Sr. Systems Engineer

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer
Job Description
The Senior Systems Engineer leads the architecture, requirements development, and lifecycle management of complex electromechanical and embedded systems, ensuring they are thoroughly verified and validated within both new product development and sustaining projects. This role serves as the technical lead on multiple programs, developing an expert-level understanding of product design and maintaining a deep technical grasp of system functions across hardware, firmware, and software. The Senior Systems Engineer collaborates closely with cross-functional teams and customers, plays a key role in defining future products and derivatives, and ensures that solutions are reliable, safe, manufacturable, sustainable, and aligned with strategic business objectives.
Responsibilities

• Own the development, documentation, and management of system and subsystem architectures and requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Capture, derive, and write clear, testable requirements and associated rationales for multi-domain systems, including electrical, mechanical, firmware, and software elements.
• Document architectures and perform system-level simulations and analyses to validate design concepts and ensure performance, safety, and reliability.
• Serve as the technical project lead, guiding user, product, and engineering-level (software and hardware) requirements and process definitions for new and existing products.
• Actively participate in strategic planning, concept generation, and architecture definition, translating high-level concepts into detailed system and subsystem definitions.
• Configure and utilize requirements and test case management tools to implement and maintain traceability from requirements through verification and validation test cases.
• Ensure accurate, complete, and traceable requirements testing, including the definition and review of verification and validation plans and test cases.
• Support and contribute to the development and documentation of risk analyses, including identification, assessment, and mitigation of technical risks.
• Develop and implement processes and metrics to track project and requirements progress, quality, and compliance.
• Work cross-functionally to facilitate technical discussions and provide technical guidance to project teams, including leading technical and design reviews.
• Act as a primary technical point of contact on projects, ensuring adherence to development procedures and standards by all participating functions.
• Support and manage multiple product development programs concurrently, balancing priorities and ensuring consistent technical oversight.
• Track and present project outcomes, risks, and progress on a frequent basis to stakeholders and leadership.
• Participate in the evaluation of technical talent, providing input on skills, capabilities, and development needs.
• Develop and implement risk-mitigating solutions for high hazard or regulated applications, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with product managers, technical support, service personnel, and customers to capture market needs and translate them into technical requirements and architectures.
• Distill complex market and customer needs into well-defined technical requirements and system/subsystem architectures and communicate them effectively to electrical, firmware, software, and mechanical engineering teams.
• Contribute across all phases of the program development lifecycle, from opportunity capture and concept design through implementation, integration, and test.
• Promote continuous improvement of engineering processes, requirements management, and test case development by leading and supporting process enhancement initiatives.

Essential Skills

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.
• Minimum of 5+ years of professional work experience in engineering roles.
• At least 2+ years of direct experience in requirements management, including authoring, tracing, and validating requirements.
• At least 2+ years of experience working with electromechanical products.
• Experience serving as a systems engineer on at least one project that involved embedded software (firmware).
• Hands-on experience with embedded systems design, including hardware and firmware integration.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, document, and manage system and subsystem architectures for multi-domain systems.
• Experience with requirements and test case management tools such as DOORS or Jira, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of connected solutions and cybersecurity considerations in embedded or networked systems.
• Thorough knowledge of embedded system design, preferably for regulated products.
• Experience with high hazard applications (such as industrial life safety or SIL2 environments) or regulated industries (such as aerospace or medical devices).
• Strong communication skills to capture market and customer needs from product management, technical support, service teams, and end users.
• Proven ability to translate market and customer needs into clear technical requirements and system/subsystem architectures.
• Ability to work both collaboratively within cross-functional teams and independently to drive assignments to completion.
• Experience across all phases of the program development lifecycle, from initial capture and concept through design, implementation, integration, and test.
• Familiarity with structured development processes and frameworks such as ASPICE and SCRUM/AGILE.
• Self-motivated with demonstrated ability to lead process improvements and requirements/test case efforts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to perform system-level analyses and risk assessments.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, design reviews, and cross-functional decision-making.
• Comfort working on multiple concurrent projects and managing competing priorities.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with specific requirements and test case management tools such as DOORS or Jira.
• Experience with connected and networked solutions, including cybersecurity best practices for embedded and industrial systems.
• Thorough knowledge of embedded system design for regulated products, including compliance with relevant industry standards.
• Experience with high hazard or industrial life safety applications, including familiarity with SIL2 or similar safety integrity levels.
• Experience in regulated industries such as aerospace or medical devices.
• Exposure to or experience with ASPICE-compliant development environments.
• Experience working within SCRUM or other AGILE methodologies in a product development context.
• Ability to define and implement processes and metrics for tracking requirements, verification, and validation activities.
• Experience leading or contributing to formal risk analyses and mitigation planning.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor or evaluate technical talent within engineering teams.
• Strong documentation skills for requirements, architectures, risk analyses, and test plans.
• Interest in high-tech applications within industrial or energy-related domains.
• Comfort working in environments where safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance are critical.

Work Environment
The role operates within an engineering-focused environment that centers on the development and support of high-tech electromechanical and embedded systems, including applications in industrial and high hazard domains such as gas and oil. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams of electrical, firmware, software, and mechanical engineers, as well as product management, technical support, and service personnel. The environment emphasizes structured development practices, including the use of requirements and test case management tools (such as DOORS or Jira), embedded system design methodologies, and frameworks like ASPICE and SCRUM/AGILE. Work typically involves participation in design and technical reviews, system simulations and analyses, and coordination across multiple concurrent projects. The culture values safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance, and encourages continuous improvement of processes, collaboration, and clear communication across functions.
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of Minneapolis, MN.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $70.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Minneapolis,MN.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Jun 12, 2026.
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