Radian Research Careers

Position Summary:

Radian Research is an employee-owned innovative technology company with an engaging and participative work environment. We provide Electric Meter Testing Instruments, Systems, Software and Services to Electric Utility Companies, Electric Meter Manufacturers, and National Metrology Institutes for Engineering, Laboratory, Shop and Site applications. RADIAN provides both portable and primary energy reference standards unequaled in accuracy, stability, and reliability. The focus of RADIAN is our customer, and the heart of Radian is our team. We recognize and value the 3 Cs of RADIAN’s culture: Customer-centric focus, continuous improvement mindset, and care for our Customer, company, community, and for each other.

The Senior Electrical Engineer – Innovation and System Integration position is a hands-on development engineering position within the RADIAN Innovate business model and the Ideas to Innovation (I2I) development process requiring vast engineering knowledge and rapid prototyping ability. They work closely with Product Management, Field Sales and the Customer to define, develop and deliver a testing solution. They are a highly skilled systems integrator able to apply the necessary technology blocks to form a product solution to meet Customer needs in a timely manner. The technology blocks may be from a variety of existing products or they may be under development by other engineers of which the Senior Electrical Engineer – Innovation and System Integration integrates into a solution to fit the application. They develop and implement scalable technology architectures. They devise possible solutions to predicted problems, evaluating other options including risk identification, working as part of a team, which may be established purely for a particular project. They analyze customer needs and develop an overall concept and designs with an eye to performance, architecture, safety, security and scalability. From time to time, as needed, engineers and technicians from the R&D Team may be assigned to work with the Senior Electrical Engineer – Innovation and System Integration on a given project. And, from time to time the Senior Electrical Engineer – Innovation and System Integration may be assigned to work with the R&D Team on a given project.

Our Values:

We value high quality workmanship with a continuous improvement mindset, initiative, attention to detail, and Customer-centric, undivided attention and Care for our Customers, our team, and our communities.

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Responsibilities:

1) Communicate effectively to all relevant team members.
2) Conduct Technical feasibility requirements analysis on relevant technologies for proposed use in future developments.
3) Create development plans, strategies and proposed architectures for solutions that are scalable.
4) Support internal research and development teams to develop firmware, software and hardware frameworks.
5) Conduct peer design reviews for quality, performance, standard adherence and requirement satisfaction.
6) Articulate the benefits and decisions in proposing and selecting architectures or technical design solutions.
7) Contribute to directing the design and development of high reliability analog, digital and software systems.
8) The Senior Electrical Engineer – Innovation and System Integration position emphasizes ‘systems thinking’ throughout the product life cycle and assures program plans are developed and coordinated across the product line.
9) Identifies trendsetter innovative ideas by researching industry and related events, publications, and announcements; tracking individual contributors and their accomplishments.
10) From time to time support technical proposal development for new business opportunities.
11) Support technology development.
12) Support recruitment of engineering personnel.
13) Maintain ongoing quality improvement efforts.
14) Provide leadership and technical support to project team members.
15) Plan and design engineering programs and processes.
16) Work with multi-departmental teams to accomplish project goals
17) Promotes RADIAN capabilities and interests to customers and potential customers.
18) Protects RADIAN’s intellectual property by keeping information confidential.
19) Attend assigned industry meetings as needed to represent the company’s interests.
20) Other items as needed.

Education:

BS Electrical Engineering required (BS Physics considered). Additional BS in Mechanical Engineering or Computer Science is a plus and MS EE is a plus.

Experience:

Minimum of 10 years total experience in development engineering with experience as a project leader desired. Experience with analog, digital, firmware and software engineering is desired.

Skilled at:

Oral and written communications, working collaboratively, effectively interfacing with all levels of the organizational chart. Leadership abilities to provide guidance to Project Engineers, Development Engineers, Product Managers and Customer Support team.

Position location:

This person may be based at the Pearl, MS or Lafayette, IN facility with Pearl being the first choice. Whichever facility is the primary location, periodic travel will be expected to the other facility.

Travel:

Office, travel to other facility or to customer sites or conference venues
Travel Domestically: 25%
Travel Internationally: less than 5%

Please be advised U.S. Citizen / U.S. Resident is a requirement of the position. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.