Software Systems Engineer

About the role

Determine and document the requirements that a design must satisfy. This position requires on-site work at Gentex facilities and is not eligible for remote work.

Responsibilities

• Consistently execute the processes for requirements engineering.
• Provide technical input to peers within and outside the requirements engineering team.
• Communicate work status to requirements engineering team and project team.
• Solicit technical input from peers within and outside the requirements engineering team.
• Collect requirements from external sources like regulations and customer specifications.
• Collect requirements from internal sources like engineering users, product validation labs, and manufacturing.
• Refine the requirements collected into a level of detail relevant to designers and verifiers.
• Review requirements developed by other engineers to ensure compliance with standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

How you’ll work

• Foster teamwork by building effective partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Communicate effectively by developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey clear understanding, taking into account the unique needs of different audiences.
• Demonstrate personal accountability by keeping promises, honoring commitments, accepting responsibility for actions, and assuming responsibility during problems, crises, and issues.
• Solve problems by defining them, determining their cause, identifying, prioritizing, and selecting alternatives for a solution, and implementing a solution.
• Maintain a high level of confidentiality, honesty, and integrity with respect to company matters.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures, safety regulations, and company safety policies, and safely perform all duties, including promoting a safe workplace.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Systems, Electrical, Computer or Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• 5 years technical experience in systems or software development or 2 years of experience with requirements management as primary responsibility.
• Proficiency interpreting complex technical specifications, data sheets, and schematics.

Skills

Experience that will help:

• Creating scripts.
• Requirements management tools such as DOORS, Jama, Polarion, Capterra, Visure.
• Project management tools such as Jira, Rally, Azure DevOps.
• Systems engineering principles (full lifecycle engineering; INCOSE guidelines).
• Embedded software development (test, architecture, C or other coding).
• Electrical hardware development (microprocessors, power management).
• Digital communication buses (CAN, LIN, ARINC 429, Ethernet, RS-485).
• Processes conforming to standards such as ASPICE, DO-178C, DO-254.
• Functional safety development satisfying ISO 26262 objectives.
• Cybersecurity development satisfying ISO 21434 objectives.