Chief Engineer, Radio Hardware

Stanley Black & Decker • Towson, MD

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Radio Hardware Chief Engineer Come make the world and accelerate your success. It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 48,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®. The Job: As Radio Hardware Chief Engineer, you’ll be part of our Tools & Outdoor team and will be working as a hybrid employee.
Radio Hardware Chief Engineer responsibilities will include assigning tasks to engineering teams, setting & maintaining alignment of long and short-term project goals, monitoring that projects are staying within time and budgetary restraints, maintaining 3-year product roadmaps, and compiling reports for leadership reviews. As a Chief Engineer, you will engage with product execution teams across all of Pro-Electrified, and will stay close to the critical projects from start to finish. You will be the technical go-to person for radio hardware and device communication standards working closely with other Product and Digital Chief’s. You will have a strong track record of delivering results with experiences including the design, implementation, verification, validation, and qualification, of embedded radio hardware, modular radio hardware, and integrated radio hardware.

Requirements

• Experience using design tools for product development and documentation.
• Established success in building, growing, and developing fast-paced, experienced teams spanning multiple disciplines in battery-powered electro-mechanical products.
• Experience developing hardware designs and applications of radios for integration into products that utilize motor drive systems.
• Expert knowledge in BLE, LoRA, and similar point-to-point or mesh Radio and wireless communication mechanisms.
• Familiarity with emerging public networks such as Amazon Sidewalk, Apple Find-Me
• 12+ years experience developing platformed, modularized, and standardized system solutions with key involvement in radio hardware development.
• Ability to own direction, technical vision, and strategy direction across multiple projects concurrently.
• Influential leader with capacity for strategic vision for a product line and knowing what it takes to drive success with those products.

Nice To Haves

• Background in Systems engineering
• Background in Functional Safety
• Masters-level business degree
• Experience in industries such as automotive, aerospace, medical devices, robotics
• Experience in the design of EE modules for battery-powered products such as power tools and outdoor power equipment

Responsibilities

• Architect the hardware integration of wireless technologies for Pro-Electrified devices
• Translate performative requirements into technical requirements.
• Collaborate with Global Supply Chain teams (Manf, Ops, Purchasing) and peer Chiefs on suppliers, footprint moves & strategies.
• Collaborate with Product Chiefs, Tool/Device Product Managers. Digital Product Managers and Digital Connect Applications Team to ensure end-to-end success of connected products.
• Define and manage platformed wireless protocols that are scalable and flexible for a variety of tool applications for BLE and other wireless mediums.
• Collaborate with product leads to ensure technical requirements result in meeting user’s needs.
• Collaborate with edge application team, front- and back-end application teams, to ensure the wireless protocol functions from an overall systems view.
• Provide strong leadership and management to a team of product development engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Drive a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Oversee the appropriate EE module and interface integration into the product development process for power tools and outdoor power equipment.
• Responsible for the Value Improvement, DTV, and Warranty improvement funnels (sustaining engineering pathways related to integrated Radio products and technologies)
• Collaborate, develop, and implement a strategic roadmap for radio modules that align with the Tools & Outdoor business unit’s product roads, goals, and long-term vision.
• Guide design verification and validation activities, including design reviews, safety reviews, module testing review, and module integration testing review.
• Work closely with the product development leads and project management office (PMO) to develop program schedules, solve technical and execution problems, and report to Senior Management on project status.
• Guide the team in refining system architecture based on assessment of progress/challenges/failures during product development process.
• Identify potential risks in product development and create strategies to mitigate them, ensuring the products launch on time and with high quality processing.
• Mentor and develop engineers to their highest potential.
• Be a Hands-on leader who is willing to dive deep, as needed.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level