Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems

. Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation, a family owned business for over 75 years, takes pride in powering progress in health, security and quality of life. We are key partners with the world’s leading medical devices, semiconductor, scientific analytics and industrial systems manufacturers. When they want to push the limits of what’s possible with high voltage applications, they turn to us to make it happen.

While Spellman is not a household name, our products are used to make and often power many of the most advanced technologies that make modern life possible. With design and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe and Asia, we have become the preferred provider of high voltage power solutions for OEMs pushing the boundaries of technology around the world by designing and producing the products they need to power progress.
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* About The Role:

** As a part of our continuous focus on offering high performance and cutting-edge products and solutions to our markets, the field of advanced power conversion, power management and controls, embedded systems is of strategic and critical importance. In this context, Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp. is seeking a highly talented, motivated, creative, and experienced engineering leader in the field of embedded systems in the field of Power Electronics, Power Management and Digital Controls, to include development, testing and validation.

For this highly skilled and hands-on technical expert role, our expectations are:
* to focus on the design, development, implementation, testing, and documentation of complex firmware and software to be used in high voltage power supplies in all our markets and applications of interest,
* interfacing and supporting our global engineering community as needed.

Further, in this role, soft skills, coaching and mentoring, as well as a deep understanding of RTOS and bare metal firmware are all key requirements to be successful in this role.

What You Will Do:

Technical:
* Project Planning for firmware/software development needs
* Hands-on support/leadership of firmware and software design for sophisticated high voltage power supplies (HVPS). Languages used (C, Verilog, VHDL, Assembly, C, C#, VB6, Java, WPF, and Linux) and firmware development based on RTOS.
* Interface with peers in the Engineering team to implement features desired as described in product and application requirements.
* Lead/Support the preparation of all technical documentation, such as circuit diagrams, test reports, manuals, technical reports, release documentation etc.
* Support the review and interpretation of internal/external customer requirements
* Support the improvement of the FW and SW release process, to include the use of revision control systems such as Tortoise SVN
* Continuous Research of latest concepts as it pertains to Embedded Systems:
Development including DSP’s, MCU’s, FPGA’s, CPLD’s, SOM.Leadership and managerial:
* Provide local and day-to-day leadership expertise and coaching to younger Embedded Systems & Controls engineers
* Interface with the company’s global engineering, sales & Marketing, operations, and quality teams among others, in support of common projects and overall company strategy
* Support the development of Embedded Systems Engineering strategies for current and future product and technology development projects based on the company’s overall objectives
* Drive and support an engineering culture of high performance and provide the corresponding role model through leadership by example
* Take a hands-on approach to leading Embedded Systems projects with a focus on comprehensive requirements analysis, definition of the appropriate technical approach and solution, project planning and management, and risk assessment and mitigation.
* Drive an efficient, lean and risk management-based execution of product design and development projects ranging from new product and technology development to existing product sustainability (to include performance, quality, reliability, and cost improvements)
* Participate in and contribute to strategic discussions regarding products, markets, and technology/product road-mapping.
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