Senior Staff Engineer, Electric Machines & Systems Lead

John Deere; Fargo (ND); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits with HSAs

401K and defined contribution

Tuition assistance

Employee Assistance Programs

Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms

Adoption assistance

Discount programs and employee perks

Job summary

John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group seeks a Senior Staff Engineer in Fargo, ND with extensive electric machine experience to lead architecture, design reviews, and cross-functional collaboration. You will drive thermal management, materials, and manufacturing readiness, shaping roadmaps and supplier engagement to ensure robust, serviceable solutions.

Expect to guide critical decisions, mentor engineers, and balance performance with cost and manufacturability across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in electric machine development and support across lifecycle stages.
• Ability to lead cross-functional design reviews and communicate complex decisions.
• Experience applying DFMEA, root-cause analysis and manufacturability methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead electric machine mechanical and electro-mechanical architecture, system interfaces, design practices, reviews, analysis, verification, and resolution of critical product issues.
• Provide technical expertise in thermal management, castings, fasteners, cooling, sealing, GD&T, tolerance stack-up, FEA, power electronics packaging, and system integration.
• Define and maintain the eMachine technology roadmap and development funnel.
• Lead design-for-manufacturing, industrialization, production-readiness, process-capability, and special-process quality activities for internal and supplier operations.
• Establish technical expectations and guide strategic suppliers through capability assessments, requirements alignment, design and manufacturing reviews, joint development, production readiness, performance recovery, and root-cause resolution.
• Provide technical leadership for sourcing strategy, make-versus-buy evaluations, supply-risk mitigation, alternate-source development, and business cases for critical eMachine design and manufacturing capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and technical leaders; establish reusable requirements, design practices, analysis methods, verification approaches, and lessons learned.

Skills

Electric machine design

Thermal management

Structural analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Master’s degree in Engineering (desired)

Tools

FEA

Power electronics packaging

GD&T

DFMEA

Multiphysics analysis

Job description

John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group seeks a Senior Staff Engineer in Fargo, ND with extensive electric machine experience to lead architecture, design reviews, and cross-functional collaboration. You will drive thermal management, materials, and manufacturing readiness, shaping roadmaps and supplier engagement to ensure robust, serviceable solutions.

Expect to guide critical decisions, mentor engineers, and balance performance with cost and manufacturability across multiple sites.