Senior Systems Engineer
Location: On-site in Bradenton, FL
Base Salary Rate: $115,247 - $135,585 per year
Job type: Full-time position
About This Role
This Systems Engineering role leads development efforts for embedded firmware and software-controlled life safety systems, including fire detection, notification, control, communications, and connected products. The role translates product needs into clear system and sub-system requirements while ensuring alignment across architecture, design, verification, validation, and production readiness. The candidate will develop systems engineering work products, identify requirement and interface risks, coordinate cross-functional technical inputs, support safety and failure mode analysis, and help improve standard work, tools, and repeatable engineering practices across multiple projects in a global team environment.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and maintain system requirements for fire alarm systems and associated equipment
Analyze, decompose, document, and manage system and safety-critical requirements
Drive requirements decomposition aligned to system architecture and technical trade studies
Define system boundaries, inputs/outputs, data flows, and processing needs
Establish requirements based on VoC sessions, quality incident tickets, and technology improvements.
Plan and coordinate verification/validation activities to ensure requirements coverage
Lead, facilitate and contribute to design, DFMEA, RRCA, and product safety reviews
Own assigned engineering workstreams across multiple projects or disciplines
Perform difficult or complex engineering activities and create standard works for common procedures.
Manage significant work packages within complex engineering projects
Support customer documentation development.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
5+ years of experience in systems engineering, or 8+ years of experience in an engineering domain such as electrical engineering, embedded firmware, software, product development, or safety-critical systems
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in Systems, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering
ASEP/CSEP, or equivalent systems engineering certification
Experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence, DOORS, Rhapsody, Visio, or equivalent engineering lifecycle tools
Demonstrated experience applying system architecture, UML/SysML, DFMEA, Pugh Matrix, requirements management, QFD, and verification traceability
Experience creating or improving standard work, engineering procedures, templates, or process guidance
Knowledge of KGS organization, processes, tools, programs, or systems is strongly preferred
Experience in the Fire Protection industry