Principal Electrical Engineer

Location: Brookfield, WI

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Job Description:

INNOVATE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES! At Milwaukee Tool we firmly believe that our People and our Culture are the secrets to our success – so we give you unlimited access to everything you need to create disruptive new technologies and solutions on our electrical engineering teams. Our Engineering Team is responsible for giving life to the batteries, motors, and electronics that power solutions changing the lives of our users. Every developmental phase of these critical components happens in-house under the watch of this team. We continue to invest in electrical engineering resources to design and develop leadership in electronic capabilities; something unique within the industry. And we’re pushing the limits in firmware engineering, power electronics, embedded systems, machine learning, and the use of artificial intelligence.

Behind our doors you’ll be empowered every day to own it, drive it, and do what it takes to design and develop the biggest breakthroughs in the industry. Meanwhile, you’ll have the support and resources of the fastest-growing brand in the construction industry to make it happen.

Year after year, our team continues to make significant breakthroughs in the industry. We’re just getting started. To learn more about our story click HERE.

The Senior Principal Electrical Engineer will lead engineers in the design and implementation of testing of embedded systems and power electronics and identify engineering trends to drive strategies and Milwaukee Tool’s technical direction. You will work through the product development process in a team environment interacting with cross-functional stakeholders such as hardware, firmware, product development, and reliability engineers.

You’ll also be DISRUPTIVE through these duties and responsibilities:

• Motivate a world class team of cross functional engineers and project managers in engineering best practices to deliver new-to-world solutions.
• Mentor the team to increase project capacity while maintaining exemplary performance.
• Organize and align across product team and commercial managers to develop a robust product strategy and development roadmap.
• Effectively communicate and motivate up, down and across the organization to a diverse range of technical and non-technical team members.
• Drive urgency in project schedules and accountability for establishing and achieving key project metrics that meet the organization’s needs.
• Champion and drive new processes and procedures to meet the needs of a changing business.
• Establish and maintain a strong awareness and database of competitive offerings, product strategies, and business climate to shape a best-in-class roadmap.
• Provide strong technical leadership related to embedded design and best practices to the organization.
• Define and drive technical roadmaps identifying critical electronic components and creating robust design architectures.
• Lead the development of test plans/procedures and test cases for new platform embedded systems development.
• Effectively communicate up, down and across the organization to a diverse range of technical and non-technical team members.
• Own technical project schedules and work break down structure.
• Establish and maintain a strong awareness and database of competitive offerings, product strategies, and business climate to shape a best-in-class roadmap.

What TOOLS you’ll bring with you:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of highly successful embedded systems experience.
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience.
• Understanding of digital circuits and the interaction between firmware and electronics. Ability to realize component level design.
• Practical knowledge in analog/digital system tradeoffs and design, especially related to signal integrity, noise analysis, and margin considerations.
• Familiarity with using schematic capture, PCB layout software, SPICE, and knowledge of industry best practices.
• Familiarity in C programming and related development tools and processes, especially relating to microcontroller peripherals.
• Strong leadership experience.
• Self-motivated, organized, efficient, process oriented with a strong work ethic.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, exercises independent judgement and works well under pressure in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to travel 10% of the time (domestic and international).

Other TOOLS we prefer you to have:

• Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and MBA.

We provide these great perks and benefits:

• Robust health, dental and vision insurance plans.
• Generous 401 (K) savings plan.
• Education assistance.
• On-site wellness, fitness center, food, and coffee service.
• And many more, check out our benefits site HERE.

Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.