Product Engineer
SUMMARY:
The Product Engineer will understand business requirements and technical limitations and translate customer needs into actionable items in collaboration with the Development team.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Translate and articulate customers’ needs into user stories.
· Write clear and concise software requirement specifications.
· Act as a Product Owner within a Scrum Team and groom the backlog.
· Review and prioritize enhancement requests and bugs.
· Collaborate with external major Stakeholders like resellers and customers.
· Act proactively by forecasting dependencies and impediments.
· Collaborate with Product Marketing on strategic projects.
· Participate actively in Portfolio meetings to ensure R&D projects prioritization.
· Lead technical meetings within the Team and outside with Stakeholders.
· Monitor the overall quality of our software and deliveries.
· Collaborate with QA department to prepare regression testing scripts.
· Prepare and update regression testing files.
· Write initial functional training and testing scripts.
· Visit customers onsite depending on future and in progress projects.
· Support and pair with Application Engineers to resolve outstanding customers issues.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Regularly required to sit for long periods and talk or hear, both in person and by telephone.
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:
As needed. Less than 10%.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
· Two or more years in Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering (ideally CAD/CAM environment).
· Ability to gather requirements and capture client needs and vision.
· Ability to iterate and communicate effectively with Teams and Stakeholders.
· Ability to challenge solutions and argue on alternatives with pragmatic perspectives
· Obsessed with finding the best ratio between effort/benefit
· Passionate about addressing right things the right way.
· BSc in Mechanical Engineering.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
· Experience in Wire EDM is a plus.
· Basic programming skills (.Net languages) is a plus.