Senior Systems Engineer - West Dublin.
Our client seeks a highly motivated Senior Systems Engineer to join the Engineering team. The successful candidate shall be a self-motivated individual with an ability to work independently across a wide range of disciplines, and with an aptitude to self-manage tasks and assignments. Additionally, strong cross-functional collaboration skills are essential.
Role Purpose:
The role will involve assisting with design, test and documentation for products and systems for space programs. The ideal candidate will be an all-rounder with a mix of experience in electronic design, hardware test, data analysis and software development. An understanding of classical mechanics is an advantage.
The successful candidate will work within a multi-disciplinary engineering team responsible for designing complex measurement systems. Day-to-day activities will include work on system specifications, project documentation, system interfaces, system analyses, and system tests.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Review and analysis of customer requirements.
- Hardware test at electronic and system level.
- Participate and lead system-level analyses, including reliability, worst-case, FMECA, and parts-stress.
- Environmental testing, including mechanical load tests, thermal tests, and EMC tests.
- Contribute towards design solutions to determine compliance with relevant standards and specifications.
- Collaborate with other members of the team on product and/or system design.
- Liaise with hardware and FPGA designers, and 3rd party vendors.
- Write technical documentation including specifications, technical notes, compliance matrices and reports.
- Develop and maintain system-level program documentation.
- Participate in all system and subsystem integration and acceptance testing.
- Attend meetings and create technical presentations to share with customers.
Experience & Qualifications requirements:
- At least 5 years’ experience in a similar systems engineering role.
- University degree in engineering.
- Fluency in English (verbal and written) is essential.
- High level of attention to detail.
- Ability to interpret and/or analyse schematics for electronic designs.
- Knowledge of various types of sensors and how they interface with electronic systems.
- Knowledge of analogue and digital electronics, and an understanding of the boundaries between them is an asset.
- A good aptitude for mechanical reasoning.
- Relevant experience in product/system design and test.
- Familiarity with test lab environment, including expertise with test instrumentation such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, and network analysers.
- Familiarity with European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS) and/or previous experience with working on aerospace projects would be an advantage.
- Willingness to work on documentation for prolonged periods.
- Knowledge and practical experience with:
- Python
- LabVIEW
- MATLAB/Simulink
- Knowledge of system analyses such as:
- Performance analysis
- EMC/ESD analysis
- Reliability analysis
- Worst-case analysis
- FMEA/FMECA analysis
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Work Location: In person
