Senior Innovation Engineer

Responsibilities

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• Investigate new and existing measurement, calibration, and sensing techniques and technologies which may be applied to the next generation of Fluke products
• Engage with customers to understand new test and measurement opportunities
• Assess the technical maturity and technology gaps to effectively solve customer problems
• Partner with design teams to generate early-stage product embodiments and prototypes of varying levels of fidelity
• Partner with a cross-functional team of business leaders, engineers, and other technologists to define vision and direction for technology development initiatives
• Identify external partnerships and manage relations to support development objectives.
• Provide technical leadership for transfer of Innovation programs to product development teams.
• Provide analysis of competitor’s products, with intent to determine unmet customer needs and enhance Fluke’s ability to serve our customers.
• Bring forth patent opportunities and partner with internal legal counsel to develop
• Contribute to Fluke’s technology roadmap development
• Cross-functional work to improve tools and processes, and consultation to accelerate time to market of new technologies
• Proactively identify people, process, and technical gaps within the team. Propose solutions and take actions to close those gaps
• Mentor and coach other team members
• Up to 25% travel, including international travel.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field with 10+ years of industrial experience.
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience with technology/product development process and bringing physical devices to market
• Considerable experience with metrology concepts (e.g. precision, resolution, tolerance, accuracy, uncertainty, repeatability) and direct practice in one or more modalities of calibration (e.g. electrical, temperature, pressure, etc.)
• Ability to work independently and manage forward progress when faced with ambiguity
• Innovative – Demonstrated creativity, flexibility, and ability to bring structure to ambiguous concepts
• Critical thinking – Motivated to experiment, apply critical thinking and problem solving to test technical and commercial hypotheses
• Customer obsessed – strong, hands-on, in-the-field, customer interaction skills
• Communication - Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communications skills. Ability to support conclusions with non-technical audiences as well as detail technical results and requirements to engineering peers.
• Experience supporting geographically dispersed teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in engineering or related discipline; MBA or equivalent business experience
• Project leadership experience
• Experience and/or interest in electrified transportation
• Previous involvement with standards committees or working groups
• Hardware design experience, analog and/or digital electronics is a plus.