Senior System Integration Engineer

Please Note: This position requires primarily onsite work, with two potential work locations near Rockford or Aurora, IL. Candidates must currently be within a reasonable commuting distance of at least one location. At this time, this role is not open to candidates who require relocation and employment sponsorship is not available.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, manage, and maintain product-level system requirements throughout the development lifecycle.

• Translate customer, business, product, and regulatory needs into clear, testable, and traceable engineering requirements.

• Define and maintain system architecture, subsystem interfaces, inputs, outputs, and interactions.

• Lead system integration activities and proactively identify and manage technical integration risks.

• Serve as a technical leader across mechanical, electrical, controls, and other engineering disciplines.

• Lead system-level technical decisions and evaluate tradeoffs involving performance, cost, reliability, manufacturability, and compliance.

• Drive alignment between engineering teams on critical technical decisions and system interfaces.

• Own system-level Design Verification Plans and Reports (DVP&R) and ensure validation activities demonstrate full product performance.

• Review subsystem validation plans and ensure alignment with overall system requirements.

• Lead system-level design reviews, integration discussions, and technical problem-solving activities.

• Communicate system status, technical risks, integration challenges, and recommended solutions to engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Lead root cause analysis of system-level issues and coordinate cross-functional corrective actions.

• Capture lessons learned and continuously improve systems engineering practices.

• Provide systems engineering ownership throughout the full NPD lifecycle, including concept and feasibility, design, validation, and ongoing product lifecycle improvements.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

• 5+ years of experience in product development, systems engineering, or a closely related engineering function.

• Strong understanding of system architecture, requirements definition, system integration, and verification/validation.

• Experience working across multiple engineering disciplines within complex product development environments.

• Demonstrated ability to understand subsystem interactions and evaluate product performance at the overall system level.

• Strong technical problem-solving, root cause analysis, and decision-making capabilities.

• Ability to evaluate engineering tradeoffs involving performance, cost, reliability, manufacturability, and compliance.

• Strong cross-functional communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading system-level product development efforts.

• Experience with requirements management and traceability tools.

• Experience developing and/or owning DVP&R or similar system-level verification and validation processes.

• Experience working with regulated products and applicable compliance standards.

• Experience supporting products that integrate mechanical, electrical, controls, or similar multidisciplinary technologies.