What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Development Engineer position at TA Instruments?
| Req. # | 11832 |
| Company Name | TA |
| Category | Research and Development |
| Location | US-MN-Eden Prairie |
| Type | Regular Full-Time |
This position requires strong experience in product design, DOE & RCA skills, data analysis and project management, and responsibility to share knowledge as a mentor to junior engineers. As a Principal Development Engineer, you will be a key contributor to Marketing, Project Management, and Manufacturing groups as novel products progress through our phase gate development process to commercialization.
This position offers an excellent opportunity to grow both professionally and to work collaboratively with project team members from research groups, manufacturing, materials science and marketing to enhance TA Instruments' position in a highly dynamic market.
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Required Technical skills:
• Linear systems and adaptive control development experience
• Model-based design and code generation using MATLAB (StateFlow, Simulink RealTime)
• C or C coding skills
• Familiarity with Visual Studio
• CAD/PLM system experience, preferably Solidworks, Altium, and PDM
• Has been involved with prototype generation
• Excellent organization and communication skills
• Willingness to work on fast paced, challenging engineering projects
• Familiarity with real time operating systems
Desired Skills:
• Understanding of signal processing and electrical measurements
• Experience establishing requirements
• Highly independent
Education:
- Master’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering preferred
Experience:
- 12-15 years of experience in products design and development.
- Experience in the design, development and transfer of new products into a manufacturing environment
Skills:
- Desire and demonstrated ability to successfully lead complex projects
- Desire and demonstrated mentoring skills with junior engineers/coop students
- Familiarity with Systems Engineering, Design Thinking Concepts
- Proven track record of problem solving and learning agility
- Excellent documentation and communication skills
- Ability to plan and organize work load and multiple projects to achieve desired goals
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
- Design of integrated components consisting of mechanical design in combination with any of the following: electronics, software, communication, electrical, RFID, sensors, system recognition capabilities (preferred).
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Waters Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
It is the policy of TA Instruments to recruit, hire, and retain the best-qualified workforce while meeting the Company’s commitment to affirmative action and equal employment opportunity. TA Instruments does not discriminate against any qualified candidate for employment because of race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, religious creed, age (40 or older), disability (reasonably accommodated by TA Instruments), medical condition, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, pregnancy, genetic information or any other factor prohibited by law.