Staff Systems Engineer - Home Standby Installation

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

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.

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.