Description:
Responsibilities
As a Senior Autonomous Systems Engineer, you will:
- Lead the technical aspects of projects in collaboration with the Chief Engineer, Project Manager and a team of subject matter experts
- Evaluate customer requirements and operational use cases to define and decompose system functional and performance requirements
- Develop and design system architectural design trade-off studies
- Assess cross-domain dependencies, including the simulation and modelling of system components to allow data-driven decisions for optimal system performance
- Continuously evaluate technical risk within the project and proactively working with the team to mitigate
- Plan and coordinate systems integration
- Ensure compliance of the design with the system requirements, standards and specifications while balancing competing business requirements such as cost and time to market
- Complete system and product analyses for reliability, maintainability, testability, usability, survivability, vulnerability, susceptibility, affordability, safety, system security, regulatory, certification, product assurance and other specialties
- Contribute to the continuous improvement and application of Systems Engineering processes and best practices
Qualifications
Must-Have:
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering related discipline or equivalent industry experience
- Extensive experience in a high technology, product development environment
- Experience in a Systems Engineering related role
Key Success Factors:
- Proven understanding and execution of traditional systems engineering principles
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of the product development life cycle and systems development V-model
- Analytical problem-solving skills with systems thinking and attention to detail
- Strong collaboration, facilitation and interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
- Strong communication, negotiation, and technical leadership skills
- Technical research abilities with the aptitude for sharing of information and expertise
- Strong systems and software architectural design and analysis skills
Nice-to-Have:
- Familiarity with electronic actuation of vehicle-control systems, automotive-grade controllers in safety-critical applications, as well as CAN and ROS interfaces
- Experience with multi-sensor systems and technologies, including GNSS, IMU, Laser, LiDAR, RADAR, ultrasonic, vision/optical, etc.
- Proven experience working with system integrators and OEMs
- Proven application of reliability engineering principles, including FMEA, MTBF, and RCA
- Product development experience for operation in harsh environmental environments, such as military, marine, agricultural, and automotive environments
- Expertise with one or more requirements management tools, such as Polarion or DOORS
- Well versed in developing and managing verifiable requirements for systems, hardware and software
- Knowledge and experience in product/system integration, verification and validation
- Familiarity with ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 and ASPICE process standards
- Awareness of architectural frameworks (e.g. UAF, DoDAF, MODAF, TOGAF), Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and related tools such as Enterprise Architect (EA) or CORE