System Engineer Skill Level 0

Avid Technology Professionals; Maryland; On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Avid Technology Professionals in Maryland seeks a systems engineer to help define concepts of operations, document requirements, and develop use cases for system development.

The role emphasizes high-level system design, performance/interface specifications, and planning installation, integration, and acceptance tests. Entry is with a Bachelor's degree or degree plus 1 year of experience, with ABET coursework where applicable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a relevant technical field.
• ABET accreditation is required or specified coursework is needed.
• Experience within engineering systems lifecycle is preferred for higher levels.

Responsibilities

• Define and document concepts of operations and system requirements.
• Develop use cases to support system development and testing plans.
• Assess current processes to ensure they support strategic objectives.
• Communicate a shared technical and architectural vision for product teams.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Use-case modeling

Education

ABET-accredited engineering program

Degree in a relevant technical field with 1 year experience

Job description

Perform systems engineering functions, including defining and documenting concept of operations, operational/system requirements, and use cases to support system development; performing high-level system design; specifying system/component performance and interface requirements; and developing installation, integration, and acceptance test plans. Continuously assess existing organizational processes and work products to ensure they best facilitate strategic and tactical efforts. Coordinate with customers, project teams, and related organizations to ensure solutions satisfy the requirements. Define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision for the solutions developed by the product teams.

Bachelor's degree in Engineering and no experience. OR (U) With a degree in a relevant technical field (for example, computer science, mathematics, or physics), entry is with a Bachelor's degree plus 1 year of relevant experience.

For all of the above degrees, if program is not ABET accredited, it must include specified coursework.*

• Specified coursework includes courses in differential and integral calculus and 5 of the following 18 areas: (a) statics or dynamics, (b) strength of materials/stress-strain relationships, (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics, (d) thermodynamics, (e) electromagnetic fields, (f) nature and properties of materials/relating particle and aggregate structure to properties, (g) solid state electronics, (h) microprocessor applications, (i) computer systems, (j) signal processing, (k) digital design, (l) systems and control theory, (m) circuits or generalized circuits, (n) communication systems, (o) power systems, (p) computer networks, (q) software development, (r) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, or soil mechanics.

Relevant experience must be in engineering systems over their lifecycle (for example, conception, design & development, testing, production, distribution/deployment, operation, maintenance & support, decommissioning).