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RAE Systems is seeking candidates who are able to work in a growing, fast-paced entrepreneurial environment; demonstrate excellent leadership skills; and are committed to providing quality products and services to our customers.
We offer a very competitive compensation and benefits package. Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume to RAE Systems Inc.
RAE Systems, founded in 1991, is a leading global developer and manufacturer of rapidly deployable chemical and radiation detection monitors and multi-sensor networks for industrial applications and homeland security. RAE Systems’ technologically advanced products are based on proprietary technology, and include a full line of portable, wireless and fixed atmospheric monitors and photoionization detectors and gamma and neutron radiation detectors for the detection and early warning of hazardous materials.
RAE Systems currently has the following job openings in our Corporate offices in San Jose:
| • | Global Portable Product Marketing Manager |
RAE Systems currently has the following job openings in our offices in China:
RAE Systems currently has the following job openings in our offices in Europe:
| • | Regional Sales Manager, Middle East Region |
Global Portable Product Marketing Manager
JOB DESCRIPTION
This person will report to Product Marketing Director, be based in San Jose CA, and travel worldwide 30% of the time. The Product Manager will be responsible for the Product Marketing of RAE’s Global Portable Product line as well as increasing the brand penetration into the distribution & sales channel. Responsibilities include: managing product line revenue from launch through obsolescence to maximize customer adoption and market share; delivering market requirements documents; defining, packaging and promoting customer solutions consisting of products and services; maximizing field and channel sales effectiveness through compelling messaging & positioning, worldwide launches, sales tools and training, working with ww RSM’s to identify and sign new distributors. This is an excellent opportunity with a large, growing product line.
Product Leadership tasks and responsibilities
| • | Responsible for the assigned Product Business Plan, and Life cycle to maximize market share & Revenues. | ||
| • | Collect and synthesize inputs from vertical marketing group, Business units, engineering, sales, technology and the market to lead the assigned products and business direction. | ||
| • | Implement DFM (Design For Manufacturing), DFS (Design for Service), DFL (Design for Logistic) approach for assigned products. | ||
| • | Be the Company’s Product Evangelist! | ||
Product positioning tasks and responsibilities
| • | Responsible for TAM, SAM, growth rate, market penetration, SWOT, and competitive analysis. | |
| • | Maintain cognizance of competitive activities, changes in their marketing strategy or tactics, and general trends that could affect product sales. | |
| • | Responsible for proposing RAE’s product strategy in response to competitive changes in the marketplace. |
Pricing tasks and responsibilities
| • | Manage and optimize the long-term competitiveness, market share, and ROI of assigned product line. | |
| • | Monitor product profit margins and work with responsible parties to execute corrective actions as necessary. | |
| • | Work with Manufacturing to develop a cost reduction plan for each product. |
Product Sales Support and Distribution tasks and responsibilities
| • | Assess and recommend optimum distribution channel strategies. | |
| • | Visit customer sites and team with Design Engineers, vertical marketing group, Applications to propose product solutions. | |
| • | Develop the right sales tools by teaming up with vertical marketing group, BU’s, Marketing communications group. |
Product promotion tasks and responsibilities
| • | Contribute to the marketing communications strategy and ensure that appropriate marketing materials are available. | |
| • | Deliver and support product collateral for field sales and applications teams |
QUALIFICATIONS
Education
| • | MS in Electrical or Chemical Engineering preferred or BSEE / BSChemE equivalent combination experience. |
Experience
| • | Must have experience in at least one of the following area: gas detection, wireless systems, networked systems, or instrumentation. | |
| • | 3+ yrs. Related experience in Product marketing, Applications engineering or Field Services Engineering, and/or Product Engineering. | |
| • | Skilled with MS-Office Suite, knowing Salesforce.com is a plus. | |
| • | Project management experience is a plus |
Leadership Skills
| • | Adept at leading and influencing teams towards common goals | |
| • | Excellent skills in verbal, written, and presentation communications. | |
| • | Excellent interpersonal skills | |
| • | Ability to work in a fast paced, changing work environment. | |
| • | Outstanding project management skills | |
| • | Fluent in English, Mandarin is a plus |
Other Requirements
| • | Up to 30% travel with overseas travel and business experience | |
| • | Ability to work within a multicultural business environment | |
| • | Flexibility, adaptability, and collaborative management style |
Director of Manufacturing Engineering
Duties And Responsibilities
| • | Oversee all aspects of manufacturing processes to support the on-time delivery for customer satisfaction, including the operations of manufacturing electronics instruments with surface mounting, component engineering, plastic injection molding, sheet metal, incoming inspection, engineering document control, quality control, product engineering. | ||
| • | Manage the product engineering resource to support the production effectively and timely. | ||
| • | Set up the projects to improve the performance of old products to reduce the cost. | ||
| • | Cooperate with R&D to introduce the new products and run mass production smoothly. | ||
Qualifications
| • | Bachelor or above in a relevant technical discipline (i.e. electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, automation engineering, etc.) | |
| • | 10+ years experience working in same position | |
| • | Preferred SPC, 6 Sigma, 5S, JIT, lean management experience, MBA educated | |
| • | Familiarity correlative product knowledge and work | |
| • | Flexible and accountable | |
| • | Fluent in listening, spoken and written English | |
| • | Good skill in communication, organization, coordination and expression | |
| • | Must receive proper training on ISO14001(EMS) and ISO9001(QMS). |
Job located in Shanghai. Please e-mail resumes to waraehr@raesystems.com.
Sr. Hardware Engineer - Wireless
Duties And Responsibilities
| • | Work with marketing and engineering teams to define wireless fixed and portable products. | ||
| • | Interface closely with sensor group, instrument group and third party wireless companies to develop wireless sensor devices. | ||
| • | Work closely with software engineering teams to validate wireless sensor network from a system perspective. | ||
| • | Complete design of board schematics and layout. | ||
| • | Bring up and validate new sensor and wireless technology. | ||
| • | Complete all deliverables and documentation required to release new board designs to production. | ||
| • | Provide wireless system application support to China marketing. | ||
Qualifications
| • | Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years hands-on experience in system and board development. | |
| • | Skilled in battery powered low-power and ultra low-power circuit design. | |
| • | Experience with firmware development. Understand embedded systems and can write C code to test and verify the hardware. | |
| • | Successful history in designing board-level schematics and routing wireless boards. | |
| • | Excellent board design CAD skills. | |
| • | Proven ability to rapidly turn a product concept into a high-quality, working board (i.e. in 1-2 months) | |
| • | Direct experience managing distributors, reps, vendors and service bureaus to acquire parts and to fab and assemble boards. |
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| • | Proven success bringing up and debugging new boards | |
| • | Experience in designing boards that meet EMI/EMC requirements | |
| • | RF systems design knowledge and experience with one or more of the following communications standards: IEEE 802.15.4 (Zigbee), IEEE 802.15.1 (Bluetooth), IEEE 802.11b/g, ISM band proprietary wireless system.869Mhz,915Mhz, 2.4Ghz, RFID |
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| • | Excellent teamwork, communication, and documentation skills. | |
| • | Customer support experience. | |
| • | Good English in writing and speaking. |
Desired Experience
| • | Masters degree in Electrical Engineering | |
| • | Experience in chemical gas sensor. | |
| • | 5+ years of System/Board design experience | |
| • | 3+ years experience in system design of wireless networking products | |
| • | Experience in using Protel, OrCad and PADS. | |
| • | Technical team leadership experience | |
| • | C and assembly programming skills on MSP430, AVR, PIC, ARM7. | |
| • | Knowledge of TCP/IP networking, especially Ethernet and 802.11 networks |
Job located in Shanghai. Please e-mail resumes to waraehr@raesystems.com.
Sr. Software Engineer
Duties And Responsibilities
| • | Manage Software R&D projects with VC++6.0, .Net, C, C++ on MS Windows and/or Linux platform. | ||
| • | Perform Software Design, Review, Coding and Implementation, and create relative documents. | ||
| • | Software R&D projects 40% | ||
| • | Security System Integration 20% | ||
| • | Documentation 20% | ||
| • | New technology development 20% | ||
Qualifications
| • | Major in Computer, Electronics or related. | |
| • | More than 6 years experiences in software development. | |
| • | Familiar with VC++, net on MS Windows, experience in C, C++ on Linux will be preferred. | |
| • | Experience in managing software project. | |
| • | Knowledge of database development (MS SQL Server, Access, etc). | |
| • | Knowledge of network development (TCP, HTTP, XML, SOAP, SNMP, etc). | |
| • | Experience in Security System or System Integration is an advantage. |
Job located in Shanghai. Please e-mail resumes to waraehr@raesystems.com.
Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer
Duties And Responsibilities
| • | Analyze mold technology and structure for new products to improve the operation efficiency. | ||
| • | Design and develop innovative, high quality products. | ||
| • | Cooperate with SCM and SQE vendor selection and qualification. | ||
| • | Support R&D on new product design including manufacturability design review. | ||
| • | Responsible for mold verification and revision. | ||
Qualifications
| • | At least 5 years experience in mechanical structure design. | |
| • | Bachelor degree or above, major in Mechanical Design, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent. | |
| • | Familiar with design for reliability & manufacturability, solid metal material and heat treatment process knowledge is preferred. | |
| • | Familiar with USA & Europe mechanical standards & drawings. | |
| • | Familiar with portable and fixed measurement device design on industry or structure. | |
| • | Good command of solid model software (Solid works and AutoCAD). | |
| • | Self motivated, goal oriented, strong interpersonal & communication skill, teamwork. Project management training & experience preferred. | |
| • | Fluent in English both spoken and written. |
Job located in Shanghai. Please e-mail resumes to waraehr@raesystems.com.
Firmware Engineer
Duties And Responsibilities
| • | Architect, design and implement embedded software, using C, assembly and embedded RTOS. | ||
| • | Write low-level test applications to assist in debugging hardware designs with hardware engineers | ||
| • | Test, document and support the developed applications | ||
| • | Design, review and implement new product applications with co-development partners | ||
| • | Share responsibility for both new product and product improvement initiatives. | ||
Qualifications
| • | BS in an Engineering field (ME/EE/CS) | |
| • | at least 5 years engineering experience | |
| • | Fluent in embedded C programming on 8/16/32 microcontrollers (PIC, MSP430, ARM), using RTOS environments. | |
| • | Experience in low-level and device driver programming. |
Desired Experience
| • | Familiarity with web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS). | |
| • | Experience in working with international/overseas based teams. | |
| • | Familiarity with project management. | |
| • | Excellent analytic, verbal and written communication skills. | |
| • | Familiar with Industry Control technologies. | |
| • | Familiar with CVS/Subversion |
Job located in Shanghai. Please e-mail resumes to waraehr@raesystems.com.
Hardware Engineer
Duties And Responsibilities
| • | Upgrade products hardware circuit design includes Schematics, PCB layout and Debug. | ||
| • | Develop Auto Test Equipment to increase test efficiency and to reduce test time. | ||
| • | Enhance the existing test techniques for maximum test quality to increase test precision and production throughput. |
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| • | Analyze and solve technical problems encounter in the production with Production Engineer. | ||
| • | Maintain test equipments and instruments. | ||
| • | Some new components validation. | ||
Qualifications
| • | Major in Computer Science, Electronic of related majors, BS or higher degree in Electronics Engineering. | |
| • | At least 3-year experiences in hardware development, expert in MCU, ARM hardware design. | |
| • | Familiar with C language, Matlab or other tools. | |
| • | EMI/EMC experience is requested. | |
| • | Good communication skills in English (both written and verbal). | |
| • | Good in team work and aggressive personality. | |
| • | Able to work independently and take responsibility. |
Job located in Shanghai. Please e-mail resumes to waraehr@raesystems.com.
Sensor Hardware Engineer
Duties And Responsibilities
| • | Design sensors to meet instruments and customers’ requirement. | ||
| • | Improve current products to meet new needs of the marketing. | ||
| • | Develop sensor test methods and test tools. | ||
| • | Write documents including: feasibility report, test report, evaluation report, verification report, application notes, etc. | ||
| • | Communicate with marketing and manufactory group and instrument developing group for launching new sensors into the market at the timely manner. | ||
| • | Share knowledge with other colleagues. | ||
Qualifications
| • | Bachelor or above in Physics, Electronic, Specialty of Observe and Control Technology and Instrument or relevant subject. | |
| • | Good knowledge of gas detecting instrument including physics method. | |
| • | Familiar with electronic, math, statistics theory as well as strong firmware skill. | |
| • | More than 2 years working experience in electronic product developing job. | |
| • | Good at written and oral English. | |
| • | Good at communication skills. |
Job located in Shanghai. Please e-mail resumes to waraehr@raesystems.com.
Product Engineer
Duties And Responsibilities
| • | Accomplishment of the management of task including validation and update all the technical document, validate and update of bill of material. | ||
| • | Drawing: review of mechanical drawings, circuit diagram, label layout, etc. | ||
| • | Manufacturing process card, test instruction creation and update. | ||
| • | Establish the logical process flow chart according to product technical data. | ||
| • | Improve manufacturability and product efficiency. | ||
| • | New components replacement validation for responsible products. | ||
| • | NPI | ||
Qualifications
| • | University degree in a relevant technical discipline (i.e. Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Automation Engineering, etc). | |
| • | 3 years experience in working in electronics assembly environment. | |
| • | Preferred SPC, product management, 6 Sigma, 5S, or lean management experience. | |
| • | Be able to work independently. | |
| • | Good knowledge in both oral and written English. | |
| • | Good knowledge in both analog and circuit design and FA. | |
| • | Preference in experience in instrument manufacturing with product responsibility. |
Job located in Shanghai. Please e-mail resumes to waraehr@raesystems.com.
Regional Sales Manager, Middle East Region
Looking for a responsible Regional Sales Manager to develop business with a large impact on end-users inclusive of the oil, gas, petrochemical and environmental sector. Thorough safety equipment experience (Gas Detection preferred) along with experience to manage distributors and secure long term projects within the government/military sector is preferred.
Skills
| • | An exceptional communicator and diplomatic negotiator with the ability to develop excellent multi-level relationships and routes to market within a defined sales territory. | |
| • | Demonstrable track record of success within gas detection or associated industry. | |
| • | Sense of urgency and superior follow-through skills; comfortable in dealing with both customers and end-users. |
If interested, please contact Alaa Ayoub
Email: aayoub@raesystems.com
Fax +9718875563
Please paste your resume (CV) into your email, with your current salary
to jobs@raesystems.com.

