Title:  Sr. Associate, Systems Designer

Sr. Associate, Systems Designer (L2)

Reference #30027

Waterdown ON, Canada

About the Role

This role is responsible for defining, analyzing, and managing system-level requirements that ensure seamless integration across optical, mechanical, electrical, and software subsystems.  You will also be responsible for end-to-end Verification and Validation to ensure the delivered system meets all performance, environmental, and functional requirements.  The position is fast paced and requires close collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure design consistency, traceability and compliance with program and industry standards. 

Primary Responsibilities 

• Manage multiple technical projects in a cross functional environment, with the ability to balance requirements of a variety of stakeholders, including internal and external parties.
• Provide a technical leadership for the execution/development of  EO/IR projects and contracted programs
• Develop Concepts of Operation, system specifications and interface control documents
• Work collaboratively with Software Engineering to design, test and document new product features and ensure traceability to top level requirements
• Support flight test and customer demonstrations setup, troubleshooting and performance characterization
• Maintain requirement traceability in IBM DOORS
• Support Program Management and Project Engineering during execution of customer funded programs and new product developments
• Support product level design and analysis including trade studies and architecture evaluations
• Perform functional verification tests and support system integration verification/validation tests
• Generate qualification plans, qualification summary reports and qualification by similarity reports
• Participate in and provide inputs to system design reviews
• Ensure deliverable product meets the design objectives
• Collaborate with Senior Engineers on the creation of new product features and sensors 
• Keep in synchronization with Systems Engineering industry trends and new technology that may be relevant to L3Harris Wescam present and future development

Recommended Skills & Knowledge

• Strong project and technical management skills. Ability to manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously
• Understanding and familiarity of communication protocols.
• Knowledge of Systems Engineering life cycle process
• Knowledge of EO/IR imaging systems, optics, stabilization and/or image processing
• Understanding of MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-704 and RTCA DO-160 standards with respect to environmental testing
• Strong leadership, planning, organizational and analytical skills
• Ability to deal directly with internal and external customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Programming skills in Matlab, Python, and/or database management is desirable
• User level knowledge on IBM Doors an asset
• Familiarity with MBSE modelling an asset
• Hands-on experience in applying machine learning to EO/IR systems an asset (target recognition, object tracking, machine vision)
• Knowledge of navigation systems, GPS denied operations and inertial navigation systems an asset

Desired Education and Experiences 

• Requires practical knowledge of job area.
• Experience in managing complex projects
• Bachelor’s or Graduate Engineering Degree.

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