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Barrett is accepting applications for 2 engineering positions: one for a power-electronics development engineer and the other for a controls engineer.

Barrett Technology is a great place to work and develop professionally. The supportive, learning atmosphere is led by seasoned management and competent engineers. We promote from within, investing in our people. As a result Barrett has a low employee turnover, and so this opportunity to join Barrett is rare.

If you are responding to one of these two positions, please follow the instructions at the end of this announcement.

Power-electronics development engineer

Barrett seeks a circuit designer with a solid understanding of electro-magnetic fields who is comfortable developing multilayered boards with mixed (power-and-signal) electronics and familiar with the important effects that come with high-frequency, high-power switching. Understanding of brushless-motor driver designs, space-vector commutation, and DC-DC conversion methods will be helpful. Barrett has developed one of the most advanced brushless-motor servoelectronics modules in the world, with its ultraminiature, ultraefficient “Puck,” and we are continuing to push the limits with funding from the National Science Foundation. The successful candidate will be working directly on future Puck advancements with the guidance of professors from MIT and Olin College who are experts in brushless-motor and power electronics. In addition to taking the Puck to the next level, the successful candidate will be responsible for electronic designs and layouts for all Barrett products. Other duties will include managing suppliers, contract manufacturers, technicians, and interns; firmware development (assy and C); debugging/troubleshooting; and customer communications.

In addition to engineering skills, clear written communication skills are essential for all engineering positions at Barrett, not just for preparing clear engineering documentation and communicating with customers, but also in the preparation of persuasive and innovative funding proposals.

Please see General Requirements for further information about the position.

Controls engineer

Barrett seeks an engineer familiar with nonlinear control theory and its application in (C and C++) code as applied to serial-link robots. Barrett’s WAM arm is unique among robots because its joints have low backdriven inertias and because the kinematics are redundant. This combination gives the WAM arm unprecedented force/impedance control capability that leverages the power of Jacobian-Transpose computed-torque techniques. The successful candidate will be hired to improve these methods to benefit Barrett’s customers. One active project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is aimed at intuitively generating complex haptic surfaces to aid manufacturing activities. The controls-engineer position will include improving the code across all of Barrett’s products, some of which are under development, and exploiting Barrett’s advanced “Puck” servoelectronics module.

In adddition to engineering skills, clear written communication skills are essential for all engineering positions at Barrett, not just for code and user documentation, but also in the preparation of persuasive and innovative funding proposals.

Please see General Requirements for further information about the position.

General Requirements

A BS degree is Barrett’s minimum education level for candidate engineers and there is no minimum level of experience, although experience is valued. Personality and integrity are important at Barrett. The type of person who will do well at Barrett is a team player, clear communicator, personable, honest, open to feedback and learning new skills, finishes tasks, and understands that documentation is an essential component of most tasks.

Instructions

Send your application by emai to:

powerelectronicspost08@barrett.com
controlspost08@barrett.com

by regular mail to:

Michele Karmazin
Barrett Technology Inc.
625 Mt. Auburn St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

With your application, please include:

a cover letter of introduction,
a resume/CV,
a formal sample of your writing,
two or more references describing the relationship of each to the candidate,
your minimum starting-salary requirement (Barrett’s benefits are fairly typical, including covering most of the cost of health insurance), and
your citizenship and visa status (if not a US citizen).

Selection Process

Barrett wishes to fill these positions over the next two months. The factors that will be considered initially will include the quality of past experience, quality of education, quality of written communication (in the cover letter and writing sample), and a salary requirement that is consistent with these. For promising candidates, Barrett will interview references by phone and suggest a phone or face-to-face interview with the candidate.For qualified candidates, the final decision will be decided by the fit between the candidate and Barrett’s team culture as outlined under General Requirements.