Engineer - Systems

Overview

At Oshkosh, we build, serve and protect people and communities around the world by designing and manufacturing some of the toughest specialty trucks and access equipment. We employ over 18,000 team members united by a common purpose. Our engineering and product innovation help keep soldiers and firefighters safe, support community clean‑up, and enable everyday tasks. The Systems Engineer will participate in engineering activities to ensure successful product development, timely execution of programs, and customer satisfaction.

• Draft, review, and release requirements specification documents, including defining the requirements and verification baseline.
• Support requirements, design, and verification team projects and coordinate regularly with key partners to maintain program objectives.
• Lead the creation of user need requirements and decompose them into system and subsystem requirements.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with multiple disciplines to identify new, obsolete or adjusted regulatory standards (e.g., FDA or IEC).
• Review and approve system and subsystem requirement documents to ensure user needs are properly decomposed and intent is met.
• Ensure logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions.
• Establish system architecture and CONOPS, perform system trades and analysis, flow down architecture and CONOPS into requirements and interfaces, and support verification planning.
• Use communication skills to work across the organization and customer/user community to ensure consensus and understanding of requirements and solutions.
• Be responsible for the completion of a project or part of a project of moderate complexity on time; may manage overall project schedule and budget.
• Manage multiple priorities and coordinate with internal and external project teams on advanced control development from concept through production.
• Author requirements documentation in tools such as Magic Draw and Jama and coordinate release through the approval/review process.
• Establish and manage requirements traceability and compliance.
• Prepare system engineering program and design review process (SRR, PDR, CDR, FRR, etc.).
• Build consensus, manage change, and convey progress to Senior Management.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Accredited bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field with internship experience or six (6) or more months of related work experience.

• Accredited bachelor’s degree in systems engineering or comparable.
• Familiarity with tools such as Magic Draw, Jama Connect or similar for requirements management.
• Experience with SysML or UML modeling languages for model‑based systems engineering (MBSE).
• Experience with larger OEM processes and procedures.

• Internal contacts:
  Communication with peers and others; gathering factual information, including sensitive or confidential data.
• External contacts:
  Limited external contact to gather information, answer queries or ask for assistance.
• Communication skills:
  Read, write and comprehend instructions and reports; interpret regulations and technical materials.
• Decision‑making:
  Make decisions within standard policy and procedures.
• Problem solving:
  Structured work within policy limits.
• Supervisory/managerial:
  Instruct, schedule, and review work of others; act as a lead worker.

Physical demands: frequent standing, walking, sitting, reaching, hearing, talking, typing; occasional driving, fine dexterity, manual dexterity, upper‑extremity repetitive motion, lifting or carrying 25 lbs.

Non‑physical demands: analysis, reasoning, communication, math, reading, sustained mental activity, writing.

Environmental demands: work alone, frequent task changes, tedious work, occasional high‑volume public contact; routine shift hours with occasional overtime, weekend, or shift rotation.

Pay range: $64,500 – $103,500 across U.S. locations. Benefits include a competitive total rewards package, supportive people‑first culture, and growth opportunities.

Oshkosh Corporation is a merit‑based equal opportunity employer. Job opportunities are open to all qualified individuals. Selection decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic.