Staff Engineer, Systems

Staff Engineer, Systems

At Landis+Gyr, we don't just manage energy—we lead the transformation toward a smarter and more sustainable energy future. With a net revenue of USD 1.73 billion in FY 2024, and a presence in over 30 countries across five continents, Landis+Gyr empowers utilities and consumers to optimize energy usage through advanced metering, grid-edge intelligence, and powerful data analytics. Today, our global team of about 6,300 professionals is shaping the digital energy era—developing innovative technologies that support decarbonization, grid modernization, and real-time energy insights.

Our record USD 4.6 billion order backlog and strong book-to-bill ratio reflect long-term confidence in our mission and solutions. Join us at Landis+Gyr, where we manage energy better!

Job Summary:

The Staff Engineer, Systems serves as an expert in Firmware development life cycle, including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of firmware applications. As a Staff Engineer, this individual will be responsible for thoroughly understanding requirements and business needs provided by Product Management and other stakeholders, translating these requirements into clear and actionable work items for Development Teams. This includes ensuring that the solution delivered by Development team meets the business needs, as well as making sure there is efficient validation done to meet the quality standards for our products.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Close collaboration with Product Management - Work with Product Managers to develop expertise in product strategy, product vision, customer use cases, and how the product is expected to be used in the field.
• Analyze functional requirements to produce optimized features and other work items. Maintain high-quality standard of details in work items providing clear, complete, and testable acceptance criteria covering end-to-end scenarios.
• Ensure cross-functional alignment with other Product Owners and key stakeholders during Design and Decomp phases. Identify and manage dependencies early, ensuring consistent understanding of the solution across impacted areas and products. Work with System Architects on design and architecture of system solutions.
• Manage the Product Backlog for assigned requirements, features, user stories and provide traceability through the product lifecycle.
• Work closely with the engineering team to explain the requirement scope/features, get effort estimates and create Sprint Backlog.
• Participate regularly in team ceremonies such as daily stand-ups and sprint plannings. Provide timely support and direction on feature expectations and test scenarios.
• Participate in defect triage meetings and conduct detailed analysis of field defects when needed, with clear insights and proposed resolutions.
• Create new and maintain existing documentation as new requirements are introduced and implemented. Collaborate with Technical Writers for reviews of customer-facing documents.
• Ability to present Product Demos to both internal teams and customers.

Accountabilities:

• Strong Organizational skills to manage Requirements decomposition and backlog prioritization.
• Ability to work following processes and methodologies
• Ability to work with cross-regional teams, as well as independently, with minimal supervision

Company Values:

• Supports and adheres to Company's core values.
• Performs other duties or responsibilities as assigned or required.
• Supports and adheres to Company's Code of Conduct and Ethics Policy.
• Represents Company in a positive, professional manner when working with both internal and external customers.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree; preferably in engineering or computer science.
• At least 3 - 5 years of relevant experience required.
• Certified Product Owner Professional desired
• Basic knowledge of utility space desired
• Experience working with peers internationally
  
  Preferred Qualifications:
• Thorough understanding of business fundamentals – roles of various departments in the organization:
  Product Management, Engineering, Project Management.
• Critical thinking, communication and analytical skills
• Good working knowledge of Azure Dev Ops/TFS…