Senior Principal Engineer Job Description
Senior principal engineer
provides electrical engineering, hardware design, systems integration, PLC programming, motion programming, HMI configuration, component specification, project management, and start-up and commissioning of capital project.
Senior Principal Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Responsibilities extend to all regional Americas facilities and support of facilities outside the Americas upon request, the network of contract manufacturing organizations
Work independently and directly interface with personnel from multiple departments including Product development, Project Management, Manufacturing, Engineering, Facilities, and QA/QC
Support corrective actions including investigating and resolving deviations related to validation
Applies extensive technical expertise and has an understanding of the basic principals of other related disciplines
Largely self-directed work is expected to result in the development of new or improved techniques, procedures and standards
Represents the organization as the prime technical contact in the bid/evaluation processes including preparation of bid documents, completion of technical evaluations for proposals and providing recommendations for selection
May assign tasks to and/or direct engineers, technicians, craft personnel and other support staff including coordination and review of work assignments
Debug and bring up new systems
Share information and help co-workers
Managing project teams of civil engineers and contribute to the professional development of junior colleagues
Senior Principal Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Principal Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CCNP, ITIL, CCNA, IAT, AWS, CCDP, CCDA, CISSP, CE, II
Education for Senior Principal Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior principal engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Science, Computer Science, Technical, Electrical Engineering, Technology, Mathematics, Education, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Skills for Senior Principal Engineer
Desired skills for senior principal engineer include:
Build and Release
Databases
Programming languages
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery principles
Design of mechanical and electrical ICBM subsystems
Operating systems
FAR & DFAR requirements
Its ecosystems
Network
Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
Desired experience for senior principal engineer includes:
Minimum of four years of experience in computer program requirements definition
Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related degree required
Requires Bachelor’s degree (in Computer Science, Math, Electrical Engineering or related field) or equivalent, and ten to twelve years of related experience
CISSP or Security+CE
Shall have seven (7) years experience developing, delivering, testing and supporting integrated hardware and software systems using recognized industry recognized process management
Senior Principal Engineer Examples
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Senior Principal Engineer Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a senior principal engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior principal engineer
- Receives assignments in broadly stated engineering problems or objectives
- Often acts independently to uncover and resolve issues associated with the development and manufacturing of programs
- Assignments are broad and may include the development of new techniques as a result of independent research and study
- Reviews and coordinates the work of assistants or project team members
- Actively collaborate - plan and deliver trainings on new products and technologies to sales, distribution partners and Independent Design House
- Plan, budget and manage labs, external services
- Be involved in resource planning, hiring, training, competence development and career planning for the Field Applications team in AP
- Plan, organize, execute and monitor all aspects of projects to achieve commitments for delivery, performance, and financial requirements
- Lead technical discussions with customers to ensure requirements are met and customer is satisfied
- Design and conduct test programs that support project initiatives
Qualifications for senior principal engineer
- Requires at least 2 years experiencing as a team lead
- CCIE in Routing / Switching or equivalent required (CISCO Certified Internetworking Expert)
- CISSP or equivalent required, desired
- Must be a recognized expert in his/her field with a strong publication history
- Established client relationships and a thriving consulting business is highly desirable, individuals with strong potential for business development through institutional support and resources will be considered
- Must be able to attract projects and continuously expand his/her business volume to support full-time staff and have the skills needed to manage, develop, and promote a group of highly motivated professionals
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior principal engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior principal engineer
- Knowledge of contract preparation and procurement
- Provides technical direction to team members and managers
- Participate in daily monitoring and maintenance
- Act independently with minimal supervision to independently execute assigned portions of large projects
- Leading the mechanical design element on large, complex and multi-disciplinary projects
- Working with and mentoring junior process and mechanical engineers, you will prepare concept, preliminary and detailed design documentation for water, wastewater and recycled water treatment plants
- Participate in design discussions, build prototypes and contribute to deliver high quality products/features
- Influence the overall vision and direction of the product and provide valuable technical inputs
- Work collaboratively in a group of passionate developers in a high energy, fast paced, and outcome oriented environment
- Anticipate problems and future technical needs and takes necessary corrective steps to ensure they are addressed
Qualifications for senior principal engineer
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Physics
- Minimum of 15 years of experience with a proven track record of successful design of complex mechanical devices within a regulated product development environment is required
- Ability to manage and/or mentor technicians and Jr
- Familiar with both domestic and international GMP regulations impacting validation requirements
- Familiar with current industry guidance documents impacting validation best practices
- Experience with regulatory inspection
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior principal engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior principal engineer
- Creating devious tests that uncover unexpected problems
- Working with large volumes of data moving between different backend technologies to support both a data warehouse and near real-time reporting
- Building a multi-tenant high-volume web application responsible for sensitive student data supporting both desktop and mobile devices and can articulate your experience in this context
- Drawing an architecture diagram of the system under test
- Completing work assigned on the agreed task list
- Errors in selection of Instruments
- Inform project lead in due time if milestones not can be kept
- Lead/support the qualification of manufacturing equipment, facility and critical utility systems
- Lead/support validation of cleaning (CIP and manual), shipping, and sterilization (steam and dry heat) processes
- Supervise and provides guidance to junior full time employees and contracted personnel performing validation activities
Qualifications for senior principal engineer
- Strong understanding of quality risk management principles, including best practice in risk based C&Q approach
- Expert Microsoft Word / PowerPoint and Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills are required
- Effective communication skills - both horizontally and vertically
- Traveling to collaborate with QA team(s) in India
- Must be proficient in C/C++ Unix development, possess a thorough knowledge of numerical methods for transistor-level circuit simulation, and understand the custom IC design and verification practices
- BS/MS in CS or EE with 7 years of relevant experience in software development
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Our company is looking for a senior principal engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior principal engineer
- Assesses and advises on matters such as the security posture, enterprise governance, and policies on security, operating, and extending the network
- Leads an engineering team that provides engineering support as it relates to network activities via the Service Design, Transition, and Continual Service Improvement (CSI) phases of the Service Management Lifecycle
- Provides security and compliance recommendations for network policies and procedures
- Advises on enterprise-designated network standards for design, installation, maintenance, and retrofit of WAN/LAN infrastructures
- Participates in and may lead aspects of major network installations, upgrades, and projects
- Manage the development and execution of FATs, SATs, DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ and other relevant validation life cycle documents, such as commissioning plans and test scripts, commission summary reports
- Manage/support the development of master plans, validation plans, SOPs, system impact assessments, criticality assessments, risk assessment and validation protocols for new facility/equipment, new functionality/process, process/equipment changes and modifications, and periodic requalification/revalidation
- Support development of overall validation strategy, programs and policies, Master Plans, and SOPs pertaining to governance of validation lifecycle
- Collaborate with multiple departments including Product development, Manufacturing, Engineering, Facilities, and QA/QC to complete validation related assignments
- Support corrective actions including investigating and resolving deviations as relevant to validation
Qualifications for senior principal engineer
- Requires Bachelor’s degree (in Computer Science, Engineering, Economics or Math) or equivalent, and ten to twelve years of related (telecommunication analysis) experience
- A degree of financial awareness and the ability to develop this skill further is required
- Able to manage own workload and assist more junior members of the team
- Twelve (12) + years’ experience in Antenna Theory, Microwave/RF Engineering and antenna product development
- Minimum of 1+ years’ of experience in Microwave Antenna Design including Phased Arrays, Multi-element apertures, linear, dual linear, and circular polarized antennas, horns, printed circuit spirals, coaxial and strip line antenna radiators
- Minimum of 1+ years’ of design experience in designing both balanced and unbalanced antenna feeds
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Our company is hiring for a senior principal engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior principal engineer
- Ownership of design changes and expansion of existing Media Systems
- Project Management and design of new systems
- Remote and on-site Tier III support of content distribution production systems located in Washington, NY and Atlanta
- Vendor Management including Equipment suppliers and integrators
- Active Project team participation with other Media Systems group members
- Supervise production and maintenance of project documentation and procedures
- Arrange for Training for Operations and Maintenance groups
- Design services and libraries to provide on-demand, self service access to storage * Develop abstractions and automation on top of traditional block storage arrays
- Maintaining automated test suites using CI/CD tools * Participating in collaborative projects with small software engineering teams
- Develop tools to monitor consumption and usage patterns to drive automated decisions * Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, performance analysis activities
Qualifications for senior principal engineer
- Minimum of 1+ years’ of experience in electromagnetic simulation tool ANSYS HFSS
- Minimum of 1+ years’ of experience in MATLAB analysis and basic programming
- Minimum of 1+ years’ of experience in Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint
- You would ideally be a Chartered Engineer with extensive experience in the Building Services consultancy industry
- 10+ years’ experience in Information Technology with specific emphasis on Applications Development
- Must have woking knowledge of WiFi protocol and embedded applications using WiFi technology