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Systems Engineer 3
Sunrise Systems Inc
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Staff / Principal
1 week ago
- Six Sigma
- Risk Management
- FMEA
- Technical Writing
- Agile
1 week ago
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Job Title: Systems Engineer 3
Job Id: 26-04814
Location: San Diego, CA
Duration: 12 Months Contract
Position Type: Hourly Contract Position (W2 only)
Job Description
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- The Senior Systems Engineer serves as a key technical leader throughout the product lifecycle, translating customer and stakeholder needs into system requirements, managing technical risk, coordinating system integration activities, and ensuring successful verification and validation.
- This individual partners closely with cross-functional teams to drive product development, resolve complex system-level challenges, and continuously improve engineering processes and product performance.
Key Responsibilities
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- Lead system-level engineering activities throughout the product lifecycle, from concept through launch and sustaining.
- Translate customer and stakeholder needs into clear, testable, and traceable system and product requirements.
- Lead requirements development, management, and traceability activities across complex hardware, software, and integrated systems.
- Plan, facilitate, and document system-level risk assessments, hazard analyses, and design reviews to ensure risks are identified and appropriately mitigated.
- Lead system integration planning and execution, identifying and resolving system-level issues throughout development and sustaining activities.
- Own verification and validation strategy, planning, coordination, execution oversight, and traceability to ensure product requirements are met.
- Develop and execute reliability planning activities and support data-driven product quality improvements.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration among Reliability, Statistics, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Clinical, Marketing, and Operations teams.
- Serve as a technical leader on project core teams, helping identify technical risks, resource needs, and critical path activities required to achieve project milestones.
- Investigate and resolve complex system behavior issues, product performance concerns, and technical challenges across development and commercialized products.
- Mentor and guide less experienced engineers in systems engineering processes, tools, and best practices.
- Identify, champion, and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance engineering effectiveness, product quality, and development efficiency.
- Apply Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodologies and engineering best practices across all projects.
Qualifications
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- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related technical discipline. A postgraduate degree is preferred.
- 3-5+ years of relevant engineering experience, or an equivalent combination of advanced education and engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading systems engineering activities for complex products or integrated systems.
- Strong understanding of the product development lifecycle from concept through launch.
- Experience with requirements development, requirements management, and requirements traceability.
- Experience planning and executing system-level verification and validation activities.
- Experience leading risk management activities, including FMEA, hazard analysis, and risk mitigation planning.
- Familiarity with system integration, reliability engineering, design reviews, and technical problem-solving.
- Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across multiple engineering disciplines and business functions.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently while providing technical leadership within cross-functional teams.
- Strong attention to detail.
Preferred
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- Experience developing medical devices or products within a regulated industry.
- Experience leading systems engineering efforts on software-enabled or connected products.
- Experience with requirements management tools and model-based systems engineering concepts.
- Experience with statistical methods, Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), reliability engineering, or design optimization techniques.
- Experience driving technical leadership within cross-functional product development teams.
- Experience working in Agile or hybrid product development environments.
Leadership Expectations
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- Successful Senior Systems Engineers are recognized as technical leaders who:
- Drive systems thinking across complex product development efforts.
- Influence technical direction through data-driven decision making.
- Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks.
- Build strong cross-functional partnerships.
- Mentor and develop other engineers.
- Champion engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
- Balance customer needs, business objectives, technical feasibility, and regulatory requirements to deliver successful products.
Compensation: The hourly rate for this position is between $74.00-$76.00 per hour.
Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include [geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate].
Qualified candidates please send your word format updated resume at the earliest to Pavan:Pavan.p@sunrisesys.com [732-395-4444].
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Systems Engineer 3 · Sunrise Systems Inc