System Engineer

Company Overview

LinHR‘ Client is a leading global tier 1 auto parts supplier, celebrated for its innovation and excellence in the automotive industry. With two major Engineering sites in the USA—located in Moraine, OH, and Brighton, MI—and a combined team of approximately 150 employees, we are committed to driving technological progress and nurturing a vibrant, collaborative work environment.

Position Summary

We are seeking seeking Systems Engineer is responsible for the endtoend definition, design, integration, and verification of complex systems, ensuring that functional, performance, safety, and reliability requirements are met. The Engineer works across disciplines (hardware, software, test, manufacturing, and customers) to translate needs into requirements, develop system architectures, manage interfaces, and support validation and launch.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Elicit, analyze, and document stakeholder and customer needs, and translate them into clear system and subsystem requirements.
• Develop and maintain system architectures, block diagrams, and interface definitions that allocate requirements to hardware, software, and other system elements.
• Manage requirements traceability throughout the lifecycle, ensuring each requirement is implemented, verified, and validated.
• Coordinate and lead technical discussions between hardware, software, test, and manufacturing teams to resolve systemlevel issues and make design tradeoffs.
• Define and manage system interfaces (electrical, mechanical, network, software) and ensure compatibility across all subsystems.
• Support development of system level Design Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (DFMEA) and risk assessments; track and drive closure of key technical risks.
• Contribute to the creation and execution of Verification and Validation (V&V) plans, including test strategies, test cases, and acceptance criteria at system and subsystem levels.
• Analyze test results and field data to confirm system performance, identify root causes of issues, and support corrective actions and design improvements.
• Support change management by assessing systemlevel impact of proposed design changes and updating requirements, architectures, and documentation as needed.
• Prepare and present technical reviews, status updates, and decision papers to internal stakeholders and, when required, to customers.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives related to systems engineering methods, tools, and best practices.

REQUIREMENT QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience in systems engineering, product development, or a closely related role working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to decompose high level customer needs into system and subsystem requirements and maintain traceability.
• Familiarity with system architecture development, interface control, and documentation practices.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to understand interactions between hardware, software, and processes.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present technical topics to nonspecialists.
• Proficiency with standard office tools and comfort learning specialized engineering or requirements tools.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with requirements management tools (for example DOORS, Jama, Polarion, or similar).
• Background in a relevant domain (e.g., automotive, aerospace, industrial equipment, medical devices, or telecom).
• Knowledge of systems engineering standards or frameworks (for example INCOSE practices, ISO/IEC 15288, or similar).
• Experience with model based systems engineering (MBSE) methods and tools (e.g., SysML).
• Exposure to structured development and quality processes such as DFMEA, DVP&R, and configuration/change management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead crossfunctional technical activities and influence decisions without direct authority.

TRAVEL REQUIRED (%)

>50% travel to meet customers and suppliers with day travel to the various manufacturing facilities as required.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Ability to use and understand Windows Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and SharePoint, Microsoft (email). This is additional to the computer skill requirements as stated in the requirement qualifications.

REASONING ABILITY

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to read and understand engineering prints/drawings. Good level of analytical skills and interpersonal skills. Ability to work on a team.
• Ability to guide the efforts of support personnel.
• Good team building skills.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk and to sit; use hands to manipulate objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and to talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift up to 30 pounds.Specific vision abilities include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary 90K to 110K and performance-based incentives.
• Comprehensive benefits package, including vacation, medical, dental, vision, Pcard, Travel card, 401(k) with company match.
• A dynamic, inclusive work environment where your ability to unite people and execute solutions will directly impact business success.

LinHR is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under LinHR's Employment Accommodation Policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

LinHR is an equal opportunity employer seeking to live its values in all we do. We are committed to taking proactive steps to provide and create opportunities for historically marginalized groups. We seek applicants who will strengthen our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion. We strongly encourage qualified candidates from Indigenous, Black and other racialized persons, 2SLGBTQI+ people, individuals with disabilities, and other members of marginalized communities to consider working with and for LinHR. We recognize that structural barriers shape experiences and job qualifications, and therefore we seek to use employment equity to differentiate between candidates who meet the required qualifications. We encourage people to apply even if they feel that the position would be a stretch.

LinHR uses AI-assisted tools only to support screening and efficiency, never to make final decisions. All hiring decisions are made by human professionals, and candidates may request human review at any time.