Job Title:  R&D Lead Software Engineer (Barcelona)

About OMRON

Omron Corporation is a leading industrial automation company that leverages its core sensing & control technologies to expand into businesses, such as control components, electronic components, automotive electronic components, social infrastructure, healthcare, and the environment.

Omron was established in 1933, and has around 39,000 global employees, offering products and services in over 110 nations and regions. In the industrial automation business, Omron is contributing to making an affluent society by offering automation technologies which drive innovation in manufacturing as well as products and customer support.

About Our Team

We are a R&D software team located in Barcelona (Spain) collaborating with other European and Global locations. Our mission is to Research and Develop Mechatronics Software tools to provide easy and fast automation solutions to Omron Drives users

About Your Role

We are looking for a R&D Lead Engineer to take the responsibility of the design and development of a software platform built on different technologies.

You see the “big picture” and create approaches for software design and implementation to guide the development team. You have a strong technical background and excellent development skills and the ability to develop a unified vision for software characteristics and functions. The goal is to provide a framework to evolve a software platform being used to create industrial automation applications. If you feel appealed by terms such as Motion, Servo, Inverter, Mechatronics, Engineering Software, Virtual Commissioning, Digital Twin, Predictive Maintenance and Production Efficiency improvement, this role will give you the opportunity to participate in the future of the digital manufacturing.

Leads design teams and actively contributes to balancing the project goals of specs, quality and time. Solves complex problems in his expert field and leads others in problem solving.

Leads the development of technical abilities to work ‘state of the art’ in his domain (skills, infrastructure, relationships, knowledge of developments in market and technology), in interaction with other domains.

Key Responsibilities/activities

Responsible for design, verification and timely release of complex innovative products at Omron quality standards. Leads a project team of specialized engineers, in interaction with other domains.

Contributes to the project goal definition and product architecture, makes the project plan, and negotiates the conditions with relevant stakeholders, resulting in a feasible plan for a desired project.

Takes ownership for realization of the project goals and leads the multidisciplinary project team in executing the plan and planning and solving (all) problems. Reports progress and communicates bottlenecks that cannot be handled in the project team.

Is solving problems as an expert in his domain, also outside his primary project.

Is responsible for maintaining and improving the technical functional strategy, in his domain with the goal to stay ‘state-of-the-art’. This includes an action plan and clear advice to management for skill development (necessary investments in tools, equipment, training, specialization and partnerships).

Practices the framework of all Omron (quality) processes effectively, based on thorough understanding of their background. If improvement is possible or deviation of standard processes is necessary, he paves the way for acceptance, by explaining and motivation of improvements and find support at decisionmakers.

About OMRON

Omron Corporation is a leading industrial automation company that leverages its core sensing & control technologies to expand into businesses, such as control components, electronic components, automotive electronic components, social infrastructure, healthcare, and the environment.

Omron was established in 1933, and has around 39,000 global employees, offering products and services in over 110 nations and regions. In the industrial automation business, Omron is contributing to making an affluent society by offering automation technologies which drive innovation in manufacturing as well as products and customer support.

About Our Team

We are a R&D software team located in Barcelona (Spain) collaborating with other European and Global locations. Our mission is to Research and Develop Mechatronics Software tools to provide easy and fast automation solutions to Omron Drives users

About Your Role

We are looking for a R&D Lead Engineer to take the responsibility of the design and development of a software platform built on different technologies.

You see the “big picture” and create approaches for software design and implementation to guide the development team. You have a strong technical background and excellent development skills and the ability to develop a unified vision for software characteristics and functions. The goal is to provide a framework to evolve a software platform being used to create industrial automation applications. If you feel appealed by terms such as Motion, Servo, Inverter, Mechatronics, Engineering Software, Virtual Commissioning, Digital Twin, Predictive Maintenance and Production Efficiency improvement, this role will give you the opportunity to participate in the future of the digital manufacturing.

Leads design teams and actively contributes to balancing the project goals of specs, quality and time. Solves complex problems in his expert field and leads others in problem solving.

Leads the development of technical abilities to work ‘state of the art’ in his domain (skills, infrastructure, relationships, knowledge of developments in market and technology), in interaction with other domains.

Key Responsibilities/activities

Responsible for design, verification and timely release of complex innovative products at Omron quality standards. Leads a project team of specialized engineers, in interaction with other domains.

Contributes to the project goal definition and product architecture, makes the project plan, and negotiates the conditions with relevant stakeholders, resulting in a feasible plan for a desired project.

Takes ownership for realization of the project goals and leads the multidisciplinary project team in executing the plan and planning and solving (all) problems. Reports progress and communicates bottlenecks that cannot be handled in the project team.

Is solving problems as an expert in his domain, also outside his primary project.

Is responsible for maintaining and improving the technical functional strategy, in his domain with the goal to stay ‘state-of-the-art’. This includes an action plan and clear advice to management for skill development (necessary investments in tools, equipment, training, specialization and partnerships).

Practices the framework of all Omron (quality) processes effectively, based on thorough understanding of their background. If improvement is possible or deviation of standard processes is necessary, he paves the way for acceptance, by explaining and motivation of improvements and find support at decisionmakers.