Senior Systems Engineer - Embedded Fire Safety Systems

Kidde Global Solutions; Bradenton, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Kidde Global Solutions in Bradenton, FL, seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead development for embedded firmware and software-controlled life safety systems. You will translate product needs into system requirements, coordinating across architecture, design, verification, and production readiness.

You will also contribute to standard work, tools, and repeatable engineering practices, ensuring safety and quality across multiple projects in a global team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• 5+ years of systems engineering, or 8+ years in related engineering domains.
• Master’s degree preferred in Systems, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain system requirements for fire alarm systems.
• Analyze, decompose, document, and manage system and safety-critical requirements.
• Drive requirements decomposition aligned to system architecture and technical trade studies.
• Define system boundaries, inputs/outputs, data flows, and processing needs.
• Establish requirements based on VoC sessions, quality incident tickets, and technology improvements.
• Plan and coordinate verification/validation activities to ensure requirements coverage.
• Lead, facilitate and contribute to design, DFMEA, RRCA, and product safety reviews.
• Own assigned engineering workstreams across multiple projects or disciplines.
• Perform difficult or complex engineering activities and create standard works for common procedures.
• Manage significant work packages within complex engineering projects.
• Support customer documentation development.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Cross-functional collaboration

Safety-critical systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Master’s degree in Systems/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

DOORS

Rhapsody

Visio

Job description

Kidde Global Solutions in Bradenton, FL, seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead development for embedded firmware and software-controlled life safety systems. You will translate product needs into system requirements, coordinating across architecture, design, verification, and production readiness.

You will also contribute to standard work, tools, and repeatable engineering practices, ensuring safety and quality across multiple projects in a global team.