Principal Electrical Controls Engineer
Location: near Racine, WI
Salary: $150,000-$160,000 + Bonus Potential
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA, Life, 401K, Holidays, PTO
Job Type: Full-Time
Typical Hours: M-F; 8am-5pm with some flexibility around start/end times (~45 hours/week)
Start Date: ASAP
Sponsorship is not available
A Note About This Position
Formal people leadership experience is not required for this role. We're open to candidates who have developed their leadership experience as a technical lead, project lead, or senior engineer, with a track record of setting priorities, coordinating resources, making technical decisions, and driving projects through completion. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical foundation, including previous hands-on software or firmware development experience. They should be able to understand technical work, provide guidance, ask informed questions, and challenge approaches when needed.
Principal Electrical Controls Engineer (Systems Integration Projects) Description
Our client, an industrial manufacturer outside of Racine, WI, is looking to add technical leadership within their engineering team to provide direction, structure, and guidance across embedded systems initiatives supporting their electro-hydraulic product portfolio. Coming off their most profitable year to date, the company offers the stability of an established manufacturer while continuing to invest in new technology and engineering capabilities. This newly created position provides an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on how the team operates, with the autonomy to establish best practices, provide technical guidance, and help shape the future of their embedded systems organization.
The Engineering Manager will provide technical oversight across embedded software, controls, vision systems, and hardware integration projects while partnering closely with mechanical and electrical engineering teams. This is a role where your perspective will not only be valued but genuinely sought out as the organization continues to evolve its engineering processes, testing practices, and development standards.
Principal Electrical Controls Engineer (Systems Integration Projects) Responsibilities
• Provide technical direction for embedded software, vision, controls, and hardware
• Lead technical and project execution across embedded systems initiatives
• Set goals, mentor engineers, and provide performance feedback
• Lead project planning, prioritization, resources, timelines, scope, and change management
• Partner with mechanical and electrical teams on software and hardware integration
• Provide technical guidance and challenge approaches when appropriate
• Establish best practices for software development, testing, validation, and release
• Develop and enforce structured testing and software release processes
• Define test cases, performance benchmarks, and failure criteria
• Implement revision control for software releases to support field reliability
• Promote accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement
Principal Electrical Controls Engineer (Systems Integration Projects) Qualifications
• 5+ years of systems engineering and/or systems integration experience required
• Experience serving as a technical or project lead, setting priorities, coordinating resources, and driving technical projects to completion required
• Experience integrating software and hardware projects required
• Prior hands-on coding or software/firmware development experience required