Principal Engineer - Autonomy & Robotics

Oshkosh Corporation•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

JLG began in 1969, when our founder, John L. Grove set out to resolve growing safety concerns in the construction industry. Since then we have been committed to understanding the challenges and delivering innovative solutions to the access market. We partner with customers to provide quality equipment, training opportunities and trusted support within the access industry. We are a global company, and our products—including mobile elevating work platforms, telehandlers, utility vehicles and accessories—can be found all over the world. The Principal Engineer-Autonomy 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.

Requirements

Accredited Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field with five (5) or more years of related experience.
Read, write and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos
Read and interpret safety rules, operating/maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
Write routine reports, correspondence and speak effectively before both internal and external groups
Read, analyze and interpret business manuals, technical procedures and/or government regulations
Read, analyze and interpret scientific and technical journals, financial reports and legal documents.
Work requires the ability to plan and perform work in light of new or constantly changing problems, work from broad instruction, and deal with complex factors not easily evaluated.
Decisions require considerable judgment, initiative and ingenuity in areas there is little precedent.
General instructing, scheduling, and reviewing the work of others performing the same or directly related work.
Acts as “lead worker”.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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.