System Engineer Skill Level 3

Responsibilities

• Define and document concept of operations, operational/system requirements, and use cases to support system development
• Perform high-level system design
• Specify system/component performance and interface requirements
• Develop installation, integration, and acceptance test plans
• Continuously assess existing organizational processes and work products to ensure they best facilitate strategic and tactical efforts
• Cook up with customers, project teams, and related organizations to ensure solutions satisfy the requirements
• Define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision for the solutions developed by the product teams

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering plus 10 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree plus 8 years of relevant experience, or a Doctoral degree plus 6 years of relevant experience
• Relevant experience must be in engineering systems over their lifecycle (for example, conception, design & development, testing, production, distribution/deployment, operation, maintenance & support, decommissioning)

Qualifications

• Must have a degree in Engineering or a relevant technical field (for example, computer science, mathematics, or physics)
• If program is not ABET accredited, it must include specified coursework
• Specified coursework includes courses in differential and integral calculus and 5 of the following 18 areas:
1. (a) statics or dynamics
2. (b) strength of materials/stress-strain relationships
3. (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics
4. (d) thermodynamics
5. (e) electromagnetic fields
6. (f) nature and properties of materials/relating particle and aggregate structure to properties
7. (g) solid state electronics
8. (h) microprocessor applications
9. (i) computer systems
10. (j) signal processing
11. (k) digital design
12. (l) systems and control theory
13. (m) circuits or generalized circuits
14. (n) communication systems
15. (o) power systems
16. (p) computer networks
17. (q) software development
18. (r) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, or soil mechanics