Lead Systems Engineer

Kapsch is one of Austria's most successful global technology companies. With its comprehensive ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) portfolio, Kapsch is actively addressing the challenges of the present and the future with intelligent mobility solutions in a wide range of application areas. As a family-owned company founded in 1892 and headquartered in Vienna, Kapsch can look back on 130 years of experience with the future.

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As Lead Systems Engineer, you'll hold the highest level of technical ownership on our Systems Engineering track, joining a dispersed, cross-disciplinary team of hardware, software, and electrical engineers. You'll own how the pieces come together as one working system — roadside hardware, embedded devices, applications, and back-office software — from bid phase through integration, commissioning, and operational handoff on high-visibility tolling and roadside infrastructure programs that continue to expand as the toll road increases in capacity, capabilities and integrates new technologies.

This is a role for someone who wants to be the technical face of the client relationship, build trust with customers over the life of a program, and own the requirements baseline from the first conversation through final acceptance. You'll translate customer needs into clear, buildable, and verifiable requirements; manage expectations and scope as the solution evolves; and lead difficult technical conversations.

You'll also hold the seams between hardware and software where most programs get into trouble, maintain the end-to-end technical view of the solution, and step in to drive the technical path forward whenever the team hits a roadblock.

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact —Lead technical discussions, understand the client's business and operational objectives, communicate tradeoffs clearly, manage expectations, and navigate difficult technical or scope conversations with professionalism and sound judgment.
• Own the requirements baseline end-to-end — lead requirements elicitation, analysis, decomposition, specification, validation, traceability, and change control from the first customer conversation through final acceptance. Translate customer needs and contractual requirements into clear, testable, and achievable system requirements, while identifying gaps, ambiguities, dependencies, and risks before they become program issues.
• Manage requirements and scope as the solution evolves — establish and maintain requirements traceability across hardware, software, electrical, integration, and verification activities.
• Own the integrated solution end-to-end — from bid-phase sales support, proposal review, and requirement gap analysis, through hardware and software design decisions, to integration, commissioning, and operational handoff.
• Overall responsibility for the technical implementation - including installation/implementation phase ensuring the system is delivered efficiently to required quality.
• Define and control the interfaces between roadside hardware (sensors, cameras, controllers, gantry equipment, power) and the software layer (applications, databases, back-office systems) — specifying protocols, data flows, timing, dependencies, and failure behavior so subsystems perform as one system.
• Support integration, verification, and validation — support the test and commissioning strategy, drive FAT/SAT, and lead troubleshooting where hardware, firmware, and software meet in the field.
• Design and maintain the full solution architecture — systems, interfaces, protocols, databases, and applications — while maintaining end-to-end awareness of where bottlenecks exist, where…