Senior Systems Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were a global close-knit community united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration thats critical for safer communities safer schools safer hospitals safer businesses and ultimately safer nations. Connect with a career that matters and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day delivery of one or more system projects from concept to NPI handover.
• Act as the primary technical lead and escalation point for the project pod.
• Plan and run system-level technical reviews and readiness checkpoints.
• Coordinate inputs from Hardware RF Embedded Software Applications Software Mechanical Design and Test teams.
• Ensure delivery progress risks and trade-offs are visible and actively managed.
• Define and maintain system architecture interfaces and performance targets.
• Translate product intent and customer needs into clear system requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure subsystem designs align with overall system goals and constraints.
• Manage system-level trade-offs (performance cost power manufacturability schedule).
• Lead system integration activities and convergence.
• Work closely with Test and Verification to define system-level test strategies early.
• Support execution of verification and validation activities and assess readiness for progression and NPI.
• Troubleshoot complex system-level issues spanning multiple domains.
• Provide hands-on technical input where appropriate including mechanical design prototype build support and system bring-up.
• Review and guide mechanical designs to ensure RF performance manufacturability and deployment constraints are met.
• Support rapid prototyping and iteration to retire technical risk early.
• Lead system aspects of NPI ensuring designs are production-ready.
• Ensure system requirements limitations and validation evidence are clearly communicated to production teams.
• Support early production builds and resolution of system-level issues.
• Mentor Systems Engineers Junior Engineers and Project Engineers in good systems practice.
• Promote clear system thinking evidence-based decision-making and pragmatic engineering judgement.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of systems engineering processes and standards.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering or
• a related field. Masters degree is desirable but not essential.
• Significant experience in a systems engineering role within RF
• electronics aerospace defence or similar complex engineering environments.
• Proven experience delivering systems through prototype test and NPI.
• Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience with RF systems system integration and troubleshooting.
• Strong system-level analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Solid understanding of RF principles and RF product integration.
• Experience designing for manufacture and supporting prototype builds.
• Proficiency with mechanical CAD (SolidWorks) is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with relevant standards (e.g. IEEE ISO MIL-STD DEF-STAN).
• Clear confident communicator capable of leading technical discussions.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Comfortable making technical decisions with incomplete information.
• Pragmatic delivery-focused and evidence-driven.
• Able to balance hands-on engineering with leadership responsibility.

Travel Requirements

Relocation Provided

Position Type

Referral Payment Plan

Company

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion or belief sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If youd like to join our team but feel that you dont quite meet all of the preferred skills wed still love to hear why you think youd be a great addition to our team.