JOIN SOME OF THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED DESIGN ENGINEERS IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND TWIN CITIES REGIONS
NOVO is always looking for excellent engineers to join our team, and we have design engineering jobs currently open. One of them may be a good fit for you if:
- You have strong technical skills (yes, there is a technical interview for all engineering candidates).
- You thrive in an environment that provides technical challenges.
- You appreciate having access to a vast array of fabrication, prototyping, electronic test, and software development tools.
- You want to work on meaningful products.
- You are interested in honing your product development skills.
- You are generous with your own knowledge, and open to learning from others regardless of your seniority.
San Diego, California
Senior Program Manager
Position Summary and Responsibilities
NOVO is a product development company started by engineers and managed by engineers. We are looking for individuals that excel at using their deep and broad technical design experience in the Program Manager role. The primarily responsibilities include leading day-to-day technical activities of mechanical, electrical, firmware, software and systems engineers, managing client interactions, typical project management duties, employee mentoring, and new client project proposals.
In this role, you will lead and drive the product development process from back of the napkin concepts to product acceptance. You will use your technical design background combined with demonstrated project management experience on a daily basis. Non-technical program managers need not apply.
Qualifications
Skills & Experience:
- B.S. or higher in an engineering discipline
- Minimum 5 years of project management experience
- Minimum 10 years of design engineering experience
- Leading cross-functional design teams through the product development process
- Experience working under an FDA and ISO 13485 standards a plus
- Experience with medical device development a plus
- Well versed in Design Control, Document Control, and Change Control
- Understand technical issues and drive them to closure
- Experience working with SolidWorks is preferred
- Self-motivated, proactive, creative
- Rapid development cycles
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Excellent spoken and written English skills
- Must be currently authorized to work in the US
Physical Demands
Physical:
- Requires sitting approximately 75% of time and standing/walking 25% of the time. Activities will include working on products or equipment in a lab or assembly area environment, meetings, and programming at your desk.
Manual Dexterity:
- Requires manual and digital dexterity to operate computer input devices, use shop tools, assemble and test prototype hardware.
Audible/Visual Demands:
- Requires adequate audible and visual capability to assemble and debug prototype hardware in a lab environment. Must be able to speak, read, write and understand English at a high level of proficiency.
Travel:
- Some amount of travel to various client locations is anticipated, and candidate must be physically able to travel.
Senior Firmware Developer
Position Summary and Responsibilities
NOVO is a product development company started by engineers and managed by engineers. We are looking for individuals with a passion for firmware development, strong logical and analytical reasoning, and a desire to learn new languages and technologies. You will be deeply involved in specification, design, coding, and software verification and validation testing for new product development efforts. You will meet and work with our customers, and as such will be expected to exhibit a high degree of professionalism and competence. In addition, you will be expected to be equally effective working as an individual contributor and as a member of a project team.
In this role, you will contribute to every phase of the product development lifecycle—not only on the projects to which you are assigned, but as a consultant, reviewer, or subject-matter expert on other ongoing projects. This is an opportunity to apply your skills at the highest level as part of a talented group of senior-level software architects and developers.
Qualifications
Skills & Experience:
- Required:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
- 3-5 years of experience in firmware/software development
- 3+ years developing in embedded C
- Experienced and engaged in the Agile SW development process
- Must be currently authorized to work in the US
- Highly desired:
- Experience with board bring-up – some EE knowledge
- Design and implement embedded firmware from concept to production
- Experience with Bluetooth communications
- Experience with range of microcontroller/microprocessor architectures, RTOS and other operating systems on new platforms
- Experience with medical device development process
- Familiarity with software application development in JavaScript, Python, C#, or similar high-level languages
- Good spoken and written English skills
- Plus:
- Experience in software test planning, documentation and process improvement
- Experience in development for low-level operating systems (drivers, high-speed communication, etc.)
Physical Demands
Physical:
- Requires sitting approximately 75% of time and standing/walking 25% of the time. Activities will include working on products or equipment in a lab or assembly area environment, meetings, and programming at your desk.
Manual Dexterity:
- Requires manual and digital dexterity to operate computer input devices, use electronics tools, assemble and test prototype hardware.
Audible/Visual Demands:
- Requires adequate audible and visual capability to assemble and debug prototype hardware in a lab environment. Must be able to speak, read, write and understand English at a high level of proficiency.
Travel:
- Some amount of travel to various supplier and client locations is anticipated, and candidate must be physically able to travel.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mechanical Engineer
Position Summary and Responsibilities
This engineer will have direct responsibility for research, analysis, design, sourcing, documenting and testing of new products, instruments and custom equipment as part of a team of very talented engineers. Industries served include medical device, life science and digital printing (2 and 3D). The engineer will have direct exposure to clients and will be expected to exhibit a high degree of professionalism and competence. We are looking for individuals with a genuine passion for engineering design and problem solving, and a high degree of intuition into physics and mechanics. The right candidate operates equally well as part of a team or as an individual contributor.
In this role, you will contribute to every phase of the product development life cycle. You will have exposure not only to projects to which you are assigned, but also to a wide variety of concurrent projects and technologies. This is truly an opportunity to apply your skills at the highest level as part of a team of expert-level design engineers.
Qualifications
Skills & Experience:
- B.S. in Engineering or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Four years minimum in product development
- Demonstrated product and machine design skills.
- Excellent documentation and written communication skills
- SolidWorks 2013 or later proficiency
- Strong knowledge of common manufacturing processes, mechanisms and materials
- Strong analytical skills and command of engineering fundamentals
- General knowledge of EE and SW disciplines
- Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills
- At least two full lifecycle projects
General Qualifications:
- B.S., M.S., or Ph. D in mechanical engineering
- Excellent spoken and written English communication
- Strong general computer skills
- Advanced knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel software
- Ability to produce professional-quality documentation including content, organization, and formatting
Physical Demands
Physical:
- Requires sitting 50% of time and standing/walking 50% of the time
Manual Dexterity:
- Requires manual and digital dexterity to successfully carry out the essential functions of the position
Audible/Visual Demands:
- Requires ability to hear directions and ability to visually perform essential functions for satisfactory job performance
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