Vention helps some of the most innovative manufacturing companies automate their production floor in just a few days. Vention's online-first manufacturing automation platform (MAP) enables its clients to design, automate, order, and deploy manufacturing equipment directly from their web browser.

Vention is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with offices in Berlin and Boston, and is used in over 3,000 factories on 5 continents. In May 2022, with 300 employees (and growing), Vention announced the closing of US$95M in Series C financing, which will be used to grow Vention's go-to-market strategy, expand the company's global distribution footprint, and accelerate the development of its hardware and software platform.

As an Electrical Engineer at Vention you will be responsible for both the prototyping of new products and the maintenance and development of our existing automation solutions. In this role, your responsibilities will range from creating schematic designs, the development of prototypes, and generating documentation for Ventions automation components, supporting production requests as well as RMA support.

Reporting to the VP of Automation as part of the automation team your goal will be to help support the growth of Vention’s Automation platform. More specifically you will:

• Design, implement and document electrical circuits and systems for Vention’s automation products

• Support production change orders related to Automation components (update BOMs, drawings, manufacturing instructions, etc…)

• Work with Vention's global supplier and manufacturer base to source components and setup component manufacturing contracts

• Work with OEM partners to integrate key components from their portfolio inside Vention’s modular automation library

• Fluent in both French and English

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

• 3 - 5 years of electronics design in a product development environment

• Track record of product development, interfacing with various functions under tight deadlines

• Posses pertinent knowledge and experience in the following fields:

• Software & Firmware:

  • Embedded system deployment on Linux platforms

  • Javascript, Python, C, C++

  • STM32 microcontrollers, ARM-Cortex microcontrollers

• Electronics & Electrical:

  •  Electronics design

    •  Schematic & PCB design, component selection, BOM generation, prototype testing and debugging

  • familiar with electrical design software such as Cadence Orcad, Altium Designer, Eagle

  • Mechatronics and motion controls

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