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Please Note: This position requires primarily onsite work, with two potential work locations near Rockford or Aurora, IL. Candidates must currently be within a reasonable commuting distance of at least one location. At this time, this role is not open to candidates who require relocation and employment sponsorship is not available.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop, manage, and maintain product-level system requirements throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Translate customer, business, product, and regulatory needs into clear, testable, and traceable engineering requirements.
  • Define and maintain system architecture, subsystem interfaces, inputs, outputs, and interactions.
  • Lead system integration activities and proactively identify and manage technical integration risks.
  • Serve as a technical leader across mechanical, electrical, controls, and other engineering disciplines.
  • Lead system-level technical decisions and evaluate tradeoffs involving performance, cost, reliability, manufacturability, and compliance.
  • Drive alignment between engineering teams on critical technical decisions and system interfaces.
  • Own system-level Design Verification Plans and Reports (DVP&R) and ensure validation activities demonstrate full product performance.
  • Review subsystem validation plans and ensure alignment with overall system requirements.
  • Lead system-level design reviews, integration discussions, and technical problem-solving activities.
  • Communicate system status, technical risks, integration challenges, and recommended solutions to engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Lead root cause analysis of system-level issues and coordinate cross-functional corrective actions.
  • Capture lessons learned and continuously improve systems engineering practices.
  • Provide systems engineering ownership throughout the full NPD lifecycle, including concept and feasibility, design, validation, and ongoing product lifecycle improvements.
Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience in product development, systems engineering, or a closely related engineering function.
  • Strong understanding of system architecture, requirements definition, system integration, and verification/validation.
  • Experience working across multiple engineering disciplines within complex product development environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to understand subsystem interactions and evaluate product performance at the overall system level.
  • Strong technical problem-solving, root cause analysis, and decision-making capabilities.
  • Ability to evaluate engineering tradeoffs involving performance, cost, reliability, manufacturability, and compliance.
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across engineering teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience leading system-level product development efforts.
  • Experience with requirements management and traceability tools.
  • Experience developing and/or owning DVP&R or similar system-level verification and validation processes.
  • Experience working with regulated products and applicable compliance standards.
  • Experience supporting products that integrate mechanical, electrical, controls, or similar multidisciplinary technologies.

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