Senior R&D Engineer

Company Overview:

Flowserve is the recognized world leader in supplying pumps, valves, seals, automation, and services to the power, oil, gas, chemical, and other industries. With more than 16,000 employees in more than 50 countries, we combine our global reach with a local presence.  We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Mechatronics Sr. Engineer to join our dynamic team and contribute to our mission to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone.

Flowserve offers competitive pay, annual bonuses, medical benefits on day 1, generous paid vacation time, paid holidays, 401(k) and many other excellent benefits!

Position Description:

Be part of the mechatronics technology platform team, responsible in converting complex and innovative mechatronic and digital solution ideas to proof-of-concept developing and product development supporting activities. Active on-site collaboration with globally distributed development teams, customers and partners. Technical project drive of topics relating to software development (understand product application, architecture, embedded software design, implementation and application concepts), control technology (control, regulation, simulation) and hardware concept development (specification, platform architecture, concept design, support partner for proof-of-concept development). The mechatronics technology platform team is placed in the I&T innovation organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Apply and expand the in-depth technical knowledge and expertise in complex projects that require mechatronics and digital solutions and apply technical knowledge and principles to develop innovative solutions.

• Expand knowledge by attending trade fairs, visiting possible technology partners and visiting Flowserve teams around the world

• Analyze state-of-the-art technologies to apply for the possible solution

• Analyze existing mechatronic products and digital solutions to find optimization and enhancement potentials

• Consult and support other globally distributed development team for mechatronics and digital solution development projects

• Be Responsible for proof of concepts and proof of value technology projects

Provide modern embedded software technology experience for innovative mechatronic products and digital solutions

• Design embedded software architectures and modular concepts for embedded software

• Design enterprise data models, operating concepts and visualization concepts for mechatronics products and IoT solutions

• Develop future proof and cyber secure embedded software

• Use modular microcontroller hardware abstraction layer technology for the firmware development

Apply modern control and simulation technologies.

• Develop with simulation tool (e.g. MATLAB/Simulink)

• Use evaluation and scripting software (e.g. Python)

• Use technologies for the rapid prototyping (e.g. hardware in the loop, code generation)

• Use modern control technologies and algorithms

To be a part for the electronics hardware development

• Design concepts (e.g. modularity) for partner hardware development

• Develop enterprise platform architecture for mechatronics products and IoT HW solutions

• Develop enterprise hardware platform guidelines and concept descriptions for mechatronics products

• Support the partner electronics hardware development

Travel to the global distributed development teams and work together with the teams

• Travel requirement (25%).

Requirements:

• University master’s degree in Mechatronics, Automation, Information Technology, Electronics or similar, with more than 6 years professional experience in the mechatronics or electrical engineering is required.

• Experience in technology and innovation, with strong interest in exploring advanced technology for potential commercialization.

• Experience in developing and commercializing new products or solutions enabled by differentiating technologies and go-to-market strategy.

• Experience in research and innovation activities, with design thinking experience considered as an asset.

• Strong communication and teamwork skills, with ability to collaborate with multiple functions across businesses.

• Ability to work in a multinational and multicultural environment.

• Language Requirement: English Level B2 or better

• Extended knowledge on modern software, data modelling and cyber secure architecture concepts

• Extended knowledge for the design of modern control and application systems

• Extended knowledge of embedded C/C++ programming

• Extended knowledge of MATLAB / Simulink simulation tools

• Experience with integration and using of embedded hardware

• Experience with modern microcontroller technology

• Experience of modern motor and drive technology

• Experience of measurement electronics development

• Experience of drive and process control theories

• Experience of modern field bus technologies and protocols