What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Staff Engineer-Electronics position at kohler?
Location: Onsite 4 days – Kohler, WI
Opportunity
Are you an engineer looking to accelerate your career with a world class, privately held company?
Do you thrive on innovation and enjoy working on breakthrough products and transformative technologies?
We are seeking a visionary engineer with a passion for developing category defining solutions. As a Sr Staff Engineer, Transformative Innovation, you will play a critical role in identifying, evaluating, and developing next generation products and technologies that will reshape the Kitchen & Bath industry. This is your opportunity to influence the future—and build what comes next.
Specific Responsibilities
- Support Transformative Innovation projects from concept through completion, engineering highly innovative products.
- Collaborate closely with Marketing, Industrial Design, and cross functional teams to develop new technologies and solutions that meet customer needs.
- Own electronics and firmware development for first to market consumer products, including requirements definition, design, implementation, integration, compliance testing, and deployment—primarily focused on control systems, sensing, and user interfaces.
- Assess technical feasibility of new products and technologies; create requirements, risk mitigation strategies, test plans, schedule estimates, and cost analyses.
- Partner with Kohler legal teams to identify, evaluate, generate, and protect intellectual property.
- Conduct competitive benchmarking and stay informed on industry and technology trends.
- Communicate technical recommendations clearly and concisely, providing well reasoned guidance to stakeholders.