Senior Staff Engineer - Product Engineering

Your Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Engineer for John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group located in Fargo, ND or Cary, NC, Moline, IL, Des Moines, IA, Waterloo, IA, you will:

• Lead electric machine mechanical and electro-mechanical architecture, system interfaces, design practices, reviews, analysis, verification, and resolution of critical product issues.
• Provide technical expertise in thermal management, castings, fasteners, cooling, sealing, GD&T, tolerance stack-up, FEA, power electronics packaging, and system integration. Guide cross-functional design decisions for robust, manufacturable, and serviceable solutions.
• Define and maintain the eMachine technology roadmap and development funnel. Evaluate motor architectures, magnetic and insulation materials, winding technologies, cooling concepts, analytical tools, and emerging manufacturing methods; translate promising technologies into prioritized investigations and development plans.
•  Lead design-for-manufacturing, industrialization, production-readiness, process-capability, and special-process quality activities for internal and supplier operations. Connect product design decisions with manufacturing capability, quality, cost, durability, and service performance, and guide resolution of production and warranty issues.
• Establish technical expectations and guide strategic suppliers through capability assessments, requirements alignment, design and manufacturing reviews, joint development, production readiness, performance recovery, and root-cause resolution. Provide technical input to supplier selection and long-term supplier development.
• Provide technical leadership for sourcing strategy, make-versus-buy evaluations, supply-risk mitigation, alternate-source development, and business cases for critical eMachine design and manufacturing capabilities. Identify where Deere requires internal expertise, tools, processes, or manufacturing capability to protect product delivery and long-term competitiveness.
• Mentor engineers and technical leaders; establish reusable requirements, design practices, analysis methods, verification approaches, and lessons learned; and strengthen cross-functional capability across engineering, manufacturing, quality, PV&V, supply management, and service. 

VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position

What Skills You Need

• 10 or more years of experience developing and supporting complex electric machine, electro-mechanical, propulsion, drivetrain, or rotating-equipment products across design, development, manufacturing, validation, production, or field support.
• 10 or more years of experience applying structured product-development processes to move complex electro-mechanical products from concept and requirements through design, verification, industrialization, launch, and production support.
• Knowledge of electric machine and mechanical systems design, including thermal management, cooling, sealing, GD&T, tolerance analysis, FEA, power electronics packaging, manufacturing, and system integration.
• Experience establishing product requirements and applying design reviews, DFMEA, multiphysics analysis, root-cause analysis, technical risk assessment, and design-for-manufacturability methods to complex electro-mechanical products.
• Ability to balance performance, durability, cost, quality, manufacturing, and supplier considerations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams, resolve competing technical priorities, and communicate complex decisions, risks, and trade-offs to engineering and business leaders.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally to support suppliers, manufacturing, and technology development. 

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience with rotor, stator, winding, insulation-system, magnetic-material, cooling, bearing, housing, sealing, or structural design for electric machines.
• Experience with eMachine industrialization, supplier manufacturing assessments, and production readiness.
• Knowledge of alternative magnet materials, rare-earth-free technologies, advanced windings, or next-generation motor architectures.
• Experience defining, documenting, and communicating technical roadmaps; leading supplier development or technology investigations; and using competitive benchmarking to prioritize engineering investment.
• Experience supporting sourcing strategy, manufacturing business cases, business continuity, or vertical-integration studies.
• Demonstrated success mentoring engineers and building reusable technical capability.
• Experience with agricultural, construction, turf, commercial-vehicle, automotive, or industrial electrification products. 

Education

Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Desired: Master's degree in Engineering or demonstrated technical expertise of equivalent depth and scope.