Staff Systems Architect

Technical Focus

You will contribute to the development, integration, and improvement of vehicle software and controls systems that support safe, reliable, and high-performing heavy-duty transit buses. This includes helping define control strategies, software behavior, system interfaces, diagnostics, and overall functionality across vehicle features and subsystems. The role requires sound engineering judgment, strong cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to connect software and controls decisions to vehicle performance, serviceability, manufacturability, and long-term product support.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL

• Lead technical evaluation and trade-off studies across software architecture, controls development, software processes, cyber security, functional safety, toolchains, diagnostics, and vehicle integration to drive robust product decisions
• Play a lead role in interpreting customer, regulatory, internal, and supplier requirements, deploying actionable system requirements, and resolving incompatibilities across hardware and software domains
• Define and maintain system, subsystem, and interface architectures, including allocation of requirements to hardware, software, and controls functions
• Establish and improve software creation and management processes, development workflows, and engineering operating cadence to increase product quality, traceability, execution speed, and organizational effectiveness
• Assess designs, plans, and implementation strategies of self and others using structured systems thinking, risk analysis, verification planning, and sound engineering judgment
• Guide cyber security, functional safety, and verification strategies by identifying risks early, defining mitigations, and ensuring requirements can be validated through test and analysis
• Lead and influence large, collocated cross-functional teams working in-person across engineering disciplines to solve complex vehicle and product challenges, while raising technical rigor, decision quality, and team capability
• Collaborate and iterate with mechanical, electrical, controls, manufacturing, validation, quality, supplier, and service teams to ensure architectures and solutions are practical, manufacturable, and supportable in the field

SCOPE OF THE ROLE

• Autonomy: Ability to work independently with review at critical points and may direct the activities of others. Accountable for results that may impact the entire department
• Technically Minded: Serve as an expert in the field and key advisor. Provide, guide and use professional concepts in developing resolution to critical issues. Apply extensive knowledge of theories, practices and design matters. Lead the application of existing principles and guide development of new ideas
• Time Management: Work is completed at a highly accelerated pace due to familiarity with subject matter and execution experience
• Communication: Collaborate and teach up, down and across the organization to help raise the skills and knowledge of the GILLIG team. Create formal networks involving coordination among groups. Convey advanced information and persuade diverse stakeholders
• Complexity: Work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. Require conceptual thinking to understand advanced issues and implications. Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Recognized internally as a subject matter expert
• Quality & Standards: Technical requirements, architectures, interface definitions, software and controls processes, and other engineering documentation are accurate and complete. Released solutions are cost effective, manufacturable, serviceable, secure, safe, meet performance objectives, and satisfy customer and regulatory requirements

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor or advanced degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field
• Minimum 8 years of experience within the Engineering industry
• Experience in automotive, commercial vehicle, and/or heavy-duty vehicle product development required
• Fluent with requirements management, documentation control, configuration management, and revision/version management. Experience with a configure-to-order product and modular architecture management a plus
• Experience making technical trade-offs in high-risk, high-value domains such as software architecture, controls development, software processes, cyber security, functional safety, software tools/toolchains, diagnostics, and related vehicle integration topics
• Experience leading large, collocated engineering teams across multiple disciplines and aligning stakeholders around architecture, execution, stability, and diagnostics decisions
• Experience working with major component suppliers, engineering service suppliers, testing suppliers, software partners, and product validation engineers
• Strong understanding of systems engineering methods including requirements decomposition, interface management, risk management, verification planning, issue resolution, and the ability to translate technical direction into effective team processes and organizational execution
• Experience with hands-on troubleshooting, product assembly, prototyping, testing, and validation activities (on site and at remote locations), including strong practical mechanical skills
• Enhanced product-facing technical skills combined with strong process and organizational acumen, with demonstrated ability to guide initiatives that improve product stability, diagnostics capability, and cross-functional execution
• Working knowledge of vehicle mechanical systems and the ability to connect software and controls decisions to packaging, integration, serviceability, and field performance