Product Engineer

Product Engineer - Milwaukee Area

Company Summary: A leading player in machinery manufacturing, specializing in premium laundry solutions for global clients. Offers commercial-quality products for various sectors, including hotels, laundromats, and residential users. Renowned brands supported by a wide distribution network.

Overview:
As a Product Engineer, you will focus on writing, designing, and testing embedded firmware for electronic controls used in commercial laundry equipment. Our products serve a global market, including laundromats, hotels, hospitals, universities, apartment complexes, fire stations, and more. This position requires onsite presence in Ripon, WI on a hybrid basis.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership for firmware-related projects and manage large-scale outsourced firmware development projects.

• Become a subject matter expert in the microelectronic product portfolio.

• Establish firmware architecture requirements and write detailed microelectronic control design and test specifications.

• Validate functional test equipment produced by contract control manufacturers against specifications.

• Maintain model configuration information for the microelectronic product portfolio.

• Engage in cross-functional product development activities, including team meetings, feature definition sessions, pilot builds, and reviews of user manuals.

• Write engineering change notifications and detailed lab test orders for execution by lab technicians.

• Investigate firmware issues, conduct root cause analysis, and drive resolution.

• Perform firmware development and testing on simulators and products in a lab environment.

• Identify opportunities for quality and cost improvements.

• Provide production support as needed.

• Manage vendor access to licensed developer applications and development tools/equipment.

Qualifications:

• Education & Experience:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering preferred.

• 5 years of programming experience.

• Previous project management experience is highly desirable.

• Extensive firmware development experience with coding in C; experience with coding in lua and UI designer applications, e.g., Storyboard, is a plus.

Skills and Abilities:

• Proficient technical skills required.

• Demonstrated project leadership abilities.

• Strong communication skills for effective interaction with internal and external groups.

• Experience with test-driven firmware development is a plus.

• Strong debugging, problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Self-motivated and hands-on.

• Ability to work well in a team environment.