Sensor Development Engineer III - Speed and Position Sensing

Sensor Development Engineer III - Speed and Position Sensing

Janesville, WI, USA

Posted Friday, August 21, 2026 at 5:00 AM

Position Summary:

The Sensor Development Engineer is responsible for leading the development of speed and position sensing products from concept through production launch. Serves as the technical leader for assigned programs, translating customer requirements into robust sensing solutions through the integration of magnetic design, sensor electronics, materials, mechanical packaging, validation, and manufacturing processes. Collaborates with customers and cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, reliable, and cost-effective products that meet performance, quality, timing, and business objectives.

Position Requirements:

• Serve as the technical leader and primary engineering owner for assigned speed and position sensing product development programs from concept through production launch, ensuring successful execution of technical, quality, timing, cost, and customer requirements.
• Translate customer application requirements, specifications, and performance expectations into product requirements, design targets, validation criteria, and engineering deliverables.
• Collaborate with customers, product engineering, manufacturing engineering, quality, supply chain, sales, and program management teams to achieve technical, commercial, and program objectives.
• Lead design reviews, technical risk assessments, DFMEA activities, and engineering decision making processes to ensure products meet performance, manufacturability, reliability, cost, and quality objectives.
• Design and develop speed and position sensing solutions, including Variable Reluctance (VR), Hall-effect/active, and Magnetic Resistive (MR) sensor technologies.
• Develop and evaluate magnetic circuit designs including pole-piece geometry, magnet selection and placement, flux-path optimization, and target/tone-wheel interactions to achieve required sensing performance.
• Analyze and optimize sensor performance including signal amplitude, waveform quality, zero crossing accuracy, timing performance, speed response, air-gap sensitivity, tolerance stack-up effects, and operation across temperature and environmental conditions.
• Develop and evaluate active sensor architectures incorporating Hall-effect and MR integrated circuits, including analog and digital signal processing, filtering, output interfaces, noise mitigation, timing performance, temperature stability, and EMC considerations.
• Support coil and electrical design activities, including turn count, resistance, inductance, signal conditioning requirements, and tradeoff analysis between output amplitude, response characteristics, and system performance.
• Design and optimize sensor packaging, encapsulation, and sealing solutions utilizing injection molding, transfer molding, low-pressure molding, overmolding, potting, and related manufacturing processes to ensure product durability and environmental protection.
• Select and evaluate materials based on thermal performance, coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), chemical compatibility, mechanical durability, and the effects of mechanical stress and thermal expansion on sensor performance.
• Plan, execute, and interpret prototype evaluations, design verification (DV), production validation (PV), and environmental testing activities using laboratory and data acquisition equipment to validate product performance and reliability.
• Assess and validate system-level performance including signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), timing accuracy, jitter, drift, electrical robustness, and environmental durability under customer-specific operating conditions.
• Lead and support root-cause investigations and corrective actions related to development issues, validation failures, manufacturing concerns, and field returns; correlate laboratory results with design, process, and application variables.
• Support Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Reliability (DFR), APQP, PPAP, and production launch activities, including resolution of launch-related technical issues and transition of products into volume manufacturing.
• Provide technical leadership in the…