Systems Engineer - North America

Systems Engineer

You will become one of our key contributors who guide and foster innovation by analyzing, designing, and implementing leading edge systems that span various market segments including the transportation market.

As a Systems Engineer you will be actively involved in the end-to-end systems analysis lifecycle of complex communications and technology projects; giving technical input from eliciting user/product needs, requirements capture/management/traceability, through to test & verification planning for systems deployments.

With oversight from a Senior Systems Engineer, you will help analyze and develop communications solutions and input into the communications technology roadmap keeping the business at the forefront of industry trends. You will provide technical contribution to the planning and implementation of projects, bids and proposals including involvement in pre-sales and sales activities, requirements capture and deployment of proof of concepts.

The role includes championing systems analysis best practice in MA and working closely with the UK Systems Engineering team to continuously improve the practice and processes. This includes proactively contributing to knowledge dissemination by, for example, being a technology evangelist, learning and being coached, etc. fostering links to other technical disciplines across the team.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computing, Computer Science, Information Systems, or other highly quantitative field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience analyzing and implementing systems with hardware, embedded software, application software and mechanical components.
• An understanding of communications systems in transport or related industry.
• An understanding and appreciation of requirements capture, management, traceability processes and the importance thereof.
• Evidence of involvement in testing & validation of distributed electronic and software systems.
• Using in-depth product and/or industry knowledge to provide specialized technical application knowledge and expertise to sales and business development teams and the client through technical presentations and product demonstrations.
• LAN/WAN networking and IT Network Operations experience.
• Experience of working with Linux servers (preferably Debian derived), including set-up and administration of common services, routing and IP
• Experience with programming skills, including working with version control tools.

Desirable & Development Areas

• Rail or other Transport industry experience
• Technical sales involvement would be an advantage
• Experience with wireless network deployment, wireless LAN controllers and an appreciation of networking in a dynamic environment
• Experience of automation platforms such as Saltstack, Puppet, Ansible etc.
• Experience of programming in Python and/or Bash
• Experience of working in virtualized and cloud-based environments
• Experience in the rail vehicle environment with an appreciation of rolling stock regulations. In particular, evidence of defining and specifying systems to be installed onto rail vehicles would be a distinct advantage
• Some understanding of US rail/bus market would be desirable
• Extensive customer facing experience in a technical or product capacity
• Professional qualifications in communications systems (e.g. CCNA).
• Experience with requirements management and lifecycle management tools

Motion Applied are a medium-sized tech firm spun out of McLaren Group. We're looking for people who will thrive in a non-hierarchical, growth-orientated company, self-starters who are flexible and somewhat entrepreneurial in their approach.

Motion Applied are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) and promote DEI in all we do.