Software Engineer

RPM Innovations is hiring a Software Engineer for its corporate facility in Rapid City, South Dakota, with an onsite work arrangement. In this role, you will design, develop, modify, and verify software solutions, including software that interfaces with additive manufacturing hardware.

The position focuses on building reliable software systems that support manufacturing workflows, operator safety, and operational requirements, while also collaborating across disciplines to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, and following the software development lifecycle.
• Interface with and control additive manufacturing hardware, including components such as lasers, motion controllers, motors, sensors, and drives.
• Analyze requirements across line of business, use case, and technical perspectives to build an integrated understanding of the additive manufacturing process.
• Create specifications and determine operational feasibility within existing specifications.
• Evaluate design feasibility based on time and cost constraints.
• Design, develop, and modify software systems to provide predictable outcomes, ensuring designs always account for operator safety.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code aligned with SOLID principles.
• Modify existing software to correct errors, support new hardware, or improve performance.
• Develop and carry out software verification plans and quality assurance procedures, including regression tests, code reviews, and design reviews.
• Demonstrate solutions meet requirements through documentation, including flowcharts, layouts, and diagrams, along with code comments and annotations and maintainable code.
• Perform full lifecycle software development as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Improve operations through systems analysis and recommendations related to policies and procedures.
• Coordinate software system installation, integrating software components into a fully functional software system.
• Monitor equipment function to ensure specifications are met.
• Write operating manuals or communicate effectively with the manual writer.
• Obtain and license software by gathering required vendor information, recommending purchases, testing and approving products.
• Assist with technical specifications for computer related purchases.
• Evaluate and recommend hardware and software solutions to improve security and efficiency of company operations.
• Maintain and expand job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment, participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining professional networks, and engaging in professional organizations.
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential, recognizing access to industrial and trade secrets and the need to safeguard intellectual property.
• Train users to operate new or modified equipment.
• Train employees on third-party and internal software applications.
• Assist with the design and implementation of information system solutions for tracking employee time, material, accounting, and other information resources.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, mathematics, or information science.
• Equivalent work experience may be considered if candidates have demonstrated computer programming skills.
• Excellent technical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and teamwork skills; preference given to motivated individuals who demonstrate creativity and a willingness to learn.
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• Proven working experience in software engineering.
• Ability to develop software in C#, VB.Net, C++, or other selected languages.
• Excellent multi-tasking skills and ability to prioritize concurrent tasks with minimal direction.
• Continuous improvement mindset focused on efficiency of support processes, customer satisfaction, and monitoring, management, and optimization tools.
• Ability to work on another’s design and support cross-functional development by contributing to the maturation of company processes and procedures.
• Must maintain excellent written, verbal, and customer relationship communication skills.
• Capacity to work well in groups and willingness to understand the roles of fellow team members.

Technologies

• MS Visual Studio
• C#
• Visual Basic.Net
• MS DevOps / Team Foundation Server
• MS Windows Server
• MS SQL Server
• MS SQL Server Express
• MS SharePoint
• MS Exchange
• MS Windows Professional
• Microsoft Office
• Siemens TIA
• Android App Development
• ABB Mint Workbench
• IPG LaserNet (stand-alone program, C API, and TCP Protocol)

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with RTOS and real-time processes.
• Prior motion control knowledge.
• Familiarity with numerical control programming languages used in computer-aided manufacturing, including G-code and M-code.
• Familiarity with additive manufacturing concepts, especially metal-based additive manufacturing.
• Familiarity with 5-axis machine systems.
• Familiarity with software development methodology and release processes, including agile programming and SOLID principles.
• Numerical and analytical skills such as computational geometry used in path planning.
• Familiarity with GigE cameras / industrial vision systems.
• Familiarity with long-running, multithreaded applications.

Benefits

• Health/dental insurance
• Simple IRA program
• Paid holidays/vacation
• Employee assistance program

Additional Information

• Mandatory pre-employment drug screen is required.