pay up to 95k
The Design Automation Engineer is responsible for using Driveworks, Solidworks and PDM to automate the configurations of all company products. Responsibilities also include the integration of product configurations with other business systems, including but not limited to ERP, CRM and e-commerce.
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with internal engineering team and management, and external consultants as appropriate, to implement the master plan for automating the design configurations of all products;
- Using Driveworks, develop product configurators following the user interface standard for the configurator with a consistent, modern user experience (UX) across different product families. Headless Design methodology to enable aligning Configurator front end with other platforms (e.g. e-commerce);
- Create and implement, for each product family, the rules-based configurator for that family, covering all needed configurations, appropriate help popups, and other features needed to make configurations;
- Troubleshoot configuration failures and bugs in a timely manner;
- Working with the Design Automation Project Leader, support the justification of Solidworks or Driveworks add-on modules that are needed to enable efficient business operations, marketing activities, and streamlined engineering and/or manufacturing workflow for product configurations;
- Test and debug all product configurators prior to release. Validate correct results, including transfer of any data to/from connected company business systems. Design, develop and maintain SQL databases used to store product data for the design tools of company.
- Collaborate closely with other departments and outside consultants on integration of the configurator with other business systems, including ERP, CRM, and e-commerce. Understand business requirements and accordingly develop configuration specifications;
- Work with sizing tools, engineering and software teams to develop data transfer tables to connect sizing tools to the appropriate product configurators;
- Create necessary documentation of programming guides, data transfer maps, etc. for reference use by other developers and team members on Confluence, draw.io etc;
- Keep abreast of needed software updates, add new products as needed, recommend enhancements and new features as they are released, etc. Support version control and change management;
- Use tools such as Grafana to incorporate observability into developed configurators and other tools. Use MELT methodology (Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces).
Required Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering required, with software elective concentration or Computer Science minor;
- Strong knowledge of Solidworks for mechanical engineering and design;
- Experience with creating models and drawings with precision tolerances;
- Experience and understanding of product configurators. Familiarity with Driveworks a plus;
- Understanding of design automation and ERP tools, and the integration of these tools in a manufacturing environment;
