Research Engineer

The GEMS Informatics Center is a joint initiative of the College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute and is a highly diverse international and interdisciplinary team of professionals. The Center is re-imagining the relationships between data, institutions, and disciplines to inform and accelerate innovation within the food and agricultural sectors. GEMS broadly seeks to make genomics, environmental, management, and socioeconomic data inter-operable at varying spatial and temporal scales to generate actionable information and promote new innovation partnerships that accelerates and sustains growth in local and global food and agricultural systems. Position Overview We seek a highly motivated multidisciplinary engineer to serve in the Runck Lab in the GEMS Informatics Center. The successful candidate will support research in instrumentation and internet of things systems and will support the GEMS Sensing Service Organization. This is a 100% research position with the primary aim of prototyping and supporting existing distributed, low cost electronics systems. Research and Development Gain expertise in and perform research, development, prototyping, testing, and scaling process architecting focused on internet-connected hardware systems Sensing and Instrumentation Robotics Manufacturing Wireless connectivity Evaluate the effectiveness of IoT technologies as used in the context of food, agricultural and natural resource applications. This could include performing user surveys, interviews, and engaging design review sessions with users. Assist in producing quality professional and policy outputs Assist the Lab Field Manager Support student and junior team members projects by providing technical expertise Education and Training Develop instructional materials for online and face-to-face environments Provide regular, on-going training on internet of things technologies for K12, undergraduate, and adult learners in internet of things technologies Responsibilities 70% - Research and Development 10% - Education and Training What you’ll need A BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a closely related field Experience of 2+ years (professional or through courses) Building 2 or more Internet of Things (IoT) prototype sensing, instrumentation, robotics, manufacturing, or wireless connectivity systems. Specifically, this includes design of power electronic systems, low power embedded systems, and analog signal chains Designing and printing PCBs Building hardware prototypes, developing firmware and/or software using tooling such as embedded C/C++, Eagle, Altium, Xilinx, Solidworks, Autodesk360. Use of a high‑level programming and scripting languages such Python, Matlab, or R, and exposure to Markdown (HTML, LaTEX) Use of GitHub and the Particle Internet of Things platform Providing technical support and developing patches for existing hardware and firmware systems Working with and maintaining 3D printers Knowledge of the complete hardware system life cycle, including specification gathering, designing, prototyping, manufacturing, quality assurance, deployment, maintenance, and decommissioning One or more experiences working in an interdisciplinary setting with software engineers, data scientists, and non-engineers What we provide (Civil Service/Labor Rep) Thirteen paid vacation days per year (starting accrual rate), in addition to 13 paid sick days and 11 paid holidays. Tuition reimbursement opportunities cover 75% - 100% of eligible tuition. Excellent and affordable health care benefits. Wellbeing Program (reduction in annual premiums). Yearly merit increase program. Many professional development opportunities. #J-18808-Ljbffr