PURPOSE
This role is to provide embedded software engineering solutions and documentation support within the organization. This position requires creativity, innovation, electronic product design capability, product evaluation, and research. A successful candidate will be competent in the aspects of design and problem-solving from engineering first principles.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
- Interpret internal and external customer requirements to meet desired outputs.
- Conduct technical product evaluations to identify potential modes of failure as defined by existing documentation and report results back to internal and external customers.
- Communicate technical knowledge, specification, and direction to internal and external customers.
- Develop software code for embedded processors and support applications.
- Read, interpret, troubleshoot pneumatic and electrical schematics.
- Develop, troubleshoot, and configure product communication protocols.
- Create and input data utilizing corporate management system software that include software documentation, code releases, and test reports.
- Perform guided research on a variety of topics and provide summarized data results.
- Complete assigned tasks using predefined departmental processes.
- Hands on technical support for both internal and external customers.
- Participate on a team to accomplish given tasks or processes.
- Travel mainly for the purpose of training, customer support, or trade shows. (Less than 10%)
- All other duties as assigned.
- Record daily activities.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT
- Capacity to work indoors in an office, laboratory, and/or manufacturing environment.
- Ability to work in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time.
- Capability to lift objects or equipment weighing up to 51 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Physical aptitude to use basic hand tools in a laboratory and/or manufacturing environment.
- Ability to travel and/or attend meetings domestic and internationally outside of normal business hours.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in a computer science, computer engineering, electrical or technical engineering discipline, or the equivalent in appropriate education and experience as determined by management utilizing internal SMC career development criteria.
- Novice understanding of the product development process.
- Novice understanding to apply project management principles, methodologies, and documentation.
- Novice understanding of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) processes.
- Novice in use of Integrated Development Environments and code repositories.
- Competent in use of common embedded programming languages.
- Novice understanding of schematics.
- Competent understanding of communication protocols.
- Novice in conducting research using corporate resources.
- Competent at efficient use of time to effectively plan and execute multiple duties.
- Competent to utilize basic inspection equipment in a laboratory environment. (Calipers, micrometers, flow meter, voltmeter, Oscilloscope, etc.)
- Novice to utilize advanced inspection equipment in a laboratory environment. (microscopes, CMM, Contour/Roundness Measuring Instruments, etc.)
- Competent ability to communicate utilizing corporate office software.
- Competent ability to take verbal and/or written direction on tasks, training, or departmental / company policies.
- Competent ability to communicate, in English, with internal and external customers tactfully and professionally.
SMC Corporation of America is a part of a global organization that supports our customers in every industrialized country and is the U.S. subsidiary of SMC Corporation based in Japan. Since its establishment, SMC has been a leader in pneumatic technology, providing the various industries with technology and products to support automation based on the guiding principle of “contributing to automation labor savings in industry.” Over the past 50+ years, SMC's products have become established as a recognized international brand through sales, technical, supply and after sale services in world markets. Sales have grown to achieve a 30% global market share.
Subsidiaries and joint ventures have been setup in a total of 53 countries. Production facilities are located in 30 countries. In addition, a sales network extends throughout 83 countries, with local services in 500 locations. SMC offers technology accumulated through the years, engineers that bring it to life in new products, production capacity which can deliver a variety of products in a short time, and an extensive sales network in the U.S. and throughout the world.
With its goal of ever more advanced automation, and using its many achievements as a base, SMC is developing high-quality, highly reliable products to contribute to automation in industry, as well as in familiar areas of everyday life.