Senior ITS Systems Architect & Engineer

Synapse ITS; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Synapse ITS in Plano, TX seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to define and integrate system-level architectures for advanced traffic sensing, detection, communication, and control products. You will lead across hardware, embedded software, networking, IoT/cloud, and telemetry, translating market and regulatory needs into verifiable requirements, architecture, and verification plans.

Collaborating with Product Management, Hardware, Firmware, and field teams, you will guide lifecycle activities, risk

Qualifications

• Lead development and documentation of system architectures for traffic sensing, detection, and control.
• Translate market requirements into clear, measurable system requirements.
• Define system boundaries, interfaces, and data flows with subsystems.
• Allocate requirements across hardware, firmware/software, communications, power, IoT.
• Define and support system verification strategies and test plans.

Responsibilities

• Develop PRDs and System Requirements Specifications.
• Perform architectural trade studies on performance, cost, cybersecurity, and scalability.
• Lead system integration, verification, and validation activities.
• Lead requirements reviews, architecture reviews, and engineering peer reviews.
• Support Manufacturing, Quality, Applications Engineering during deployment and sustaining engineering.

Job description

Synapse ITS in Plano, TX seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to define and integrate system-level architectures for advanced traffic sensing, detection, communication, and control products. You will lead across hardware, embedded software, networking, IoT/cloud, and telemetry, translating market and regulatory needs into verifiable requirements, architecture, and verification plans.

Collaborating with Product Management, Hardware, Firmware, and field teams, you will guide lifecycle activities, risk