LabVIEW systems engineer

Role: Experienced Systems engineer (LabVIEW / NI)

Location: Sheffield

Salary: Competitive + Bonus

We are systems integrators that provide bespoke hardware engineering, software development services, for a wide range of automated data acquisition, test, measurement, control and IIoT applications. As a dynamic SME our customers are from a range of industries including automotive, academia, energy and aerospace, and are located throughout the UK, and sometimes overseas.

Due to our success, we are looking for experienced engineers to join our growing team. As an individual, you will have a driven and results-focused attitude.

The entry point for joining as a System Engineer or Snr System Engineer will be dependent on your technical knowledge and proven capabilities in the relevant areas. We are looking for the right fit and are open to talking to different skill-level people.

Some companies say ‘ Our Team’ to refer to their staff. But our staff really are a team. We proactively foster a collaborative, supportive, vibrant culture. Our passionate developers, systems architects, electrical and mechanical engineers, and data scientists, work together to combine expertise in leading hardware and software to develop innovative solutions. We relish a challenge, working with new clients to deliver the right solution for the application and work together to make sure what we do is enjoyable and everyone is heard.

All our System Engineers are customer-facing and own projects. The responsibilities of a System Engineer and a Senior Systems Engineer are the same, however, the Senior Systems Engineer, acting at the Lead Engineer level, architects, develops, & manages larger, more complex systems through the full lifecycle.

Primary Engineering contact to the customer throughout project for project reviews, managing other internal engineers involved, and responsible for ensuring we deliver to deadlines and Milestones. Snr engineers are also heavily uninvolved in Sales to create quotations - definsing the solution including costing Hardware and Software.

You will help customers across a wide range of applications and industries with a diversity of issues, from delivering small data acquisition systems or debugging existing client systems through to the development and the onsite commissioning of complex control and data acquisition systems. The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to;

• Full lifecycle project delivery as part of a team (size of project dependent on experience)
• Providing timely, accurate and effective solutions to technical problems.
• On-site installation and commissioning of both HW and SW systems
• Programming memory and speed efficient data acquisition and control applications.
• Developing intuitive graphical user interfaces.
• Selecting the correct measurement hardware for a given application based on a customer’s specification.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, product hardware and software engineers, throughout each system’s development and production life-cycle.
• Troubleshooting problems in systems that include both software and hardware.
• Delivering technical presentations and demonstrations to customers, colleagues and partners.
• Architecture design and project management through the full project lifecycle and managing internal project teams. The complexity and size of projects will increase based on an individual’s skills and capabilities.
• Working with the business development team to develop technical solutions and provide project costings based upon discussions with the client, including requirements qualification and response to RFQ’s.
• Creating technical documentation in line with our quality assurance system, including specifications, test plans and user manuals.
• PLC or NI instrumentation and control panel experience.

You must exhibit strong problem-solving, communication and business acumen skills alongside a passion for technology. It is crucial that as part of this role, you maintain a close working relationship with the team involved in building the systems to ensure that issues are quickly resolved and lessons are learnt for future…