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Who Are We?

Join an exciting team working to advance electrified, automated, and smart connected products within The Toro Company's Landscapes and Contractor Engineering Division, driving system level electrification, hybrid-electric, and controls solutions across electromechanical products. This role is the nexus between mechanical, electrical, software, marketing, and systems, translating customer needs into functional designs and production-ready platforms with system architecture, safety and requirements-driven development of electronic and electrified systems and products.

In the Landscapes and Contractor Group, we take pride in being an industry leader in developing turf care products for residential and commercial customers under the Toro, Exmark, and Spartan brands. Our teams strive to create innovative, productive, and reliable products while partnering with world-class employees that bring passion to their everyday work. The Toro Corporation truly values its employees with employee development and advancement opportunities.

What Will You Do?

System Architecture, Electrification & Controls

• Provide technical ownership for electrical and controls systems at the machine and platform level, including requirements, architectures, interfaces, diagnostics, and verification plans.

• Lead definition of system requirements, interfaces, diagnostics strategies, and verification plans across electromechanical products.

• Architect, select, and integrate system components (motors, inverters, batteries, chargers, sensors, switches, and harnesses) to meet performance, durability, manufacturability, safety, and cost targets.

• Develop and tune controls systems for machine applications, including motors, actuators, and power-stage electronics, in close collaboration with firmware/software teams.

• Drive system definition activities including architecture specifications, functional decomposition, and traceability from stakeholder needs to hardware and software interfaces.

Validation, Safety & Compliance

• Lead systemlevel verification and validation activities using schematics, oscilloscopes, meters, DAQ systems, simulation tools, and data analysis to confirm performance, durability, and reliability targets are met.

• Lead definition and documentation of functional safety concepts, safety functions, and performance allocations in partnership with safety, legal, and regulatory stakeholders.

• Coordinate and facilitate product and platformlevel risk assessments, including hazard identification, risk evaluation, and mitigation strategy development.

• Support compliance activities in partnership with regulatory teams and external labs for EMC, safety, and functional safety requirements.

CrossFunctional Delivery

• Serve as a technical integrator across electrical, mechanical, software, controls, and safety disciplines to ensure aligned system behavior and design intent throughout the product lifecycle.

• Operate as the technical nexus between mechanical, electrical, software, marketing, systems, and other groups to align solutions with customer needs and program objectives.

• Lead and contribute to concept development, feasibility studies, and production launch activities within crossfunctional teams.

• Lead handson prototyping, instrumentation, and integration of electrical, mechanical, and software systems to evaluate concepts and mature designs.

• Execute fastfail experiments and structured testing to quickly learn, iterate, and reduce technical risk.

Technical Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Provide technical mentoring and peer guidance to engineers across disciplines, strengthening systems thinking, requirements quality, and safetydriven design practices.

• Identify emerging technologies, develop innovative concepts and product proposals aimed at meeting targeted market requirements or addressing distinct customer challenges.

• Support development with model based tools (e.g., MATLAB/Simulink, LabVIEW) to develop control algorithms, simulations, and HIL/SIL validation.

• Support existing products through troubleshooting, debugging, root cause analysis, and product improvement initiatives.

• Create and maintain highquality technical documentation including system requirements, DFMEAs, test plans, and design review materials.

• Collaborate with the Legal team regarding possible patent initiatives and strategies to minimize liability.

• Occasionally travel to test sites, suppliers, distributors, customers, manufacturing facilities, and others as required.

• Provide daytoday technical guidance to junior engineers and collaborate effectively with suppliers.

What Do You Need?

• B.S. or M.S. Degree in Electrical, Mechatronics, or related Engineering field from an ABET accredited university required.

• Engineer III- 5-7 years of experience in consumer or industrial product development of electro-mechanical or electronically controlled systems, with a demonstrated high level of competency in bringing electrical, electronic, or electrified systems and products from concept through to production.

• Engineer IV-8+ years of experience in consumer or industrial product development of electro-mechanical or electronically controlled systems, with a demonstrated high level of competency in bringing electrical, electronic, or electrified systems and products from concept through to production.

• Demonstrated experience in system-level controls & electrification development: requirements, power distribution, safety, diagnostics, and verification.

• Demonstrated experience debugging firmware/software for motors and machines.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and troubleshoot vehicle electrical systems using machine schematics, meters, oscilloscopes and data acquisition equipment.

• Demonstrated experience mentoring coworkers.

• Demonstrated strong collaboration skills, including ability to translate cross-functionally to converge on feasible, valuable solutions.

• Demonstrated technical competency, ability to identify and reduce risk, drive clarity, meet timelines, and apply strong engineering judgment to open ended situations to achieve project outcomes.

• Highly competent oral and written communication skills, in English.

• Results-driven and action-oriented; self-motivated, positive and energetic.

• Strong problem solving skills.

• Strong process orientation and drive for continuous improvement.

• Desire to work in a fast paced, challenging, and evolving environment with a team-first mindset.

• Demonstrated creative, fastfail learner who documents tradeoffs and iterates quickly.

• Ability to multitask and manage multiple simultaneous projects of various complexities and size.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with CAN or similar communication protocols preferred.

• Experience with functional safety concepts, standards, and documentation practices preferred.

• Demonstrated motor controls experience.

• Experience with Li-ion battery development and machine integration preferred.

• Experience working with NRTL's to achieve regulatory approvals preferred.

• Experience designing using EMI/EMC fundamentals preferred.

• Leadership experience within product development teams preferred.

• Experience designing for environmental sealing preferred.

• Demonstrated mechanical design experience and proficiency.

• Experience using CAD/modeling workflows and interpreting mechanical tradeoffs preferred.

• Experience with Matlab/Simulink, NI LabVIEW, or other model-based design tools preferred.

• Demonstrated experience developing firmware/software for motors and machines.

What Can We Give You?

At The Toro Company, we are always working to make sure our employees know just how valued they are. In addition to a competitive salary, an affordable and top tier medical/dental/vision plan, 401k, and many other great benefits -The Toro company offers employees at our Bloomington, MN HQlocation a variety of perks, including:

Dress for your day - We know you're more productive when you're comfortable, which is why TTC employees are encouraged to take advantage of our casual, corporate environment.

Location - Conveniently located near both St. Paul and Minneapolis, we are centrally located for most commuters!

Food - Take advantage of our onsite cafe, which serves both breakfast and lunch. With a Caribou Coffee attached, you can grab a snack and a coffee at any time during your day.

Wellness - The Toro Company's HQ offers complimentary use of our onsite fitness facility to employees. In addition to physical wellbeing, TTC offers a variety of mental health and financial health resources to all employees.

Volunteerism - The Toro Company is proud to provide employees 20 hours of paid time to volunteer in the community.

Summer Hours - Enjoy a flexible schedule during the summer! By working a little more during the first few days of the week, TTC employees at our Bloomington HQ are able to start their weekends early and leave by noon on Friday.

Flexible Work Arrangements - This team is currently implementing a hybrid work schedule. The opportunity to collaborate in the office and work from home part-time, has promoted team-building and flexibility.

Competitive Salary - The pay range takes into account skills, experience, education, and location. It is not common to be hired at or near the top of the range; compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the annual pay range is between $96900- $140000. Cash compensation is one piece of our competitive total rewards package. You may be eligible to participate in an incentive program, which rewards employees based on individual and organizational performance. Eligibility and award amounts are determined by company policy and performance metrics. If you need to, you can access your pay early with dailypay app.

At The Toro Company, we are committed to fostering a secure and trustworthy recruitment experience for our applicants. Recruitment fraud is a growing concern for job seekers, so please be aware that throughout our recruitment process, you'll never be required to pay any fees or disclose personal financial details when applying to TTC opportunities. All legitimate job opportunities must be applied for directly through our official careers page at jobs.thetorocompany.com or via Workday, our applicant tracking system.

The Toro Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants based on merit and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service, or other non-merit factors. We are committed to creating a welcoming environment for all employees

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