Principal Software System Engineer

Saxon Global•Raleigh, NC

5d•Onsite

About The Position

This role focuses on requirements management, risk management, and system engineering for digital applications. The Principal Software System Engineer will be responsible for translating user needs into system requirements, contributing to system and software architectures, and leading risk analysis activities. The position also involves Agile execution, hands-on testing, and technical investigations for field issues. Collaboration with cross-functional teams, including development, verification, manufacturing, and field service, is crucial. The role requires a strong understanding of QMS and regulatory frameworks, as well as experience with requirements and risk management tools.

Requirements

Requirements management (system and software level)
Risk management system hazard analysis, software hazard analysis, fault tree analysis
System of systems issues management/investigation
Connected ecosystems
Requirements Management and Compliance: Write, maintain, and own system-level and software-level design inputs/requirements, ensuring compliance with established Quality Management Systems (QMS) and regulatory frameworks.
Work with established requirements and risk management SW tools (e.g Polarion, JAMA, DOORS), and develop subject matter expertise in these tools.
User Needs Translation: Identify and capture user needs for digital applications, translating them into functional and non-functional system requirements.
Lead cross-functional teams to ensure these needs are effectively integrated into system requirements.
Architectural Contributions: Assist in establishing robust system and software architectures for digital applications, ensuring alignment with established design inputs.
Risk Management: Lead ISO 14971-based risk analysis activities, from identifying inherent hazards to implementing effective mitigation strategies.
Agile Execution: Enforce and support teams in executing Agile/Scrum planning, including estimating, scheduling, and completing committed tasks.
Hands-On Testing: Conduct ad-hoc testing of in-development and developed software systems to ensure ongoing product quality.
Issue Resolution: Lead/assist in technical investigations for field issues and product complaints with appropriate impact assessments on requirements and risks.

Nice To Haves

Driving Best Practices: Implement and champion best practices in software systems development and product lifecycles, utilizing Agile PDLC/SDLC and Systems Engineering methodologies in collaboration with development and verification teams.
Technical Leadership: Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to a distributed R&D team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
Complex Problem Solving: Develop innovative technical solutions to complex software system challenges, delivering high-quality results within tight deadlines.
Verification and Validation: Collaborate with verification engineers to define test strategies for system and software verification and validation plans, utilizing requirement tracing methods.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Drive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to enhance processes, practices, and technical mentorship, transforming software requirements into effective test architectures.
Design Transfer Process: Interface with manufacturing, field service, operations, and customer training staff throughout the design transfer process.
Compliance Assurance: Uphold compliance with the product development process and quality system standards.

Responsibilities

Write, maintain, and own system-level and software-level design inputs/requirements, ensuring compliance with established Quality Management Systems (QMS) and regulatory frameworks.
Work with established requirements and risk management SW tools (e.g Polarion, JAMA, DOORS), and develop subject matter expertise in these tools.
Identify and capture user needs for digital applications, translating them into functional and non-functional system requirements.
Lead cross-functional teams to ensure these needs are effectively integrated into system requirements.
Assist in establishing robust system and software architectures for digital applications, ensuring alignment with established design inputs.
Lead ISO 14971-based risk analysis activities, from identifying inherent hazards to implementing effective mitigation strategies.
Enforce and support teams in executing Agile/Scrum planning, including estimating, scheduling, and completing committed tasks.
Conduct ad-hoc testing of in-development and developed software systems to ensure ongoing product quality.
Lead/assist in technical investigations for field issues and product complaints with appropriate impact assessments on requirements and risks.
Implement and champion best practices in software systems development and product lifecycles, utilizing Agile PDLC/SDLC and Systems Engineering methodologies in collaboration with development and verification teams.
Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to a distributed R&D team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
Develop innovative technical solutions to complex software system challenges, delivering high-quality results within tight deadlines.
Collaborate with verification engineers to define test strategies for system and software verification and validation plans, utilizing requirement tracing methods.
Drive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to enhance processes, practices, and technical mentorship, transforming software requirements into effective test architectures.
Interface with manufacturing, field service, operations, and customer training staff throughout the design transfer process.
Uphold compliance with the product development process and quality system standards.