Liquid Robotics is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager to lead and manage a team of Systems Engineers in the development of autonomous ocean robots, specifically the Wave Glider platform and associated payloads and peripherals, to address critical problems for defense, commercial, and science customers.
Requirements
- Demonstrates broad engineering knowledge applicable to robotics development for maritime environments.
- Able to apply experience in mechanical, electrical, and/or software; strong understanding of how the various aspects of a system affect and influence one another.
- Applies excellent problem solving and technical abilities to complex problems; able to guide a team in executing root cause analysis and problem resolutions.
- Experience with the Liquid Robotics Wave Glider system is a strong discriminator.
Responsibilities
- Manage the systems engineering work within the company.
- Lead efforts to translate customer and business needs into viable, proven solutions within time and funding limits.
- Define schedules, budgets, and solutions, both for customer proposals and internal development.
- Team with engineers from various disciplines to manage (create, modify, decompose and derive) system and subsystem requirements and interfaces.
- Define and refine system models and architectures.
- Create test plans and procedures that effectively validate and verify implementations; support execution of tests, develop test reports.
- Develop and execute trade studies and prototype analyses.
Other
- Lead, guide, and develop a team of Systems Engineers of varying skills and skill levels.
- Develop risk analyses and mitigations.
- Prepare and release product documentation.
- Recommend best solutions.
- Work with various engineering disciplines to resolve cross-discipline systems issues.
- Guide others in best practices of structured systems engineering, including requirements, architecture, design, and test.
- Define and improve engineering processes, procedures, and tools.
- Own the Systems Engineering process, including process improvement and adherence.
- Stays aware of technology advancements.
- Applies knowledge across a variety of solution spaces.
- Possesses excellent communication and interpersonal skills, is able to effectively exchange information with technical teams, nontechnical stakeholders, and customers.
- Maintains strong customer focus, balanced with business requirements.
- Suggests valuable improvements and products based on customer and business needs.
- 10 years of engineering experience, to include at least 5 years’ experience in a role that demonstrates cross-discipline or system-level experience.
- 3 years of management experience, working with a range of junior to senior employees.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- U.S. Person status required.
- Must have or be able to obtain a U.S. security clearance
