Senior System Integration Engineer

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.