Design Automation Engineer

Hiwin Corporation•Huntley, IL

About The Position

The Design Automation Engineer is responsible for using Driveworks, Solidworks and PDM to automate the configurations of all Hiwin products. Responsibilities also include the integration of product configurations with other Hiwin business systems, including but not limited to ERP, CRM and e-commerce.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering required, with software elective concentration or Computer Science minor
Strong knowledge of Solidworks for mechanical engineering and design
Experience with creating models and drawings with precision tolerances
Experience and understanding of product configurators. Familiarity with Driveworks a plus
Understanding of design automation and ERP tools, and the integration of these tools in a manufacturing environment
Software experience with SQL databases, Excel macro programming, and coding with Python and Javascript
Experience with version control and change management tools (e.g. Github, Solidworks PDM)

Nice To Haves

Prior experience with Solidworks
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
Self-starter with ability to multitask, meet deadlines, and properly prioritize activities
Familiar with office automation tools: MS Office, MS Project, ERP, CRM, e-commerce
Ability to create and understand sql joins, keys and other DDL and DML commands.
Willingness to travel occasionally to Driveworks user group meetings and technical training classes
Understanding of how the front end of a website is built using HTML, CSS and Javascript
Strong desire for organization, process optimization and efficiency
Capable of solving complex problems, sharing knowledge, and documenting work

Responsibilities

Collaborate with internal Hiwin engineering team and management, and external consultants as appropriate, to implement the master plan for automating the design configurations of all Hiwin products
Using Driveworks, develop product configurators following the user interface standard for the Hiwin configurator with a consistent, modern user experience (UX) across different product families. Headless Design methodology to enable aligning Configurator front end with other platforms (e.g. e-commerce)
Create and implement, for each product family, the rules-based configurator for that family, covering all needed configurations, appropriate help popups, and other features needed to make configurations
Troubleshoot configuration failures and bugs in a timely manner
Working with the Design Automation Project Leader, support the justification of Solidworks or Driveworks add-on modules that are needed to enable efficient business operations, marketing activities, and streamlined engineering and/or manufacturing workflow for product configurations
Test and debug all product configurators prior to release. Validate correct results, including transfer of any data to/from connected Hiwin business systems. Design, develop and maintain SQL databases used to store product data for the design tools of Hiwin.
Collaborate closely with other Hiwin departments and outside consultants on integration of the configurator with other business systems, including ERP, CRM, and e-commerce. Understand business requirements and accordingly develop configuration specifications
Work with the Hiwin sizing tools, engineering and software teams to develop data transfer tables to connect sizing tools to the appropriate product configurators
Create necessary documentation of programming guides, data transfer maps, etc. for reference use by other developers and team members on Confluence, draw.io etc
Keep abreast of needed software updates, add new Hiwin products as needed, recommend enhancements and new features as they are released, etc. Support version control and change management
Use tools such as Grafana to incorporate observability into developed configurators and other tools. Use MELT methodology (Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces).