As a family-owned and operated company, we feel a special obligation to the employees who comprise our Taco family. We are committed to offering employees access to the tools necessary to live long and productive lives. We strive to instill in all of our employees:
- A positive mental attitude that helps us to be a leader in the industry
- A commitment to building strong relationships, both inside and outside the organization
- A desire to learn, grow, and contribute to moving our strategy forward
- A need to create and to innovate
Employment Type: Regular Full-Time
Shift: 1st Shift
Work Status: Hybrid
Position Summary:
The Embedded Controls Engineer II performs an assortment of complex engineering duties in the development, design, and implement of hardware and firmware for embedded systems, ensuring that the project objectives and schedules are met.
Measures of success:
- Accurately develop Functional Specifications
- Accurately develop Circuit Schematic and Printed Circuit Board design
- Accurately develop Circuit Simulation
- Accurately develop Firmware
- Accurately develop Purchase Specification
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Creates Circuit Schematic/Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design.
- Performs coding, testing, debugging, and modifying of complex embedded systems.
- Coordinates and participates in hardware and firmware design reviews and code reviews.
- Documents and archives software program releases in accordance with company software development process.
- Develops product requirements specifications and product functional specifications.
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions.
- Analyzes hardware and firmware requirements to determine feasibility of design.
- Identifies, evaluates, documents, and mitigates issues and risks across hardware/firmware applications.
- Contributes to project plans by providing timescale and cost estimate.
- Familiar with Underwriters Laboratories (UL), Canadian Standards Association (CSA), Electrical Utilities (EU), and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements.
- Assists with coaching and mentoring associate-level engineers for skill and knowledge development.
- Provides technical expertise on embedded hardware to multiple project teams, sales and marketing, quality services and customers.
- Writes concise yet comprehensive technical documentation.
- Supports production with the life cycle demands of current products.
- Assists in the resolution of product-based technical issues.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
- Six plus (6+) years of embedded systems hardware and firmware development
- Familiar with power electronics hardware development
- Strong working knowledge of Circuit Schematic and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design tools
- Familiarity with Simulation tools (Matlab-Simulink; PSpice; Python)
- Strong working knowledge of basic electrical; testing equipment (i.e., logic analyzers, scopes, spectrum analyzer and multi meters, etc.)
- Strong C programming and assembly languages skills
- Working knowledge of Version Control and bug tracking software
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Excellent organizational, communication and teamwork skills
Minimal travel to conferences, trainings, and customers
Work Environment
This position works primarily in an office environment using computers and technology. Verbal and auditory capability are required. Occasional exposure in production plant where large equipment and noise are prevalent. Safety gear is required in these areas.
This position may work from home up to 2X/week if performance is in good standing.
This position has no direct reports.
Benefits
With nearly 1,000 people working at Taco worldwide, each with their own story, you will discover a sense of community and diverse, intelligent colleagues who help us innovate, create and explore.
Taco employees benefit from a company that:
- Provides competitive salaries and benefits
- Offers tuition reimbursement, career development, and on-site training programs in our learning center
- Believes in sharing profits with its employees
- Is mindful about family, health and well-being
- Fosters conditions that allow people and communities to reach their full potential
- Embraces and celebrates diversity
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What We Do
Taco Comfort Solutions is a third generation, family-owned American manufacturer of high quality, high-efficiency heating, cooling, plumbing, and irrigation products. #Taco100years
Headquartered in Cranston, RI, Taco is global in scope with manufacturing facilities in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Ontario, Vietnam, and Italy. Its skilled employees produce precision pumps, valves and controls, air-dirt separators. heat exchangers, tanks, domestic hot water recirculation systems, and web-based building management controls.
Since its founding, Taco has been dedicated to the success of its people and its customers, bringing products to market that save energy, enhance system longevity, and provide a superior level of safety and comfort to building occupants.
With nearly 100 years in the HVAC industry, Taco’s knowledge and engineering expertise is passed along to professionals through the company’s expansive factory training and online learning programs. That same depth of experience is applied every day at hundreds of job sites across the country, making Taco one of the most trusted names in controlling the flow of water.
Website: www.TacoComfort.com
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