Systems Engineer

Actalent; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Actalent is seeking a Systems Engineer to lead end-to-end systems engineering across a portfolio of embedded systems. You will define architecture, manage requirements, and coordinate across multidisciplinary teams to ensure verified and compliant system capabilities.

The role emphasizes lifecycle engineering, interface control, and collaboration with software, hardware, and manufacturing teams, including participation in design reviews and TIMs.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in full lifecycle systems engineering for embedded systems.
• Ability to operate in fixed-price, schedule-driven environments while supporting Agile development.
• Hands-on experience defining, refining, and maintaining traceable requirements baselines.
• Solid background in high-speed serial communication technologies and mixed hardware/software architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end systems engineering activities across multiple related systems, including architecture definition and verification planning.
• Establish, decompose, and maintain system-level requirements with full traceability to customer specs.
• Coordinate execution across internal teams and external partners, ensuring alignment of interfaces and schedules.
• Develop and maintain system artifacts such as ICDs, data flow diagrams, and verification matrices.
• Lead TIMs, cross-functional design reviews, and supplier assessments with focus on verification readiness.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, test, manufacturing, and program management to ensure cohesive system behavior.
• Provide leadership in configuration control, requirements management, and verification processes.
• Drive lifecycle systems engineering from concept through transition to manufacturing.
• Apply data-driven decision-making to manage complex system interactions and integration challenges.
• Use Jira to manage workflows, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and cross-team coordination.
• Mentor junior engineers to mature systems engineering practices.

Skills

Systems engineering

Embedded systems

Requirements management

Interface control

Lifecycle engineering

Hardware/software integration

High-speed serial comms

Jira

Agile development

Tools

Jira

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Systems Engineer

Job Description

This role leads system architecture definition, requirements development, and end-to-end integration and verification across a portfolio of complex, interconnected embedded systems. The Systems Engineer ensures system-level consistency, performance, and compliance with program objectives while coordinating execution across multidisciplinary engineering teams in schedule-driven, often fixed-price environments. The position focuses on interface control, lifecycle systems engineering, and technical leadership in regulated or mission-critical settings, with a strong emphasis on embedded systems, hardware/software integration, and high-speed communication technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end systems engineering activities across multiple related systems, including system architecture definition, requirements development, interface management, risk assessment, verification planning, and formal design reviews such as SRR, PDR, CDR, PRR and TRR.
• Establish, decompose, and maintain system-level requirements with full traceability to customer specifications, derived constraints, verification methods, and subsystem allocations.
• Coordinate technical execution across internal teams and external partners, ensuring consistent system architecture, controlled interfaces, aligned schedules, and delivery of verified, compliant system capabilities.
• Develop and maintain key system artifacts, including system block diagrams, interface control documents (ICDs), data flow diagrams, verification matrices, integration strategies, and detailed test plans.
• Lead and facilitate technical interchange meetings (TIMs), cross-functional design reviews, peer reviews, and supplier technical assessments with a strong focus on verification readiness and overall system completeness.
• Collaborate closely with software, hardware, test engineering, manufacturing, configuration management, and program management teams to ensure cohesive system behavior and robust lifecycle verification.
• Provide leadership in configuration control, requirements management, and verification processes, supporting continuous improvement initiatives and adherence to industry quality standards such as AS9100 or equivalent.
• Drive full lifecycle systems engineering for embedded systems, from concept and architecture through detailed design, integration, verification, and transition to manufacturing.
• Apply data-driven decision-making to manage complex system interactions, interface control, and hardware/software integration challenges.
• Use tools such as Jira to manage program and engineering workflows, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, reporting, and cross-team coordination.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, helping to mature systems engineering practices and foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Support alignment of Agile development practices with fixed-price, schedule-driven program commitments and contractual deliverables.
• Contribute to environmental qualification planning and testing strategies in accordance with relevant standards when applicable.
• Engage with stakeholders, including customers and leadership, to clearly present technical concepts, status, risks, and trade-offs.

Essential Skills

• Strong proficiency in full lifecycle systems engineering for embedded systems, including architecture definition, requirements development, integration, verification, and transition to manufacturing.
• Ability to operate effectively in fixed-price, schedule-driven environments while supporting Agile development practices.
• Hands-on experience defining, refining, and maintaining traceable requirements baselines, including system modeling, analysis, and verification aligned to program commitments.
• Solid background in high-speed serial communication technologies and mixed hardware/software architectures, including integration of embedded processors and high-speed communication interfaces.
• Demonstrated capability to support system architecture definition, decomposition, design reviews, and configuration-controlled updates throughout the hardware/software lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of embedded systems, hardware/software integration, interface control, and data-driven decision-making across complex system interactions.
• Experience managing program and engineering workflows using tools such as Jira for sprint planning, backlog grooming, reporting, and cross-team coordination.
• Systems engineering experience with a focus on requirements development and lifecycle systems engineering.
• Electrical or hardware background with the ability to work closely with hardware and manufacturing teams.