Senior Home Standby Systems Engineer — Lead Integrator

Generac; Waukesha (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Generac, located in Wisconsin, seeks a Staff Systems Engineer for Home Standby Systems Engineering to integrate mechanical, electronic, and embedded firmware into a complete product. You will partner with radio, controller, engine, manufacturing, and applications teams to define and verify system-level requirements.

You will use Codebeamer for requirements tracking and drive technical direction through completion, review CAD interfaces in Creo/SolidWorks, and mentor junior engineers to uphold

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of systems engineering experience.
• Experience with complex products integrating mechanical, electrical, and embedded firmware subsystems.
• Familiarity with V-model and requirements management.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the systems integrator for Home Standby products, bringing mechanical, electronic, and embedded firmware subsystems together into one complete product.
• Partner with radio, controller, engine, manufacturing, applications, and other engineering teams to define subsystem interfaces and resolve integration issues.
• Develop, document, communicate, maintain, and manage system-level requirements.
• Uses Codebeamer to manage requirements.
• Define verification and validation strategies and ensure test plans and results demonstrate that system requirements have been met.
• Develops and maintains system architecture, block and boundary diagrams, system inputs and outputs, and Interface Control Documents.
• Leads and participates in technical design reviews, integration reviews, and cross-functional decision making across the product lifecycle.
• Applies DFMEA and DVP&R methods to identify technical risks, define controls, establish validation coverage, and track mitigation actions.
• Reviews 3D CAD models in Creo, SolidWorks, or comparable environments to understand interfaces, packaging, and integration constraints; advanced CAD modeling is not a primary responsibility.
• Identifies and communicates system risks, opportunities, dependencies, priorities, and recommended actions to technical and business stakeholders.
• Independently translates broad technical direction into executable plans and drives work through completion in a developing systems engineering function.
• Mentors less experienced engineers and promotes consistent requirements, documentation, integration, and validation practices.
• Supports product development plans in delivering on-schedule, on-cost, on-quality, and compliant solutions.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Cross-functional leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Systems Engineering, or a related engineering discipline

Tools

Codebeamer

Creo

SolidWorks

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Generac, located in Wisconsin, seeks a Staff Systems Engineer for Home Standby Systems Engineering to integrate mechanical, electronic, and embedded firmware into a complete product. You will partner with radio, controller, engine, manufacturing, and applications teams to define and verify system-level requirements.

You will use Codebeamer for requirements tracking and drive technical direction through completion, review CAD interfaces in Creo/SolidWorks, and mentor junior engineers to uphold