The Principle Design Engineer will be an integral member of the Itron R&D team, working with other members of product development and test engineers to define, architect, and write firmware for battery powered ZigBee products within Itron's OpenWay Advanced Metering Initiative (AMI) solution. This role is located in the facility in Waseca, MN.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience architecting and writing firmware for code constrained applications (executables less than 128k) and has delivered a minimum of two products from concept to high volume production. Experience with battery powered applications and ZigBee are a plus. The candidate chosen will contribute to meeting Itron's revenue goals through timely delivery of high-quality products in the Itron AMI solution.

Duties:

• Participate in and sometimes lead firmware/product requirements discussions.
• Contribute to or lead in the creation of firmware design specifications, interface specifications, test specifications, and technical reports.
• Architecting, writing, and validating firmware to meet the required specifications.
• Participate in product design reviews, code reviews, walkthroughs, and product lifecycle inspections.
• As part of firmware validation, support integration, interoperability and system testing and characterization.
• Provide firmware support to design, manufacturing, test, and systems engineering.
• Mentor less senior individuals in sound engineering practice.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Must have the drive and leadership abilities to develop the expertise and reputation to be recognized as a valued member of the R&D team.
• Must be able to work independently or as a member of a cross-functional team, to multi-task and do what it takes to meet high expectations and tight deadlines. Will be working on highly visible projects in high-pressure situations.
• Proven experience participating in multi-site teams on development projects and helping to facilitate development activities in a large-team environment.
• Extensive experience coding and troubleshooting real-time embedded firmware for microcontrollers systems utilizing C, C++, or C# as well as assembly.
• Experience in writing code supporting digital, low speed analog and RF designs.
• Proven ability to write code for a code constrained environment (executables less than 128k).
• Proficiency with Microsoft Windows operating system and Office products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Access.
• Must have good written & oral communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately with different design and test groups, Marketing, Product Management, vendors and partners, and sometimes with customers.
• Must be able to travel occasionally to other Itron, Itron partner or customer sites.

Education:

Bachelors Degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline.

Experience:

10+ years of relevant experience.

The Senior Principal Design Engineer will be an integral member of the Itron R&D team, working with other members of product development and test engineers to define, architect, and design analog, RF, and digital circuits for battery powered AMR products. This role is located in Waseca, MN.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience designing battery powered analog and RF circuits that employ microcontrollers and other integrated circuits (e.g. RF transceivers). The candidate should have a thorough understanding of RF design and experience in the 900 MHz region.

Duties:

• Architect the electronic circuits for the AMR module and set technical direction.
• Work with equipment (Spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, impedance analyzers, RF generators, oscilloscopes, etc.) to design, develop, test, and trouble shoot product.
• Performing simulations and developing models to help validate the design.
• Participate in and lead design requirements discussions.
• Contribute to or lead in the creation of design specifications, interface specifications, test specifications, and technical reports.
• Participate in and lead design reviews, code reviews, walkthroughs, and product lifecycle inspections.
• As part of design validation, support integration, interoperability and system testing and characterization.
• Provide design support to design, manufacturing, test, and systems engineering.
• Stay current on new technologies.
• Mentor less senior individuals in sound engineering practice.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Must have the drive and leadership abilities to develop the expertise and reputation to be recognized as a valued member of the R&D team.
• Must be able to work independently or as a member of a cross-functional team, to multi-task and do what it takes to meet high expectations and tight deadlines. Will be working on highly visible projects in high-pressure situations.
• Proven experience participating in multi-site teams on development projects and helping to facilitate development activities in a large-team environment.
• Extensive experience designing digital, analog, and RF circuits.
• Experience and understanding of embedded code.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Windows operating system and Office products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Access.
• Must have good written & oral communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately with different design and test groups, Marketing, Product Management, vendors and partners, and sometimes with customers.
• Must be able to travel occasionally to other Itron, Itron partner or customer sites.

Education:

• Bachelors Degree or higher in Electrical Engineering.

Experience:

12+ years of relevant experience.

As a Sr. Product Manager you are responsible for the overall business health of the product(s) in your control. Includes forecasting market potential, identifying market requirements and developing business plans that ensure the products are sound in terms of profitability and customer satisfaction. This role is located at the corporate headquarters in Liberty Lake, WA.

Duties:

• Manage the availability of applications on all Non AMR / AMI applications.
• Manage product development, test compatibility of all 3rd party ZigBee devices including:
  • ZigBee Based- Smart thermostats.
  • DCU (Comverge and/or other third parties).
  • In- home displays.

Qualifications:

• Ability to take input from many internal/external sources and turn the information into sound business decisions is fundamental to success in this role.
• A proven track record in motivating and managing a cross functional team is required to ensure your success.
• Must have a strong technical aptitude and ability to solve problems.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and professional presentation skills.

Education:

BS degree in Electrical Engineering

The Manufacturing Engineer will perform a variety of tasks related to the manufacturing of electronic printed circuit boards, from the maintenance, programming, and specifying automated assembly equipment. A team-environment is promoted to solve problems affecting the manufacture of our boards. This role is located at the facility in Oconee, SC.

Duties:

• Troubleshoot and maintain production equipment in the event of failure.
• Continuous improvement of quality, cycle time, and reliability of production equipment through hardware and/or software modifications.
• Design, implementation, and documentation of new production process equipment as needed.

Qualifications:

• SMT process knowledge.
• Knowledge of reflow, wave and hand soldering technologies.
• Good oral and written communication skills are a must, as is the ability and willingness to learn as you go.
• Universal Placement Equipment Experience a plus.
• Familiarity with IPC610 and J-STD-001B a plus.

Education:

BS in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.

Contributing in the electronics and firmware disciplines, the successful employee will participate and take a responsible position in the development of high volume, cost-competitive, and space optimized circuit boards and their interfaces. This includes selection of design approach, discrete component evaluation and selection, schematic development, and generation of control firmware. An understanding of optimization for reliability and cost for high volume production will be a key component of good performance.

Qualifications:

• BSEE or BS Electronics Engineering Technology required.
• 3+ years in the following: 1) Digital circuit design and test 2) Circuit simulation experience (Spice, Matlab, or similar) 3) Firmware/embedded logic (C code) development 4) Analog circuit design.
• Experience not required but noted as a plus includes:
  • High volume manufacturing.
  • Mechanical development.
  • Polyphase AC service understanding.

This Senior RF Systems Engineer will be an integral member of the Itron R&D team, working with product development and test engineers to perform system-level design and analysis on ZigBee products within Itron's OpenWay Advanced Metering Initiative (AMI) solution. This role is located in at the headquarters in Liberty Lake, WA.

The ideal candidate has experience working as a Systems Engineer, System Architect, or Design Engineer on RF systems, and understands RF design issues and limitations from a systems perspective. The candidate can use that knowledge of RF to help guide the definition and development of system-level specifications and designs.

Preference will be given to candidates experienced working with two-way wireless networking systems utilizing IEEE 802.15 or 802.11 standards. We are especially seeking candidates that can demonstrate knowledge of the IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee standards and ZigBee protocol stack functionality, and who have experience working with ZigBee chipsets from Ember, Freescale, or TI/Chipcon.

Duties:

 The candidate chosen will contribute to meeting Itron's revenue goals through timely delivery of high-quality products in the Itron AMI solution.

• Participate and sometimes lead in the development and execution of system-level requirements, architecture, designs, tests, implementation and analysis of Itron ZigBee based AMI products, as well as the overall Itron AMI solution.
• Work with Marketing, Product Management, Sales and customers to identify market requirements and reduce into system requirements.
• Create or contribute to system and product requirements, system functional specifications, interface specifications, test specifications, and technical reports.
• Assess and verify the system feasibility of technical decisions made by the team, consider technology implications, anticipate and identify technical problems, suggest alternative approaches.
• Participate in product design reviews, code reviews, walkthroughs, and product lifecycle inspections.
• Participate in system test and characterization, interoperability tests, and perform field performance validation of new and existing system implementations.
• Conduct system analysis and perform problem investigation and resolution. Author internal and external technical papers and case studies.
• Evaluate Itron designs for possible patent applications and provide thorough analysis of competitive patents, products, and technical positions, and formulate Itron responses to these issues.
• Work with Engineering and Product Management to evaluate OEM and third-party partner's ZigBee products for possible integration into the solution.
• Provide help with RFP responses to Sales and Marketing.
• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions for Marketing, Sales, Implementation, Support, and other staff.
• Provide technical support for Marketing, Sales, Implementation, Support, and other staff.

Qualifications:

• Must have the ability to develop the expertise and reputation needed to be recognized as an advisor to engineering and other groups.
• Must be able to work independently or as a member of a cross-functional team, to multi-task and do what it takes to meet high expectations and tight deadlines. Will be working on highly visible projects in high-pressure situations.
• Proven experience participating in multi-site teams on development projects and facilitating development activities in a large-team environment.
• Working knowledge of RF and wireless networking system concepts including path loss, interference, PHY and MAC layers, protocols, layered software architectures, etc.
• Experience with wireless standards, wireless protocols and interfaces such as 802.15.4 / ZigBee (preferred), Bluetooth, WiFi, etc. Ability to quickly analyze and adapt to changing wireless standards. Prior knowledge of the 802.15.4 and ZigBee standards and ZigBee protocol stack functionality, and experience working with ZigBee chipsets would be very helpful.
• Working knowledge of RF test tools (protocol and signal analyzers, simulators, etc.) and setups to test performance, interference, etc. Experience performing analysis in the field and in RF screen rooms and anechoic chambers helpful.
• Experience with data and network security implementation such as encryption engines, network security and link keys, security trust centers, etc.
• Experience coding and troubleshooting real-time embedded firmware for microcontrollers systems. Experience programming in any of the following: C, C++, C#, scripting languages such as Perl or Python, and SOAP.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new test equipment or tools and the ability to create software test tools and tools from ZigBee development kits.
• Experience using scripts to extract data from relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, and MS Access.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Windows operating system and Office products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Access.
• Must have good written & oral communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately with different design and test groups, Marketing, Product Management, vendors and partners, and sometimes with customers.
• Must be able to travel occasionally to other Itron sites, field test sites, and partner or customer sites.

Education:

Bachelors Degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

Experience:

6-10 years of relevant experience.

Itron Inc. currently has a job opening for an RF Design Engineer in its West Union, SC. facility. The primary responsibilities for this position are to assist in the design and testing of high-volume, low-cost RF communication circuits that operate in the unlicensed 900MHz frequency band. People who like challenges and are motivated to drive this wireless communications technology in a cooperative team environment are encouraged to apply.

Major Responsibilities/Duties:

• Involved in RF circuit design from concept to production for low cost wireless communications product-line, including RF filters and matching, synthesizers, VCOs, power amplifiers and integrated circuit transceivers.
• Conduct RF circuit measurements using laboratory spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, network analyzers, etc.
• Create models using RF simulation tools.
• Participate in field studies and system test activities.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Education:

Bachelors or Masters Degree in Electrical/Electronics or Communications Engineering (or equivalent).

Experience:

• Must have a fundamental understanding of wireless communication principals and theories, 5 years product development experience is preferred unless exceptional fresh graduate.
• RF Military experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with advanced modeling, simulation and networking analysis tools.
• Knowledge of FCC regulations for wireless communications.
• Excellent verbal and technical writing skills * 5+ years experience in RF Design required.

This Senior Design Assurance Engineer ideal candidate has experience working as a System Test Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, or Design Engineer on two-way wireless or wired networking systems utilizing 802.15 or 802.11 and TCP/IP. Preference will be given to candidates that can demonstrate knowledge of the 802.15.4 and ZigBee standards and ZigBee protocol stack functionality, and experience working with ZigBee chipsets from Ember, Freescale, or TI/Chipcon. This role is located at the corporate headquarters in Liberty Lake, WA.

Duties:

The candidate chosen will contribute to meeting Itron's revenue goals through timely delivery of high-quality products in the Itron AMI solution.

• Lead and participate in planning, specification and execution of ZigBee network system testing and characterization, ZigBee product interoperability tests, and assist with field performance validation of new and existing system implementations.
• Create and manage test objectives, test plans and schedules. Coordinate test resources.
• Create or contribute to system test specifications, product test specifications, test designs, and test cases. Automate tests where possible.
• Execute test plans and test cases to verify system and product functionality and performance. Verify documentation and on-line help content. Complete test result reports.
• Conduct system analysis and perform problem investigation and resolution. Create or contribute to internal and external technical papers and case studies.
• Participate in the system-level requirements, architecture, design, development, implementation and analysis of Itron ZigBee based AMI products, as well as the overall Itron AMI solution.
• Participate in product design reviews, code reviews, walkthroughs, and product lifecycle inspections.
• Work with Engineering and Product Management to evaluate OEM and third-party partner's ZigBee products for possible integration into the solution.
• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions and provide technical support for Marketing, Sales, Implementation, Support, and other staff.

Qualifications:

• Must be able to work independently and as a member of a cross-functional team, to multi-task and do what it takes to meet high expectations and tight deadlines. Will be working on highly visible projects in high-pressure situations.
• Working knowledge of RF and wireless networking system concepts, wireless standards, wireless protocols and interfaces such as 802.15.4 / ZigBee (preferred), Bluetooth, WiFi, etc. Ability to quickly analyze and adapt to changing wireless standards. Prior knowledge of the 802.15.4 and ZigBee standards and ZigBee protocol stack functionality, and experience working with ZigBee chipsets would be very helpful.
• Working knowledge of analog, digital and RF test tools (oscilloscopes, protocol and signal analyzers, simulators, etc.) and setups to test performance, interference, etc. Experience testing software applications is helpful.
• Experience coding and troubleshooting real-time embedded firmware for microcontrollers systems. Experience programming in any of the following: C, C++, C#, scripting languages such as Perl or Python, and SOAP.
• Experience using scripts to extract data from relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, and MS Access.
• Experience using defect tracking tools such as Rational ClearQuest. Experience using software test tools such as the Rational suite of tools is helpful.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new test equipment or tools and the ability to create software test tools and tools from ZigBee development kits.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Windows operating system and Office products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Access.
• Must have good written & oral communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately with different engineering groups, Marketing, Product Management, vendors and partners, and sometimes with customers.
• Must be able to travel occasionally to other Itron sites or to field test sites.

Education:

Bachelors Degree or higher in Electrical or Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

Experience:

6-10 years of relevant experience.

Itron is looking for a Sr. Field Engineer for a project on the East Coast. This role provides highly visible customer support through the performance of on-site installation, as well as overseeing any necessary diagnoses, troubleshooting, service, and repair of complex equipment and systems. Checks out and approves operational quality of system equipment. Instructs customers in the operation and maintenance of the system. Serves as company liaison with customer on administrative and technical matters for assigned projects. Interprets customers' needs and clarifies if the responsibility for problem resolution falls to sales personnel, customer support reps, or engineers. This job may include any aspect of field support, and is not limited to system hardware and software, PCs, and networking/wireless networking.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Install and repair electronic equipment.
• Consult with customer or supervisor to plan layout of equipment.
• Provide on-site technical assistance to investigate, troubleshoot and repair equipment.
• Inspect malfunctioning or damaged product to determine nature and scope of problem.
• Analyze data and inspection findings to recommend repair, replacement or other corrective action.
• Expedite repairs.
• Develop and conduct training on the installation and safe operations of the equipment to both internal and external customers.
• Recommend modifications to eliminate future problems.
• Develop service handbooks and bulletins based on field investigations, engineering changes and overall knowledge of product.
• Provide a communication link between the customer and the company to ensure effective service is provided.

Job Competencies:

• Adaptability = Adapts to change quickly, is open to new ideas, takes on new responsibilities, handles pressure, adjusts plans to meet changing needs, direction and new challenges.
• Customer Focus = Builds internal and/or external customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met, solicits opinions and ideas from customers, responds to customers.
• Knowledge = Understands and exhibits a working knowledge of own duties and responsibilities, has necessary job, product and customer knowledge, has necessary technical skills, understands company mission/values, keeps job knowledge current, is in command of critical issues.
• Leadership = Leads through change and adversity, exhibits honesty, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others. Demonstrates a strong vision for the future and helps others see beyond a narrow focus and how they fit into the big picture.
• Negotiation Skills = Conducts positive negotiations, ability to compromise, handles conflict, seeks common ground, articulates own and others goals, stays focused on positive outcome.
• Problem Solving/Analysis = Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues, and understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts. Owns problems and follows solution to completion.
• Quality = Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Teamwork = Meets all team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, shares knowledge, helps co-workers to meet goals, makes the most of individual strengths, welcomes newcomers, promotes a team atmosphere, and actively seeks out perspectives different from your own to get to the best solutions.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge:
  • Has full understanding of area of specialization.
  • Resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways.
  • Applies technical skills to advanced assignments.
• Job Complexity:
  • Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
  • Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Interaction:
  • Deals with external contacts on a regular basis to exchange information * Networks with senior internal contacts in own area of expertise.
• Supervision:
  • Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work, general instructions on new assignments.
• Contribution:
  • Sets and manages project schedules.
  • Adapts projects based on customer input.
  • Creates new approaches for obtaining results.
  • Provides training and guidance to others.

Experience:

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience.

Education:

Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.

Travel:

50-75%