Senior Systems Engineer

Eaton Group; Vantaa; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-growing company

Challenging projects

Promotion opportunities

Safe, ethical workplace

Job summary

Eaton is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Medium Voltage Solid State Transformer domain at its Vantaa campus. You will define and maintain product requirements, interfaces, and traceability across multi-disciplinary teams to support rigorous verification and validation activities.

Join a global leader in power electronics, work with diverse engineering teams, and contribute to energy-efficient solutions in a dynamic environment that values safety and ethics.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, electrical product development, requirements engineering, or verification and validation of complex technical products.
• Experience in developing and managing requirements, defining interfaces, ensuring traceability, and planning verifications.
• Familiarity with model-based systems engineering and requirements management tools.
• Knowledge of power electronics or medium-voltage equipment is an advantage.
• Strong communication, cross-functional collaboration, and meticulous documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain system, subsystem, and component requirements based on customer and stakeholder needs.
• Define, document, and maintain electrical, mechanical, firmware, control, and interface definitions between system components.
• Support model-based systems engineering and maintain models in engineering tools.
• Allocate requirements to subsystems with relevant teams and ensure traceability from needs to design and tests.
• Collaborate with validation engineers to define verification methods and acceptance criteria.
• Monitor coverage, identify gaps, and support timely resolution before design reviews.
• Contribute to system architecture, trade studies, risk analysis, and change-impact assessment.
• Link standards and regulatory requirements to product requirements and verification evidence.

Skills

Requirements mgmt

Interface definition

Traceability

Verification planning

Tools

MBSE tools

Engineering tools

Job description

Eaton's new campus for its critical power systems in Vantaa, Finland, was completed in November 2023. The 16,500 m² site houses research and development, manufacturing, warehousing, sales and service under one roof, which will create plenty of additional jobs.

As one of the world’s largest manufacturers of three-phase uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), Eaton’s expansion in this area is driven by strong business growth and the demand for systems that ensure business continuity. Situated in a prime location next to the Helsinki airport, the Vantaa facility serves as Eaton’s Critical Power Solutions headquarters and a center of excellence for data centers.

Join Eaton and help us provide energy-efficient solutions that have a real impact on the environment. We make what matters work. Find out more on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baa_aiJ4L7E

What you’ll do:

Systems Engineer responsible for defining and maintaining product requirements, component interfaces, and end-to-end requirements traceability for the Medium Voltage Solid State Transformer (MVSST) product development projects. Ensures requirements are clear, allocated, verifiable, and covered by verification and validation activities throughout product development.

• Develop and maintain system, subsystem, and component requirements based on customer, product, regulatory, and stakeholder needs.
• Define, document, and maintain electrical, mechanical, firmware, control, communication, and functional interfaces between system components.
• Support the model-based systems engineering approach and maintain requirements and interface models in the selected engineering tools.
• Allocate requirements to relevant subsystems and engineering disciplines in collaboration with the relevant teams.
• Establish and maintain bidirectional traceability from stakeholder needs and product requirements to design outputs, test cases, and verification evidence.
• Review requirements for clarity, completeness, consistency, feasibility, and testability.
• Collaborate with validation engineers to define verification methods, acceptance criteria, and test coverage for requirements.
• Monitor requirements coverage, identify gaps, and support timely resolution before design and milestone reviews.
• Support system architecture, trade-off studies, design reviews, risk analysis, and change-impact assessment.
• Contribute to compliance documentation by linking applicable standards and regulatory requirements to the product requirements and verification evidence.
• Collaborate with global engineering teams to align requirements, interfaces, and development practices.
• Act ethically and according to Eaton Values and Philosophy, following company rules and policies.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in systems engineering, electrical product development, requirements engineering, or verification and validation of complex technical products

Skills:

• Experience in requirements development and management, interface definition, requirements traceability, and verification planning.
• Understanding of systems engineering and product development lifecycles.
• Familiarity with model-based systems engineering and requirements management tools.
• Knowledge of power electronics, medium-voltage equipment, UPS, or other complex electrical systems is an advantage.
• Structured and analytical working style, strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to collaborate across engineering disciplines and global teams, and attention to detail in technical documentation
• Experience leading cross-functional development teams, strong communication skills

What we can offer to you:

• Contract in fast growing global company
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
• Great promotional opportunities - We encourage internal promotion, whenever possible
• Excellent working environment - safety and ethic are really important for us

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