Johnson Outdoors Inc Hiring for R&D Sonar Transducer Engineer Lead – Fishing at Eufaula, AL  Full Time

R&D Sonar Transducer Engineer Lead

Join the Johnson Outdoors team and deliver exceptional outdoor brands that transform the consumers’ fishing experience!

At Johnson Outdoors, home to some of the world’s most innovative and best-known outdoor recreation brands, we create amazing outdoor experiences – for adventurers, by adventurers. We want people to get out and experience the great outdoors, and we create awesome equipment to make sure people have the best experience possible when fishing.

Check us out on Cannon, Minn Kota, and Humminbird, or find us on Instagram and Facebook!

About the Role:

Provides technical leadership in the research and development activities required to investigate, invent, and incorporate new sonar technologies into marine consumer electronics products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identifies and investigates innovative and complex sonar product designs and concepts for low-cost implementation.
• Performs competitive product evaluations including tracking the latest military, commercial and competitive sonar technologies and reviewing competitor products to determine our product’s competitiveness and project viability. Tracks the latest sonar signal processing published papers, concepts, and intellectual properties.
• Partners with the software team in sonar algorithm development, integration and testing phase.
• Partners with engineering on the development/design stages, prototypes, sonar system level specification, hardware and software integration and testing.
• Partners with engineering on piezoelectric element selection, characterization, cutting and testing; transducer construction, hydrodynamic analysis, housing materials, pressure relief materials, adhesives, transducer potting, testing, design verification and design reviews.
• Collaborates with marketing to identity and understand customer needs, brainstorm product concepts, propose new product conceptual designs and perform proof of concept demonstrations.
• Initiates and oversees corporate and university research experimentation projects by partnering on best practices, reaching out to solicit information and obtaining state of the art/cutting edge technology.
• Responsible for patent research and writing.
• Serves as a mentor to lower-level engineers and technical staff by providing guidance and technical expertise on product development and project management. Additionally, provides technical guidance/expertise to peers.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What you will need to succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or a master’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, computer engineering with an emphasis in acoustics or equivalent.
• Typically requires a minimum of 10 of professional experience in applicable sonar research and development.
• Advanced knowledge and practical experience with the design and operation of single beam and multi-beam sonar systems.
• Advanced knowledge and practical experience with the operational characteristics of hard and soft PZT electro-ceramic materials.
• Advanced knowledge of electrical design and test of sonar transmitters and low noise receivers.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in the specification, design implementation, and test of sonar transducer projectors, hydrophones, and multi-element arrays.
• Advanced sonar test experience with transducer polar patterns, free field voltage sensitivities, transmit voltage response, and transducer comparison and self-reciprocity calibration.
• Advanced knowledge of sound propagation, multipath, square law spreading, reflection loss, and absorption loss in water.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in the development and commercialization of Phased Array Multibeam Sonar.
• Advanced embedded analog and digital signal processing fundamentals and techniques.
• Advanced experience with software simulations environments such as MATLAB (Matrix Laboratory).
• Experience working with general purpose test equipment and troubleshooting procedures.
• Experience with proper printed circuit analog and digital design techniques.
• Expertise in managing projects from concept development to implementation and evaluation. Demonstrated leadership skills and abilities to effectively provide direction, guidance and motivation to development team engineers and other internal teams to produce quality designs on schedule.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) or similar products.

A few pointers about our culture:

• Entrepreneurial spirit and innovation are in our bones! We authentically innovate trusted equipment that gets people out there.
• We are laser-focused on our consumers, and passionate about inspiring people to actively engage with the amazing awe of the outdoors again and again.
• We strive to create meaningful, healthy change in the world as individuals and as a family of brands.
• We value diversity and team members who are willing to wear multiple hats; who take personal initiative, anticipating what needs to be done, and figuring things out to make them happen; but who are also willing to ask for help, to assist others and work together.

What you will receive:

• Share in the company’s success – Competitive base salary, with additional earning potential through participation in the annual discretionary cash profit sharing program, eligibility for annual pay increases, and employee stock purchase plans.
• Find your work/life balance with generous paid time off and holiday benefits, health insurance and wellness plans.
• Further your career with training opportunities including our tuition assistance program.
• Plan for your future with our 401k with company match and deferred retirement contributions, Sons & Daughters Scholarship program, life and LTD insurance, employee stock purchase plan, and more.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at Johnson Outdoors (and all subsidiaries) without regard to race; creed; color; religion; national origin; sex; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or any other status protected by law. Johnson Outdoors is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please contact Human Resources at [email protected] to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

About Us:

JOHNSON OUTDOORS is a leading global innovator of outdoor recreation equipment and technologies that inspire more people to experience the awe of the great outdoors. The company designs, manufactures and markets a portfolio of winning, consumer-preferred brands across four categories: Watercraft Recreation, Fishing, Diving and Camping. Johnson Outdoors’ iconic brands include: Old Town canoes and kayaks; Ocean Kayak; Carlisle paddles; Minn Kota fishing motors, batteries and anchors; Cannon downriggers; Humminbird marine electronics and charts; SCUBAPRO dive equipment; Jetboil outdoor cooking systems; and Eureka!camping and hiking equipment. Founded in 1970 by Samuel C. Johnson, the Company has delivered double-digit compound annual growth over its history, evolving from a single brand into a nearly $743 million global enterprise with around 1,200 employees across 20 countries.

Bachelors of Electrical Engineering (preferred)