Senior Software Systems Engineer — Remote

Eliassen Group; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Staff Software Systems Engineer to lead software requirements engineering, traceability, and risk analysis for software-intensive products across mobile, web, backend, APIs, SDKs, cloud services, and connected workflows. The engineer will drive cross-functional alignment, surface risks and dependencies, and maintain end-to-end traceability in Jama Connect or equivalent tools within a regulated environment.

Rate: $62.00 to $72.00/hr. w2.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Systems Engineering or requirements engineering for software-intensive products.
• Staff-level ownership of architecture decomposition, interfaces, workflows, ambiguity resolution, and cross-functional technical leadership.
• Hands-on requirements management and end-to-end traceability using Jama Connect or equivalent tools.
• Experience with iOS, Android, web applications, plus APIs, SDKs, cloud, backend services.
• Strong systems thinking, communication, and collaboration across product, engineering, regulatory and quality teams.
• Preferred experience in regulated environments such as medical devices, digital health, SaMD; familiarity with IEC 62304 and ISO 14971.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, risk management tools, verification tools, GitHub, and Agile artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Author, review, baseline, and maintain high-quality System and Software Requirements Specifications in Jama Connect with strong decomposition, allocation, and change control.
• Decompose system requirements into software requirements and define acceptance criteria with Product and Engineering.
• Establish and maintain end-to-end traceability across user needs, system and software requirements, design outputs, risk controls, and verification evidence. Perform gap and impact analyses.
• Lead feature- and subsystem-level Systems Engineering activities across iOS/Android, web, backend services, APIs, SDKs, cloud services, and connected workflows.
• Develop and maintain interface requirements, data-flow definitions, workflows, operational concepts, and API/integration specifications across device, app, cloud, backend, data platform, and partner boundaries.
• Partner with Product Management, Software Engineering, Architecture, Verification, Quality, Regulatory, Human Factors, Cybersecurity, Clinical, Data Platform, and partner-integration teams throughout the lifecycle.
• Contribute to system hazard analysis, software risk assessment, and interface-risk evaluation. Define and trace risk-control requirements consistent with ISO 14971 principles.
• Support verification planning, acceptance-criteria development, defect and field-issue investigations, sustaining changes, and release impact assessments.
• Drive technical reviews, resolve ambiguity, document assumptions and decisions, and align stakeholders without direct authority.
• Mentor engineers on requirements quality, traceability, interfaces, architecture thinking, and regulated Systems Engineering practices.

Skills

Systems Engineering leadership

Requirements management

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulated environments understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Jama Connect

DOORS

Polarion

Codebeamer

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Staff Software Systems Engineer to lead software requirements engineering, traceability, and risk analysis for software-intensive products across mobile, web, backend, APIs, SDKs, cloud services, and connected workflows. The engineer will drive cross-functional alignment, surface risks and dependencies, and maintain end-to-end traceability in Jama Connect or equivalent tools within a regulated environment.

Rate: $62.00 to $72.00/hr. w2.