Staff Electrical Engineer

Staff Electrical Engineer

Work Mode: Hybrid

Location: Onsite 4 days – Kohler, WI

Opportunity

Are you an engineer looking to accelerate your career with a world‑class, privately held company?

Do you thrive on innovation and enjoy working on breakthrough products and transformative technologies?

We are seeking a visionary engineer with a passion for developing category‑defining solutions. As a Staff Engineer, Transformative Innovation, you will play a critical role in identifying, evaluating, and developing next‑generation products and technologies that will reshape the Kitchen & Bath industry. This is your opportunity to influence the future—and build what comes next.

Specific Responsibilities

• Support Transformative Innovation projects from concept through completion, engineering highly innovative products.
• Collaborate closely with Marketing, Industrial Design, and cross‑functional teams to develop new technologies and solutions that meet customer needs.
• Own electronics and firmware development for first‑to‑market consumer products, including requirements definition, design, implementation, integration, compliance testing, and deployment—primarily focused on control systems, sensing, and user interfaces.
• Assess technical feasibility of new products and technologies; create requirements, risk mitigation strategies, test plans, schedule estimates, and cost analyses.
• Partner with Kohler legal teams to identify, evaluate, generate, and protect intellectual property.
• Conduct competitive benchmarking and stay informed on industry and technology trends.
• Communicate technical recommendations clearly and concisely, providing well‑reasoned guidance to stakeholders.
  

Skills/Requirements

Required

•  Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of industry experience in new product development.
• Strong cross‑functional collaboration skills.
• Solid understanding of analog and digital electronics.
• Proven experience delivering hardware and firmware for consumer products.
• Expertise in real‑time embedded firmware for microcontroller platforms (e.g., ARM).
• Proficiency in schematic capture and PCB layout (Altium, ORCad, or similar).
• Strong skills in embedded C, object‑oriented design, and bare‑metal development.
• Deep understanding of EMC and PCB design rules for compliance (CE, FCC, UL).
• Experience with design validation techniques (FMEA, DFMEA, DFM).

Preferred

• Experience with failure analysis of consumer products.
• Strong knowledge of power electronics and signal processing.
• Experience designing products with BLE, Wi‑Fi, MQTT, or Matter.
• Familiarity with Zephyr or comparable RTOS ecosystems.
• Exposure to machine learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.).

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We will consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this opportunity.

We believe in supporting you from the moment you join us, which is why Kohler offers day 1 benefits. This means you’ll have access to your applicable benefit programs from your first day on the job, with no waiting period. The salary range for this position is $101,350 - $156,150. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s experience, their education, and the work location. In addition, this position is eligible for a performance bonus/variable incentive compensation.

Why Choose Kohler?
We empower each associate to #BecomeMoreAtKohler with a competitive total rewards package to support your health and wellbeing, access to career growth and development opportunities, a diverse and inclusive workplace, and a strong culture of innovation. With more than 30,000 bold leaders across the globe, we’re driving meaningful change in our mission to help people live gracious, healthy, and sustainable lives.

About Us
It is Kohler’s policy to recruit, hire, and promote qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran. If, as an individual with a disability, you need reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact kohlerjobs@kohler.com.  Kohler Co. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.