Engineer Product I

Location: Urbandale IA (onsite)

18 months contract

What Youll Do
Provide Software Engineering Test and Verification of John Deeres line of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers.
Work with Software and System Engineering to define test setup and standardize test plans
Participate in periodic bug review meetings to ensure software development and product team understand software issues clearly.
Provide daily assistance and guidance to team on scheduled tasks/bugs which may involve working with nontechnical team members to understand customer faced issues.
Diagnose and perform 1st level root cause analysis on software bugs.
Perform product verification and validation activities in lab environment and on various Ag vehicles via manual and automated test setups.
Frequent travel to the Test Farm 80% of time performing field test cases for Receiver validation
Working with major agricultural machinery in an experimental field test environment.
Working independently and as a team with engineers to test GNSS Receiver product

Need someone with strong communication skills. Someone who is selfmotivated. Targeting someone with a software engineering background rather than mechanical engineering oriented who is interested in doing field software test work to verify product and system level performance. Able to retain information and apply it. Someone with knowledge of John Deere equipment and precision products

Ideally the candidate will have:
Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Agricultural Systems Technology or Agriculture Engineering related field.
Experience with precision agriculture product and equipment operation experience
Experience with test plan creation and execution
Experience with software development life cycle and reporting/tracking software defects
Demonstrated effective analytical reporting & presentation skills.

A strong candidate will also have:
Strong knowledge of Precision Agriculture equipment.
Experience using John Deere or other Agricultural equipment
Experience with GNSS Receiver testing.
Experience with validation and/or verification testing of system requirements and regressionlevel testing.
Demonstrated experience with CAN communication.
Experience with troubleshooting Hardware related issues.
Experience with software tools such as Microsoft Project Team Foundation Server (TFS) or Rally