Manager of Software Engineering - Motion - Yaskawa America

The Software Manager manages the development of software tools used to create motion applications and sustains business growth through introduction / improvement of software tools, ensuring quality and continual improvement.

The Manager of Software Engineering is based in our Waukegan, IL Headquarters office, 4 days a week in office and is responsible for:

• Managing a group of software developers to create software source code in C# and other languages in the Microsoft Visual Studio environment;
• Estimating development effort and responding to development requests from the marketing and sales departments.
• Defining the development processes and procedures including unit testing and source control;
• Source code architecture, design rules, and quality

Description of Duties and Responsibilities:

• Mentor direct reports in the design of the software architecture.
• Set goals and write performance reviews for direct reports.
• Establish training plans for direct reports to further their software development skills.
• Oversee development activities to ensure that established procedures are being followed.
• Estimate development effort and time to completion.
• Set overall development goals.
• Lead the development of software to run on the next generation of motion controller.
• Create software design documents.
• Implement software designs C# code.
• Debug and test software.
• Tune software for optimum performance

Qualifications:

• Master of Science in Computer Science preferred or equivelent degree in Computer Science.
• 8+ years of work-related experience in Software Development.
• Expert in software development processes.
• Expert in C#, .NET WPF, MVVM, Visual Studio, and object oriented design skills.
• Expert in software testing, including unit testing frameworks.
• Expert in the use of source control tools, such as Git and ALM, in a team environment.
• Expert in the user of Azure DevOps.
• Expert in web technologies.
• Expert in software installation and deployment.
• Expert in multi-threaded constructs such as semaphores, IPC, and message queues.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills
• Familiarity with industrial applications in motion control.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively mentor other developers.
• Onsite, 4 Days a week.

Some key advantages to working at Yaskawa include: a global environment with interactions to numerous cultures, career opportunities in diverse areas, a highly competitive benefit package, including a generous 401(K) plan, profit sharing, corporate wide bonus plan, educational assistance programs offering a generous reimbursement for graduate courses and monetary rewards through Associate Recognition Programs.