Software Engineer

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Position Overview:  

Brunswick’s Boating Intelligence Design Lab (BI-DesignLab), a member of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Research Park, is seeking a Software Engineer. The Software Engineer will be the primary owner of back-end development for the Lab. This will include building POC style projects that will showcase applications of technologies for the recreational marine market. 

The Software Engineer is responsible for building and supporting cloud applications, assisting with software architecture level decisions, determining appropriate tech-stack in conjunction with the Brunswick IT services, developing and maintaining relationships with external vendors of interest, and other tasks. The BI-DesignLab is an innovation space and advanced engineering center for Brunswick Corporation and full-time employees of the Lab should expect a broad range of projects. The nature of an advanced engineering lab requires the ability to work on projects independently, creatively apply domain knowledge, and be flexible with project requirements. 

The Software Engineer will be the primary owner of “server side” solutions at the Lab, the primary near-term projects being heavily invested in deploying AI and ML models on the cloud. Other team members at the Lab are responsible for edge and front-end solutions. The Software Engineer is expected to work closely with other members of the Lab to deliver projects cross-functionally, as well as diligently represent the work at the Lab to the rest of the organization. Brunswick is continuing to invest in AI/ML, and this position will be heavily utilized in those investments for the foreseeable future. Brunswick does not do pure research and development of AI and other technologies, but rather application of existing and well understood technologies. The software engineer should be knowledgeable about available off-the-shelf solutions and how those may be applied to problems, but should also be willing and able to creatively apply knowledge outside of the scope of off-the-shelf solutions. 

As a member of UIUC Research Park, the Lab has the benefit of being able to resource interns from the student body to help work on projects on-site. Full time employees of the Lab are expected to manage and mentor up to five (5) interns who will help execute the varying projects at the Lab. The Software Engineer will be asked to help determine projects that could be executed by interns, identify skills required to execute those projects, develop job descriptions, attract individuals capable of executing those projects, manage the workflow of hired interns, and identify high performers for potential to bring into Brunswick as full-time employees. 

At Brunswick, we have passion for our work and a distinct ability to deliver.   

Essential Functions:

Due to the nature of the Lab, it is difficult to capture all the responsibilities and projects for a full-time engineer accurately. The following list is not exhaustive but alludes to the kinds of workflow that will be expected. 

• Quickly understand problem statements and formulate a variety of possible solutions 

• Although the Software Engineer will own back-end development, employees of the Lab must be pragmatic when approaching problems and ideate a large variety of possible solutions even outside of their own domain 

• Work with the teams that develop and deploy software solutions for the broader public to ensure agreement and commonality in tech stack 

• Write and maintain code specific to active or previously executed projects as well as train cross-divisional engineers in the use of the code where necessary 

• Participate in code reviews for the Lab 

• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality 

• Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring 

• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next steps 

• Partner with design to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints 

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