ASSISTANT MANAGER-R&D - MANAGER-R&D - Embedded Control Systems - Ann Arbor, Michigan at Southwest Research Institute

Who We Are:

The Control Systems Department supports a wide variety of Sustainable Energy, Mobility, Powertrain, Aerospace and Defense projects across SwRI. We develop practical solutions by combining off-the-shelf and custom electronics, embedded systems and algorithms. System-level thinking is essential to support design and troubleshooting. Ideal candidates are insatiably curious to understand how things work, and how we can manipulate them. They are exceptionally high aptitude individuals who collaborate well with others.

Objectives of this Role:

• Lead a high-performance team to develop, implement and refine embedded control solutions across a variety of sustainable energy and mobility technologies.
• "Connect the dots" by identifying opportunities to apply control system techniques in novel ways.
• Leverage your hands-on experience troubleshooting "noisy" test environments to support your team delivering novel embedded control and data acquisition solutions.
• Coach your team to develop technical, project management and business development skills.
• Develop and grow your engineering team's careers by exploring their strengths and optimizing their contributions.
• Make a difference for the world by enabling energy saving and emission reducing technologies.

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:

• Guide and support project managers and engineers to ensure projects are completed on-time and on-budget.
• Provide technical guidance when helpful.
• Work with your team to develop new skills.
• Proactively develop business by responding to RFQs and by providing unsolicited concept papers.
• Stay up to date on industry and regulatory changes and adjust your strategy accordingly.
• Execute and help optimize business processes by bringing best practice based on your experience.
• Leverage your embedded system technical experience to help develop novel solutions that are not commercially available based on microcontroller, DSP, FPGA, instrumentation and electronics.

Requirements:

• Requires a Bachelors, Masters or a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics or related engineering or scientific degree.
• Must have strong fundamental and experience-based understanding of electronics, circuits, register-level configuration of microcontrollers/DSPs and HDL for FPGAs.
• Must have a solid understanding of electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic systems – the type of systems that we control in sustainable energy and mobility applications.
• 5-10 years: Experience developing, applying, and troubleshooting embedded controls systems (microcontroller, DSP, FPGA) to control or monitor real hardware.
• 5-10 years: Demonstrated proficiency in embedded system software application development.
• Must have a strong passion in those areas demonstrated by professional or personal projects.
• 5-10 years: Experience leading technical teams.
• A valid/clear driver's license is required.