RF Product Engineer

RF Product Engineer

The Opportunity:

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) seeks a professional, innovative and detailed individual for our RF Product Engineer position. If you are looking for an opportunity to be part of a dynamic team in an innovative environment, then this position is for you!

Located in Lake Zurich, Illinois, SEL’s Fault Indicator and Sensor Division provides a positive, professional environment where you can make a difference in how the industry views SEL products and solutions. The company’s proximity to Chicago will allow you to enjoy all that the city has to offer, but its quieter, suburban location is ideal for those looking for a more relaxed place to live and work.

RF Product Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of specific product line(s), product applications, competition, and markets. Analyze competitor products and prepare technical product comparison reports.
  
• Serve as primary technical contact to sales, marketing, operations, and others as required for in-service product support.
  
• Conduct life cycle planning for product line(s) and specific products, including enhancements and obsolescence, with minimal supervision. Manage parts, upgrades, conversions, and accessories for respective products.
  
• Participate in specifying product requirements, working closely with Sales, Marketing & R&D to ensure product features and functionality meet the customer/market needs.
  
• Work with Product Engineering and Marketing to prioritize development activities to meet customer needs while accomplishing objectives.
  
• Provide technical content for data sheets, guide form specifications, flyers, service bulletins, application notes, application guides, and white papers to marketing.
  
• Participate in industry technical meetings and conferences. Prepare and present technical product presentations.
  
• Follow and improve area processes

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering
  
• Minimum 2 – 5 years working knowledge of RF network
  
• Experience working products with integrated RF technology
  
• Excellent technical and marketing presentation and writing skills
  
• Knowledge of product life cycle planning and market positioning
  
• Willing to travel up to 25%
  
• Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
  
• Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment
  
• Background check results satisfactory to SEL
  
• Negative drug test result(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with RF networks related to electric power industry and industrial markets
  
• Experience with electric utility sensors and telecommunications
  
• M.S. Electrical Engineering
  
• Minimum 2 years technical marketing experience

An Award Winning Company

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has a reputation for quality, reliability, integrity, and service, which has enabled us to expand both within the electric utility market and into industrial, international, and OEM markets.

In an independent survey conducted by Newton-Evans Research Company, SEL ranks first in seven performance categories including technology, features, security against hackers, web/internet information ability, technical service and support, price, and relay setting PC software. SEL provides an excellent work environment and is the recipient of numerous awards, including one of the “100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington State” (Puget Sound Business Journal, 1999 – 2003, 2010, and 2011), Association of Washington Businesses Manufacturing, Workplace, and Community Service awards (1998-2010), and the Washington State Quality Achievement Award (WSQA).

Apply Your Talent. Make a Difference. Enjoy the Rewards.

Are you ready to be part of a highly motivated and well-equipped team? Are you a quick learner who likes new challenges? If so, then you are ready to join us at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories.

Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III delivered the first commercial digital protective relay in 1984. Under his technical, managerial, and fiscal leadership, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has expanded to over 2700 employees. Ed understands and supports the need for investing in employees. In return, he expects that we hire only the best, most highly motivated team members, and that we deliver simple, reliable, and cost-effective products and solutions.


Our products and solutions must be simple and reliable because they protect the largest, most complicated machine on earth: the electric power grid. Blackouts in the U.S. and Canada remind us that reliable electric power is crucial to our society. SEL provides systems, services, and products for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, and metering of utility and industrial electric systems worldwide.


Our company and our products exist to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. That purpose has made SEL very successful, and the company is managed with sound fiscal judgment and that purpose in mind. Profits are reinvested to fuel the company’s growth.


In addition to offering a variety of challenges in a supportive, stable environment, SEL shares its success with employees by giving them stock in the company. All employees earn stock at the same rate. And because only employees can own SEL stock, the stock price is not subject to market volatility. Even when the stock market value has plunged, SEL stock consistently increased in value.


Employee Testimonial Video: SEL employees describe the opportunity and rewards of a career working at a 100% employee owned company!


Benefits: SEL has an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, and vision for all regular full-time employees and their entire family; long-term disability and life insurance; education assistance programs; a very generous employee stock ownership plan; 401K; flexible benefit account; and an outstanding work environment.

If your qualifications and experience match any of our current openings, please submit your resume for that position so that you may be considered immediately.


SEL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.