Principal Engineer - Autonomy & Robotics

About JLG, an Oshkosh company

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.

• 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.

• Accredited Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field with five (5) or more years of related experience.

• 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 Java Script

• Internal Contacts: Contact with peers and others involving explanation of information (these contacts may be within or outside department or division), and the gathering of factual information; may include the communication of sensitive or confidential information.
• External Contacts: Limited external contact to: gather information, answer queries, or ask assistance.
• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  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.
• Decision-Making: Regularly makes significant decisions and final results, typically affecting the entire department. Available guides or precedents are limited. Has authority over the allocation of resources.
• Complexity, Judgment and Problem Solving: 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,…