Job Description

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

About the role

• The Lead Systems Designer leads a couple of cross-functional program teams. Programs to deliver the technical content, performance, intellectual property, and quality deliverables of an NPI and Research programs. The position has design responsibility to ensure that product programs achieve all design objectives required to meet customer and business needs, including: feature and functionality, quality, reliability, serviceability, manufacture-ability, regulatory, compliance and cost. The LSD must understand and capture the user needs into system requirements and is responsible for the architectural decomposition and allocation to subsystems.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that the quality targets are satisfied and retires technical risks as they arise on the program
• Leading the design team and design control process from requirements development and design planning to design transfer
• Leading the design team in the development of verification and validation planning and execution
• Developing requirements flow down, architecture/system design and analysis, risk analysis, integration and test, manufacturing, field and customer support including corrective and preventative actions to ensure customer satisfaction
• Driving the architecture, vision and design requirements for the product all the time balancing implementation complexity, risks, manufacturability, serviceability and quality

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Science or Bachelor’s Degree and 2 years experience within technical discipline or equivalent (defined as High School Diploma/GED and 4 years progressive experience as an engineer, scientistwithin the appropriate field of study or within technical systems designs)
• 5 years progressive experience as an engineer or scientist within the appropriate field of study
• 3 yeasr experience in project leadership within a manufacturing, development or research environment

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience driving CTQ flow-down to subsystems
• Demonstrated ability to work with technical leadership team to implement product platform/subsystem multi-generation technology plan for a specific release of a global program/product
• Demonstrated broad exposure to HW/SW/Systems design and technical depth in one or more engineering disciplines (Electrical, Mechanical, Software, etc)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical)
• Demonstrated applied 6 Sigma competency
• Demonstrated experience with NPI ISO and regulatory compliance process, design history file and collaterals are in place and current
• Creative problem solver and solution developer when presented with conflicting requirements, business demands and technical risks/issues
• Demonstrated skills in proactively identifying, facilitating and driving closure of a product/program
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated skills in proactively identifying, facilitating and driving closure of a product/program

Location: On-site in Waukesha, WI

Salary Range: $100K-$120K

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience

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