Sr Systems Engineer

Spectrum Safety Solutions:

With approximately 1,400 employees operating in more than 20 countries, Spectrum Safety Solutions is a global leader in fire detection and suppression solutions for high-hazard applications across verticals such as critical infrastructure, oil and gas, marine and clean energy. Our global team leverages strong customer relationships across four recognized brands, Det-Tronics, Marioff, Autronica, and Fireye, to deliver differentiated lifecycle solutions and advance growth across key segments. Carved out from Carrier's Fire & Security business in July 2024, Spectrum Safety Solutions is now a privately-held company under the ownership of Sentinel Capital Partners.

Det-Tronics:

We make the world a better place to live! At Spectrum's Det-Tronics, we build and maintain comfortable, accessible, efficient, healthy, safe, secure, and sustainable environments. Det-Tronics is a $180M technologically innovative, projects-based global brand protecting customers in many challenging environments with high end flame and gas detection products and systems. Det-Tronics is a part of Spectrum Safety Solutions and has a global footprint with manufacturing sites in the U.S. and sales presence in all key geographies.

About this role

The Sr. Systems Engineer owns architecture and requirements development and management through their verification and validation within new product developments and sustaining projects. They act as the technical lead on projects, and develop and command an expert level understanding of the product design and maintain a deep technical understanding of the design and functions. They interact across all functions and with customers, and play a key role in defining future products and derivatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Capture, derive, and write requirements and associated rationale(s) for multi-domain systems.
• Document architectures and system level simulations and analyses.
• Technical project lead. Lead user, product, and engineering level (software-hardware) requirements and process definition of new and existing products through the product lifecycle.
• Actively participate in strategic planning, concept generation, architecture definition and translation to system/subsystem definitions of new designs that are reliable, safe, manufacturable, and sustainable.
• Configure and utilize tools and processes to implement and ensure traceability from requirements to verification and validation test cases.
• Ensure accurate and complete requirements testing.
• Support and contribute to leading the development and documentation of risk analyses.
• Develop processes and metrics to track progress.
• Work cross-functionally facilitating technical discussions and providing technical guidance to project teams including technical and design reviews.
• Act as a technical point of contact on projects and ensure compliance to development procedures on projects by all functions.
• Work on and support multiple product development programs at a given time.
• Track present outcomes and progress on a frequent basis.
• Participate in evaluation of technical talent.
• Develop and implement risk mitigating solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.
• 5+ years of professional work experience.
• 2+ years direct experience in requirements management and with electromechanical products.
• Systems engineer role in at least one project that involved embedded software (firmware).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical, Computer Engineering or Software.
• Demonstrated experience with a Requirements/Test Case Management tool, such as Doors, Jama, or Jira.
• Experienced with connected solutions and cybersecurity.
• Thorough knowledge of Embedded System Design preferably for regulated products.
• Experienced with high hazard applications (Industrial Life Safety, SIL2) or regulated industries (aerospace or medical devices).
• Strong communication skills to capture market needs from Product Managers, Technical Support, Service Personnel, and Customers.
• Skilled in distilling market needs into defined technical requirements and system/subsystem architectures, and communicating them to electrical, software/firmware, and mechanical engineers.
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently on assignments to foster continuous improvement of team functions and deliverables.
• Experience across all phases of the program development lifecycle, from capture through design, implementation, and test.
• Experienced with FMEAs, ASPICE, SCRUM/AGILE.
• Self-motivated and demonstrated ability to lead process, requirements/test case efforts.