System Engineer Skill Level 3

Avid Technology Professionals; Maryland; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Avid Technology Professionals seeks a senior Systems Engineer to define operations concepts, document system requirements, and support lifecycle activities from conception through deployment.

The role emphasizes high-level design, performance interfaces, and comprehensive test planning. Collaboration with customers and project teams ensures solutions satisfy requirements and align with the architectural vision.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering; ABET or equivalent coursework required.
• Degrees must cover differential and integral calculus and 5 of the 18 listed areas.
• Relevant engineering experience across lifecycle from conception to deployment.

Responsibilities

• Define and document concepts of operations, requirements, and use cases.
• Perform high-level system design and specify performance/interface requirements.
• Develop installation, integration, and acceptance test plans.
• Coordinate with customers and project teams to ensure solutions meet requirements.
• Communicate a shared technical and architectural vision for product teams.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Lifecycle engineering

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Engineering or related field

Doctoral degree in Engineering or related field

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 plus 10 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree plus 8 years of relevant experience, or a Doctoral degree plus 6 years of relevant experience.

Degree must be in Engineering or a relevant technical field (for example, computer science, mathematics, or physics).

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).