Senior System Engineer
Job Responsibilities:
-Align and reconcile stakeholder inputs across multiple projects and functions; negotiate conflicting needs to define and shape the strategic scope and success criteria of products within complex programs.
-Define system life cycle models and system data model strategy; ensure design requirements are consistently traceable and support system‑of‑systems objectives and measurable business outcomes.
-Lead development of system concepts, manage architectural interfaces and integration landscapes across multiple projects; resolve cross‑project integration conflicts, enforce consistent interface standards, and ensure interoperability across subsystems.
-Implement platform strategies and modularization patterns across programs; evaluate trade‑offs between reuse, cost, schedule and product differentiation and articulate reusable platform roadmaps.
-Lead multidisciplinary design methodology across projects; drive collaboration between mechanical, electrical, software and clinical disciplines, and govern design consistency and best practices.
-Define system integration strategy for complex programs; reduce integration risk through phased integration plans, coordinated testing activities and cross‑site integration governance.
-Establish supplier qualification criteria and supplier performance frameworks for complex subsystems; lead supplier improvement initiatives and coordinate corrective actions and quality escalations across programs from a technical perspective.
-Drive trade‑offs and system‑level decision using modeling, simulation, and data analytics. Validate and scale modeling and simulation approaches across programs.
-Define usability and human factors considerations; translate user‑centered findings into design, considering ergonomic and safety design principles.
-Drive reliability, maintainability, and serviceability targets for product lines; lead root cause investigations, cross‑program hazard and cybersecurity assessments and contribute to regulatory submissions.
-Interpret and apply complex regulatory requirements across multiple domains; lead cross-program hazard and security assessments; ensures appropriate evidence for regulatory submissions.
-Lead program level risk governance; prioritize technical mitigation investments and establish risk escalation and acceptance criteria across projects.
-Oversee configuration and release strategy; enforce cross‑project configuration consistency, approve major baseline changes and manage the impact of large releases.
-Define lifecycle management strategies for major products; integrate circular economy and sustainability principles into design, spare parts and end‑of‑life planning to maximize long‑term product value.-Lead and apply data technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a component in system design and apply AI in Systems Engineering workflows.
-Coach systems engineers, imparting specialized knowledge and fostering their growth in systems engineering principles and methodologies.
Minimum Education:
Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering or equivalent.
Minimum Experience:
Minimum 5 years of experience with Bachelor's OR Minimum 3 years of experience with Master's in areas such as System Architecture, System Design, Hardware Engineering or equivalent.
Preferred Certification:
INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP)
Six Sigma Green Belt
Preferred Skills:
Product Development Lifecycle Management
Regulatory Requirements
Systems Architecture
Systems Engineering
Systems Design
Systems Integration
Configuration Management (CM)
Verification Testing
Product Risk Management
Usability Engineering
Business Acumen
Team leader
Requirements Management
Product Quality and Reliability
Product Testing & Validation
Software Testing & Validation
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
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