Jobs at Allient

Develops cost estimates, quotations, bids, and technical-commercial analyses for motors, drives, gearboxes, and related systems. Reviews customer requirements, drawings, specifications, bills of material, risks, and manufacturing inputs. Acts as a liaison among customers, sales, engineering, manufacturing, and procurement while providing technical application support. Supports regulated and government-contract work, including aerospace, medical device, DoD, ITAR, export-controlled, qualification, validation, and documentation requirements.

Develops and optimizes CNC programs for multi-axis milling, turning, and mill-turn equipment. Interprets engineering drawings, selects tooling and machining parameters, supports production and new product introductions, performs inspections, and troubleshoots machining issues. Leads lean manufacturing, Kaizen, SMED, setup reduction, and process improvement initiatives. Serves as a subject matter expert by mentoring programmers, engineers, operators, and machinists while ensuring aerospace quality and regulatory compliance.

Leads go-to-market strategy, product roadmaps, marketing operations, product launches, market research, and business development for motion control products. Collaborates with engineering, R&D, sales, manufacturing, supply chain, and customers to define solutions, develop proposals, secure projects, and achieve revenue and profitability objectives. Builds strategic customer relationships, manages opportunities in CRM, and supports domestic and global growth initiatives.

Manage strategic sourcing, supplier relationships, inventory, and domestic and international logistics for an electronics manufacturing environment. Develop supply chain strategies, negotiate contracts, optimize inventory and freight costs, coordinate MRP and S&OP activities, mitigate supply risks, support new product introductions, and ensure trade, quality, and regulatory compliance. Lead continuous improvement initiatives while collaborating with engineering, manufacturing, finance, quality, and customer service teams.

Leads development and implementation of product test strategies and complete test systems. Designs, builds, commissions, and documents test equipment; writes test software; coordinates cross-functional teams; evaluates emerging test technologies; mentors engineers and technicians; and manages project costs and timelines to support efficient, high-quality manufacturing.

Designs and develops rotating machinery, primarily electric motors and mechanical assemblies, using SolidWorks and engineering standards. Creates drawings, applies GD&T, reviews manufacturability, evaluates subcontractors, develops manufacturing processes, and supports prototypes, production ramp-up, testing, and validation. Owns projects from design through final validation while collaborating with manufacturing, quality, customers, and cross-functional teams.

Designs and releases products to production, supporting customer applications, product launches, cost reductions, and manufacturing improvements. Analyzes engineering and test data, develops experimental test programs, evaluates product performance, assists with manufacturing methods and tooling, resolves design issues, and coordinates technical work across engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, customers, and sales.

Leads architecture, design, development, bring-up, debugging, validation, and manufacturing readiness for embedded electronics and motion-control hardware. Owns electrical system architecture across power, analog, digital, sensing, communications, and mixed-signal domains. Supports compliance, product integration, sustaining engineering, and production release while mentoring engineers, guiding technical strategy, and owning assigned product-line hardware throughout its lifecycle.

Develops, implements, validates, and sustains manufacturing processes to achieve quality, throughput, cost, and zero-defect objectives. Responsibilities include process layout, equipment selection, workflow design, process control, documentation, training, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, risk mitigation, engineering changes, and continuous improvement. The role supports concurrent engineering and new product introduction using APQP, PFMEA, process flow diagrams, and lean manufacturing methods.

Engineering interns will support transformer-related design and manufacturing activities, including SolidWorks drawings, part specifications, bills of materials, engineering packets, and product updates. They will collaborate with production and laboratory teams, learn testing and quality procedures, analyze designs for cost savings and producibility, and assist with mass-update projects under senior engineer guidance.

Applications Engineer supports customers and distributors with manufactured products including motors, drives, and gearboxes. Responsibilities include promoting products, preparing quotes and forecasts, coordinating engineering and production requirements, resolving technical and field issues, overseeing installations and trials, and providing customer technical assistance. The role is primarily office-based in Buffalo, New York, with occasional production-floor or lab visits and some travel.

Leads cross-functional product development and customer projects from concept through commercialization. Manages scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, reporting, and Stage-Gate compliance. Facilitates collaboration across engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, manufacturing, and sales while resolving obstacles and driving accountability. Maintains project dashboards and metrics, supports executive reporting, uses Jira and related tools, and champions continuous improvement in project execution.

Responsible for manufacturing area performance across quality, productivity, and delivery. Leads root-cause analysis, corrective actions, process improvements, bottleneck elimination, supplier quality, new process implementation, production documentation, safety improvements, and engineering change requests. Partners with production, design, customers, and suppliers while applying lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles.

Leads modeling, simulation, and quantitative analysis of electromechanical systems, including motors, drives, gears, actuators, and motion mechanisms. Develops and validates system requirements, performance, reliability, and safety models; correlates test data; supports subsystem testing and system integration; reviews designs; improves engineering processes; supports proposals and trade studies; and mentors engineers. The role requires advanced MATLAB and Simscape expertise and includes approximately 15% travel.

Manages the sales administration team and oversees sales support processes, transactions, proposals, contracts, orders, and cross-functional coordination. The role improves sales efficiency, monitors performance, manages complex customer orders, allocates team resources, and develops sales administration staff. It also supports logistics and policy implementation while ensuring sales activities align with organizational goals.

Manages simultaneous product development programs, including prototypes and production site transfers. Leads cross-functional teams, tracks schedules, budgets, and phase objectives, resolves design and manufacturing issues, develops recovery plans, and coordinates customer updates through marketing and sales. The role is primarily office-based with occasional work on production floors or in development labs.

Supports engineering operations by processing orders, maintaining technical documentation, reviewing drawings and bills of materials, updating blueprints, tracking projects, and coordinating process improvements. The role assists engineers with daily activities, maintains engineering tools and boards, documents meetings and follow-up items, and collaborates with IT and other departments to streamline workflows and improve completion times.

Leads system-level engineering for complex customer applications across electrical, mechanical, software, actuation, power, control, and composite technologies. Defines architectures, manages requirements and traceability, performs modeling and simulation, develops test plans, supports subsystem testing and integration, reviews designs, collaborates with customers and global teams, contributes to proposals and standards, and mentors engineers. Requires extensive actuation-system experience, MATLAB and Simscape expertise, and 9–11 years of engineering experience depending on degree.

Responsible for improving manufacturing operations through root-cause analysis, corrective actions, lean principles, process optimization, quality improvement, and waste reduction. Leads cross-functional teams, resolves production and customer quality issues, supports new product processes, maintains manufacturing documentation, collaborates with suppliers, addresses safety risks, and drives continuous improvement across the production floor.

Manages SEC reporting and public-company financial disclosures, including Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statements, earnings releases, financial statements, and MD&A. Leads technical accounting research, U.S. GAAP compliance, SOX and disclosure controls, XBRL filings, audit coordination, and Disclosure and Audit Committee support. Partners with executive leadership, legal counsel, auditors, investor relations, and filing agents.