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Product Development Systems Engineer

Attain Talent

Responsibilities

  • The role requires a high level of autonomy and practical engineering ownership. You will be expected not only to structure and coordinate systems engineering activities, but also to directly implement, review and validate portions of the electrical and system design.

Systems Engineering Leadership

  • Identify, value and prioritize, together with marketing and product managers, the targeted applications for advanced battery systems.
  • Define and run systems engineering activities for advanced battery system development programs.
  • Define and maintain system requirements, functional architectures and interface specifications.
  • Establish technical roadmaps to progress early prototypes toward industrialized product solutions.
  • Ensure traceability between requirements, design solutions and validation results.

Architecture & Product Development

  • Develop the overall system architecture for advanced battery system platforms.
  • Defining key electrical and system interfaces between major functional blocks.
  • Battery modules and battery assemblies
  • Battery management and supervisory control systems
  • Power electronics

External electrical and communication interfaces

  • Conduct technical trade studies and design reviews.
  • Contribute directly to electrical architecture, interface design, component selection, schematic review and prototype implementation activities.
  • Identify and evaluate new technologies for inclusion into next generation systems; including new integrated circuits & architectures, design methods & tools, and build models, simulations & prototypes.
  • Identify opportunities to create products that build the business

Verification, Validation & Integration

  • Define verification and validation strategies.
  • Lead integration activities across hardware, software and control systems.
  • Participate and support hands-on debugging, electrical testing, troubleshooting and design iteration during prototype build and integration phases.
  • Coordinate laboratory, HIL, prototype and demonstration testing.
  • Ensure technical readiness at major program milestones.

Safety & Compliance

  • Gain understanding of compliance process and develop strategies for effective certifications
  • Lead system-level hazard analyses and risk assessments.
  • Define system protection strategies and fault management approaches.
  • Support compliance with applicable military, aerospace and industry standards.
  • Interface with engineering teams in Cockeysville, Valdosta and Bordeaux, France.
  • Support project planning, technical reviews.
  • Work closely with design engineers while personally contributing to selected technical work packages where electrical or systems expertise is required.

Requirements

  • Minimum 7 years of experience in complex product development, including hands-on electrical or systems design responsibilities.

Preferred

  • Experience with Requirements Management Tools (Example: IBM Doors, PTC Codebeamer).
  • Experience with Defense, Aerospace or Mission-Critical Systems.

This position requires candidate

MUST BE A US CITIZEN OR GREEN CARD HOLDER

Your Mission

As Product Development Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for the end-to-end systems engineering process for advanced battery system development, leading to operation prototype, testing and validation.

You will serve as a technical contributor and leader responsible for aligning battery systems, electrical design, power electronics, controls, embedded interfaces, safety functions and system integration activities into a cohesive product architecture.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Systems/Electrical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline (electronics engineering, computer engineering, mechatronics engineering, etc)

Experience

  • Experience progressing products through development and validation phases.
  • Experience in the energy storage system is a plus.
  • Demonstrated success in working with a multidisciplinary engineering program.
  • Practical experience implementing or reviewing electrical designs, schematics, wiring diagrams, protection concepts or power conversion interfaces is highly desirable.
  • Experience writing technical specifications/ proposal is a plus
  • Technical Expertise

Experience in several of the following areas

  • Systems Engineering (V-Cycle).
  • Experience in Battery Systems and Battery Management Systems is highly desirable.
  • Familiarity with Power Electronics and Power Conversion.
  • Electrical architecture, circuit design, interface definition and prototype testing.
  • System Integration and Verification.
  • Good understanding of Functional Safety and Risk Analysis is required.
  • Battery Cell Electrochemistry understanding and tradeoff awareness will be helpful.

Desired Qualities

  • Strong technical leadership and decision-making capability.
  • High degree of autonomy, with the ability to take ownership of activities from definition to execution in an early-stage development context.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to influence teams without direct authority.
  • Customer-focused mindset.
  • Comfortably operating in a fast-paced development environment.
  • Passion for innovation and technology maturation.

What Success Looks Like

Within the first 18 months, you will

  • Successfully support advanced battery system development through key technology demonstration activities.
  • Establish a robust systems engineering framework for the program.
  • Deliver a validated system architecture supported by clear electrical interface definitions and prototype test evidence.

Additional Information

Medical/Dental offered

  • 401k match at 7% (fully vested by year 5)
  • Stock offerings: 20% discount on stock once a year, company will match up to 10 shares
  • 3 weeks PTO
  • 10 holidays
  • 1 floating holiday

Unlimited sick time

Attain Partners is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The individual base salary for this position is unique to each candidate and will be commensurate with experience, education, and skills. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

Interested in this position but the compensation isn’t quite right? Let us know your expectations, and we’ll see if we can make it happen based on your qualifications.

Salary Range

$120,000

$160,000 USD

Attain Talent is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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EEO

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  • Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and

Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)

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