Systems Engineer I

Job Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary translator between customer needs and engineering execution — decomposing customer requests, primarily software-related, into clear, actionable system and software requirements.
• Author and maintain functional specifications, software requirements specifications, and theories of operation for DoD printer systems and subsystems.
• Work closely with the software engineering team to ensure requirements are well-defined, unambiguous, and implementable, and serve as the point of contact for requirements clarification throughout development.
• Facilitate requirements reviews with cross-functional stakeholders including software, firmware, electrical, and mechanical teams to validate completeness and consistency.
• Define and maintain system-level architecture documentation, including hardware-firmware-software interface definitions and behavioral descriptions.
• Translate product marketing inputs and customer use cases into structured requirements using established systems engineering practices.
• Support verification and validation activities by developing acceptance criteria and traceability matrices linked to system requirements.
• Manage requirements lifecycle using Jira and Ease Requirements, ensuring traceability from customer need through design, implementation, and test.
• Stay abreast of industry trends in embedded systems, software architectures, and inkjet/DoD printing technology.

Job Requirements

• Hands-on experience with embedded firmware development (C/C++, RTOS environments) and/or electronic hardware design.
• Demonstrated experience with hardware-firmware co-design, PCB bring-up, and debugging at the hardware-software interface.
• Demonstrated experience with embedded firmware and/or software development processes; direct coding experience not required but ability to communicate fluently with software teams is essential.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering.
• Minimum 3–4 years of experience in an engineering individual contributor role within an industrial environment; 1–2 years of systems engineering experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience writing system specifications, software requirements, or theories of operation in a hardware/software product development environment.
• Experience with SysML/UML modeling is preferred.
• Strong ability to take ambiguous customer or stakeholder inputs and translate them into structured, actionable requirements.
• Experience in all elements of systems engineering: requirements definition through design, integration, verification, and validation (V&V).
• Proficiency with Jira and Ease Requirements for requirements management and agile project tracking is required.
• Experience using quality tools (FMEA, 5 Whys, etc.).
• Knowledge of marking and coding equipment, especially using drop-on-demand inkjet technology, is highly desirable.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Able to define a path to solve complex problems, share that vision, and support the team for execution.
• Innovative, autonomous, and able to motivate others.