Engineer- Software & Electronics Product LIne

About the role

Pfeiffer Vacuum is seeking an Embedded Software/Hardware Support Specialist to join our team. This role provides support for operations, supply chain, and R&D, troubleshoots new and existing products, and ensures operational goals and continuous improvement for the product portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Provide Embedded Software/Hardware support for operations, supply chain and R&D.
• Troubleshooting support for new and existing products.
• Helps to ensure operational goals and continuous improvement for the product portfolio.
• Maintains, manufactures, and tests equipment to ensure highest manufacturing processes uptime and reliability.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Exercise of judgment, discretion, and tact in all business matters and business relationships is required.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain clear and cooperative working relationships with co-workers.
• Participation in and contribution to teamwork within the organization is required.
• Necessary interpersonal skills include being a self-starter, motivated, creative, flexible, self-confident, deadline oriented and able to multi-task.
• Employees must follow all quality and safety procedures of the company, including those at customer sites if applicable, and must abide by the corporate Code of Conduct in all situations.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: None.

Physical Demands

• 70% inside, climate / noise-controlled office, and 30% manufacturing environment; lifting to 50 lbs. on occasion.
• Eye and hearing protection and other personal protective equipment may be required.
• Tasks require walking, sitting, bending, reaching, mobility, frequent lifting and pushing/pulling.
• Work requires computer skills (programming in various languages and Labview, word processing, spreadsheet, and data-entry), attention to detail and accuracy.
• Communication skills including listening and speaking are required for interaction with other employees, vendors, and customers.
• Strong interpersonal skills, the ability to balance multiple tasks and any stress associated with the duties and responsibilities of this position are essential requirements in the performance of this job.

Position Requirements

• Must have strong organizational and time-management skills to prioritize and complete multiple competing tasks within a limited schedule.
• Direct experience with downstream pressure control systems and vacuum valves preferred.
• Ability to effectively communicate with coworkers, subordinates, customers, and other departmental personnel in a professional and positive manner.
• Technical writing skills to include the preparation of engineering test protocols, engineering test reports, and manufacturing Standard Operating Procedures.
• Familiarity with engineering documentation processes, especially software documentation such as block-diagrams, flow charts, SW version control systems, and the like.
• Record and evaluate testing data, alter designs as necessary to bring them to national and international safety, performance and efficiency standards.
• Familiar with software test methodologies and architecture including Jenkins environment with HIL.
• Proficient with version control systems such as GIT or Subversion.
• Requires strong ability to work with others in the department to share specific knowledge of products, processes, and/or procedures to continuously make improvements.
• Prepare and conduct technical meetings/presentations.
• Preparation of routine layouts, detail drawings, sketches, and diagrams revisions and update of CAD drawings.
• Ability to effectively use MS Office, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Teams and Sharepoint (or their equivalent).
• Ability to communicate with others in acceptance of desired changes, improvements of software design.
• Position may require travel and overnight stay on workdays and weekends.
• Proven Experience With Some Or All The Following Mandatory: Embedded systems firmware/software, C, C++, Python, PLC from Beckhoff and Siemens, LabVIEW, Control systems, PID, MPC, PCB soldering skills, EtherCat, Ethernet (TCP/IP), DeviceNet, Jenkins, HIL, SPI, I2C, RS232, RS485, CAN, SCI, UART interfaces, TI DSP C2000, C28x, TMS320x, TI Code Composer Studio, Understand PCBA layouts and schematics, Multimeters, Oscilloscopes and debugging tools.
• Optional: RTOS and bare metal firmware, Stepper motor control and encoders, Modbus, MATLAB, Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket, Azure Cloud, ARM MCUs, Keil, IAR, JTAG.

Education and/or Experience

• Any combination of education and training, equivalent to technicians or bachelor’s degree in, Software or Electrical Engineering providing the required knowledge, skill, and ability to perform the job.
• Minimum of 36-months in related software and electronics engineering, or evidence of high aptitude to learn combined with additional job-specific education.

Company Values

• Pfeiffer Vacuum V&E believes that we are all suppliers and customers of someone in our organization. Our employees must be able to demonstrate this customer-centric belief - which means that you are value-adding, reliable, performance-driven, innovative, service-minded, and agile – in all business activities.
• We expect that our companies’ values of open mindedness, trust, communication, thinking strategically/being creative, being courageous, accountability, and humility, ethical sensitivity/compliance, resilience/facing diversity and fostering a culture of empowerment, engagement and collaboration will drive the actions of our employees.

General Qualifications

• Must have strong organizational and time-management skills to prioritize and complete multiple competing tasks within a limited schedule.
• Direct experience with downstream pressure control systems and vacuum valves preferred.
• Ability to effectively communicate with coworkers, subordinates, customers, and other departmental personnel in a professional and positive manner.
• Technical writing skills to include the preparation of engineering test protocols, engineering test reports, and manufacturing Standard Operating Procedures.
• Familiarity with engineering documentation processes, especially software documentation such as block-diagrams, flow charts, SW version control systems, and the like.
• Record and evaluate testing data, alter designs as necessary to bring them to national and international safety, performance and efficiency standards.
• Familiar with software test methodologies and architecture including Jenkins environment with HIL.
• Proficient with version control systems such as GIT or Subversion.
• Requires strong ability to work with others in the department to share specific knowledge of products, processes, and/or procedures to continuously make improvements.
• Prepare and conduct technical meetings/presentations.
• Preparation of routine layouts, detail drawings, sketches, and diagrams revisions and update of CAD drawings.
• Ability to effectively use MS Office, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Teams and Sharepoint (or their equivalent).
• Ability to communicate with others in acceptance of desired changes, improvements of software design.