Staff Systems Engineer - Home Standby Installation

Generac Power Systems; Waukesha (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Generac Power Systems is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer for the Home Standby Systems Engineering team. You will integrate mechanical, electronic, and embedded firmware subsystems into a complete product, working with radio, controller, engine, manufacturing, and applications teams.

You will define interfaces, manage system-level requirements, and drive verification plans. This role also includes mentoring engineers and guiding cross-functional development across the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Software, or Systems Engineering.
• 8+ years engineering experience including systems integration for complex products.
• Experience with V-model, verification, validation, and requirements management.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the systems integrator for Home Standby products with mechanical, electronic, and embedded firmware subsystems.
• Define subsystem interfaces and resolve integration issues across multiple teams.
• Develop and manage system-level requirements and verification strategies.
• Lead technical design reviews and cross-functional decision making.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and promote best practices.

Skills

Systems integration

Cross-functional collaboration

Requirements management

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Software, or Systems Engineering

Master of Science in STEM (preferred)

Tools

Codebeamer

Creo

SolidWorks

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

We believe power is a promise - a shared commitment to be there for others when it matters most.

For more than 65 years, we’ve turned big ideas into solutions that help protect homes, strengthen businesses and build a more resilient, efficient, sustainable energy future.

Ready to Power a Smarter World with us?

The Staff Systems Engineer, Home Standby Systems Engineering serves as a senior systems integrator for the Generac Home organization, bringing mechanical, electronic, and firmware component-level work together into a complete Home Standby product. This role partners closely with radio, controller, engine, manufacturing, and applications teams to define, document, manage, communicate, verify, and validate system-level requirements throughout new-product development and ongoing project work. You will leverage Codebeamer for requirements tracking and independently drive broad technical direction through completion.

Major Responsibilities

• Serves as the systems integrator for Home Standby products, bringing mechanical, electronic, and embedded firmware subsystems together into one complete product.




• Partners with radio, controller, engine, manufacturing, applications, and other engineering teams to define subsystem interfaces and resolve integration issues.




• Gathers customer and stakeholder needs and develops, documents, communicates, maintains, and manages system-level requirements.




• Uses Codebeamer to manage requirements.




• Defines verification and validation strategies and ensures 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.

Minimum Requirements:

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


• 8+ years of relevant engineering experience, including systems engineering or systems integration for complex products with interacting mechanical, electrical/electronic, and embedded firmware subsystems

Preferred Job Requirements:

• Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline


• INCOSE certification


• Experience with Home Standby generators, power management systems, or other complex products combining mechanical, electrical/electronic, controls, and embedded firmware subsystems


• Experience with systems engineering and requirements management in a product development environment, including the V-model.


• Codebeamer experience for requirements management, traceability, and verification tracking.


• Creo experience; comparable 3D CAD experience such as SolidWorks is also relevant.


• JIRA and Confluence experience.


• Experience with radio communications, controllers, engine control modules, manufacturing integration, or connected applications.


• Experience creating system architecture documents, including block diagrams, boundary diagrams, schematics, interconnect diagrams, and Interface Control Documents.


• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and translate technical information for varied audiences.


• Knowledge of electrical power systems, electromechanical packaging, and applicable regulatory standards.

At this time candidates who require sponsorship now or in the future cannot be considered inclusive of OPT or H1B transfer.

No 3rd parties or agencies at this time.

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While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion, the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend, or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

"We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law."