Mechatronics Systems Engineer – Autonomous Products

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Join an exciting team working to advance autonomous, conventional, electrified, and smart connected products within Toro’s Landscapes and Contractor Group, consisting of Toro, Exmark and Spartan brands. This position will play a key role in defining vehicle and sub-system architectures, creating safety architectures and methodologies, developing autonomous platforms, and developing electrical and electromechanical systems.

In the Landscapes and Contractor Group, we pride ourselves in being an industry leader in developing turf care products for residential and commercial customers. Our teams strive to create innovative, productive, and reliable products while partnering with world‑class employees that bring passion to their everyday work. The Toro Corporation truly values its employees with upward career mobility and advancement opportunities.

In order to grow and build a successful career with The Toro Company, you will be responsible for:

• Leading the definition, design, development, testing, and validation of autonomous and non‑autonomous vehicle platforms.
• Conceive, architect, design, develop and verify electrical, mechanical, software, and electromechanical systems for machine control, electrification, alternative power, functional safety, and autonomous control.
  • Design responsibilities also include product cost, schedule, durability, safety, performance, manufacturability, and quality.
• Developing requirements, specifications and appropriate documentation at a systems level.
• Overseeing the detail design performed by project teams, ensuring that technical requirements packages and other documentation are completed properly.
• Performing or overseeing the analysis of proposed engineering designs using calculations, testing, data acquisition and processing, simulation or other techniques.
• Procuring and coordinating the efforts of outside consultants, labs, suppliers, etc.
• Collaborating with Legal on potential patent activities and liability avoidance.
• Developing products to meet regulatory requirements and working with applicable agencies to obtain approval.

• Plans and executes engineering development:
  • Works with engineering and product management to develop product proposals to satisfy specific market requirements.
  • Helps to establish overall product specifications and features, design features, design objectives, schedules and budgets.
  • Understands the needs and expectations of L&C customers - especially in terms of autonomous machine operation - and plans products and technologies that meet and exceed those needs and expectations.
  • Conducts feasibility studies to reveal idea practicality and potential design or program issues.
  • Assists the Test department in developing and executing test plans, and interprets results.
  • Works with project leader or acts as project leader, coordinates engineering activity, assigns tasks and duties, empowers the team.
  • Informs and updates project team members, product and engineering management and directors on project status and plan as needed.
  • Works with Marketing, Sales, Management, Shop, Drafting, Test, Research, Manufacturing, Sourcing and Accounting as required by the project.
  • Supports current products, production and suppliers. Troubleshoots issues, approves solutions and deviations, performs design and cost improvement activities.
  • Works to identify emerging technologies and participates in long‑range product planning initiatives.
  • Oversees, mentors, and reviews the work of others.
  • May have direct reports.
  • Some overnight travel may be necessary to other Toro locations, test sites, distributors, dealers, customers, suppliers, manufacturing facilities, or trade shows.

To be considered for this role, an individual should meet the following minimal requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical or mechatronics engineering, or equivalent engineering program, from an ABET accredited college or university.
• Engineer III: 5+ years…