• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Flex Spending Account
• 401k with company match
• Employee stock option
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Life Insurance

Position Summary:   

The Solutions Engineer is a hands-on development engineering position within the client's business model and the Ideas to Innovation (I2I) development process requiring vast engineering knowledge and rapid prototyping ability.  The Solutions Engineer works closely with Product Management, Field Sales and the Customer to define, develop and deliver a testing solution.  The Solutions Engineer is a highly skilled systems integrator able to apply the necessary technology blocks to form a product solution to meet Customer needs in a timely manner.  The technology blocks may be from a variety of existing products or they may be under development by other engineers of which the Solutions Engineer integrates into a solution to fit the application.  The Solutions Engineer develops and implements scalable technology architectures. The Solutions Engineer devises possible solutions to predicted problems, evaluating other options including risk identification, working as part of a team, which may be established purely for a particular project. The Solutions Engineer analyzes customer needs and develops an overall concept and designs with an eye to performance, architecture, safety, security and scalability.  From time to time, as needed, engineers and technicians from the R&D Team may be assigned to work with the Solutions Engineer on a given project.  And, from time to time the Solutions Engineer may be assigned to work with the R&D Team on a given project.

Responsibilities:  

• Communicate effectively to all relevant team members.   
• Conduct Technical feasibility requirements analysis on relevant technologies for proposed use in future developments.
• Create development plans, strategies and proposed architectures for solutions that are scalable.
• Support internal research and development teams to develop firmware, software and hardware frameworks.
• Conduct peer design reviews for quality, performance, standard adherence and requirement satisfaction.
• Articulate the benefits and decisions in proposing and selecting architectures or technical design solutions.
• Contribute to directing the design and development of high reliability analog, digital and software systems.
• The Solutions Engineer position emphasizes ‘systems thinking’ throughout the product life cycle and assures program plans are developed and coordinated across the product line.
• Identifies trendsetter innovative ideas by researching industry and related events, publications, and announcements; tracking individual contributors and their accomplishments.
• From time to time support technical proposal development for new business opportunities.
• Support technology development.
• Support recruitment of engineering personnel.
• Maintain ongoing quality improvement efforts.
• Provide leadership and technical support to project team members.
• Plan and design engineering programs and processes.
• Work with multi-departmental teams to accomplish project goals
• Promotes client capabilities and interests to customers and potential customers.
• Protects client's intellectual property by keeping information confidential.
• Attend assigned industry meetings as needed to represent the company’s interests.
• Other items as needed.

Education:  BS Electrical Engineering required (BS Physics considered).  Additional BS in Mechanical Engineering or Computer Science is a plus and MS EE is a plus.

Experience:  Minimum of 10 years total experience in development engineering with experience as a project leader desired.  Experience with analog, digital, firmware and software engineering is desired.   

Skilled at:  

Oral and written communications, working collaboratively, effectively interfacing with all levels of the organizational chart. Leadership abilities to provide guidance to Project Engineers, Development Engineers, Product Managers and Customer Support team.

Position Location: 

This person may be based at the Pearl, MS or Lafayette, IN facility with Pearl being the first choice.  Whichever facility is the primary location, periodic travel will be expected to the other facility.