Senior Systems Engineer

About the role

This hybrid role (3 days on-site, 2 days remote) in Raleigh, NC provides advanced engineering support for critical power and power conversion products and accessories across their lifecycle. The Senior Systems Engineer applies independent technical judgment to complex sustaining issues involving product reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, configuration control, and engineering change implementation, while collaborating with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, service, and product management teams to maintain product performance and availability.

Responsibilities

• Provide sustaining engineering support for released electrical and electromechanical power conversion products and accessories.
• Independently analyze complex technical issues related to product performance, reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, and quality.
• Evaluate, document, and support implementation of engineering changes for released products.
• Review and maintain advanced engineering documentation including drawings, specifications, and bills of material.
• Support component obsolescence management, including technical evaluation of replacement components or design alternatives.
• Perform testing on products and components to confirm performance meets specifications.
• Support product VAVE (Value Analysis/Value Engineering) activities, including cost-reduction initiatives, component alternates, and design-for-manufacture improvements while maintaining performance and compliance.
• Provide technical guidance to cross-functional teams for manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and service-related initiatives.
• Participate in root cause analysis and corrective action activities for complex field or factory issues.
• Support product requalification or validation activities resulting from design or component changes.
• Document technical analyses and recommendations within internal issue tracking systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution with a minimum of 3 years of experience supporting electrical or electromechanical products, or
• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution with a minimum of 2 years of experience supporting electrical or electromechanical products.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting released products in a sustaining, lifecycle, manufacturing support, or reliability engineering role.
• Demonstrated experience independently evaluating engineering changes and technical tradeoffs for complex systems.
• Experience reviewing and maintaining engineering documentation such as drawings, specifications, and bills of material.
• Knowledge of power electronics systems and principles like AC/DC, DC-DC, and DC/AC converters.
• PCBA/circuit creation, analysis, and troubleshooting to the component level.
• Proficiency in the use of measurement devices including oscilloscopes, network analyzers, and power analyzers.
• Understanding of design evaluation techniques such as reliability analysis, statistical tolerance stack-up, and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA).
• Demonstrated knowledge of engineering processes and experience with issue tracking software such as Jira.
• Good communication and presentation skills with a collaborative orientation.
• Experience interacting with global engineering teams.

Skills

• Familiarity with common tools, equipment (oscilloscope, power analyzers, meters), processes, and PPE to safely work in a high-power lab (480V) environment.
• Self-motivated, self-managed, team-oriented, proactive, detail-oriented, task-oriented, and able to overcome obstacles to meet schedule requirements.

Pay

Expected annual salary range: $94,000 – $138,000; actual offers are determined by candidate skills, experience, qualifications, and market/business considerations.