.
Strong interpersonal skill set.
Strong computer skills including network load flow software.
Well-developed technical writing skills.