Senior Systems Engineer

Department: WAT Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Chester, CT

Compensation: $117,000 - $144,000 / year

Whelen Aviation Technologies (WAT) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to help establish and grow a new Systems Engineering function within our organization. This is an opportunity for an experienced systems engineer to have a significant impact on how we develop, document, verify, and manage complex aviation products.

The Senior Systems Engineer will work across Electrical Engineering, Firmware, Mechanical Engineering, Test, Certifications and Product Management to establish and improve systems engineering practices throughout the product development lifecycle. This role will help guide engineering teams in requirements management, system architecture, traceability, verification and validation, and engineering processes
.

The ideal candidate is someone who enjoys building processes, bringing structure to complex engineering problems, and working collaboratively with engineering teams. This person should be comfortable operating in a developing environment where the Systems Engineering function and processes are still being established.

What You'll Do in This Role

This position is an opportunity to build something new
. WAT is establishing Systems Engineering as a dedicated engineering function, and this individual will help define what that function looks like and how it supports our engineering organization.

The successful candidate will help move WAT toward a more structured approach to requirements to architecture to design to implementation to verification to validation
, while working closely with our existing engineering teams.

We are looking for someone who can both develop the process and work directly with engineers to make it practical and effective
. The role will require a balance of technical knowledge, process development, communication, and leadership.

Success will include:

• Establishing a consistent Systems Engineering process across WAT.
• Improving the quality and completeness of product and system requirements.
• Establishing effective requirements traceability.
• Helping engineering teams identify system-level gaps earlier in development.
• Improving alignment between requirements, design, and verification activities.
• Providing engineering teams with practical tools, templates, and guidance.
• Building Systems Engineering into WAT's overall product development process.
• Becoming a trusted technical resource for Engineering Leadership and development teams.

• Help establish and develop the Systems Engineering function within Whelen Aviation Technologies.
• Develop and implement processes for system requirements management, requirements traceability, change management, and verification/validation
  .
• Work with engineering teams to develop clear, complete, testable, and traceable system and product requirements.
• Establish and maintain requirements traceability from customer and system requirements through design, implementation, and verification
  .
• Help engineering teams define system-level requirements and allocate requirements to Electrical, Firmware, Mechanical, and other disciplines.
• Support development of system architectures, interfaces, functional decompositions, and system-level design documentation
  .
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions to identify system interfaces, dependencies, assumptions, and potential gaps early in the development process.
• Establish guidelines and best practices for requirements development and management.
• Work with project and engineering teams to ensure requirements are incorporated into project planning and development activities.
• Support verification and validation planning
  , including development of verification methods and acceptance criteria.
• Help establish and maintain traceability between requirements, design outputs, test procedures, and test results.
• Participate in design reviews and provide systems engineering guidance to development teams.
  
  Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and risks within system requirements and product definitions.
• Support engineering change management and assess the system-level impact of proposed design changes.
• Help develop and implement Systems Engineering templates, standards, processes, and training.
• Work with Engineering Leadership to establish appropriate systems engineering practices that can scale with the organization.
• Provide coaching and guidance to engineers on systems engineering…