Principal Engineer - Robotics

Oshkosh Corporation; Frederick (MD); On-site; USD 91,500 - 148,100; Full time

Job summary

Oshkosh Corporation in Frederick, Maryland is seeking a Principal Engineer–Robotics to provide lead engineering support for active safety, advanced driver assistance systems, and unmanned ground vehicles. This role involves managing CI/CD tools, designing test cases, and ensuring system reliability. Ideal candidates have a bachelor’s degree with five years of experience in engineering and strong programming skills in C++ and Python. The position offers a competitive salary range from $91,500 to $148,100.

Qualifications

• Accredited bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field with five or more years of related experience.
• Previous experience with software development or infrastructure development.
• Proficient in C++ and Python.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and monitor configuration standards.
• Manage CI and CD tools with team.
• Design test cases and run testing of the robotic system.
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux infrastructures

SQL

CI/CD tools

JavaScript

Education

Accredited bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Accredited bachelor’s degree in computer science or electrical engineering

Job description

The Principal Engineer–Robotics will provide lead engineering support efforts for active safety, advanced driver assistance systems, and unmanned ground vehicles system and subsystem design projects involving broad design assignments of considerable scope and complexity.

Your Impact

• Build, maintain, and monitor configuration standards
• Maintain day-to-day management and administration of projects
• Manage CI and CD tools with team
• Design and implement build, deployment, and configuration management for IoT system.
• Design test cases and run testing of the robotic system. This includes running the hardware through sets of tests to ensure performance and reliability. Test for regressions between software and firmware releases.
• Build and test automation tools for infrastructure provisioning
• Handle code deployments in all environments
• Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations
• Brainstorm for new ideas and ways to improve development delivery
• Consult with peers for feedback during testing stages
• Document and design various processes; update existing processes
• Improve infrastructure development and application development
• Understand security and encryption for over the air update
• Responsible for completion of a project or part of a project of moderate complexity on time.
• May be responsible for overall project schedule and budget.
• May be responsible for managing multiple priorities.
• Performs more complex software development, architecture design, engineering calculations, investigations, and tasks as assigned according to Oshkosh as well as general industry engineering standards and processes.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Regular attendance is required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Accredited bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field with five (5) or more years of related experience.

Standout Qualifications

• Accredited bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer or electrical engineering, previous experience with software development, infrastructure development, or development and operations for hardware/physical system.
• Proficient in C++ and Python.
• Experience with Linux infrastructures, database SQL, CI/CD tools, scripting such as JavaScript.

Pay Range

$91,500.00 - $148,100.00

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