Systems Engineer - North America

Motion Applied•Dulles, VA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Motion Applied is at the forefront of innovation in industries including automotive transportation and motorsport, focusing on electrification, telemetry, control, and analytics. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness, aiming to deliver breakthroughs in performance. Our agile, cross-functional portfolio teams collaborate to solve complex problems. These teams typically include Systems Engineers, Data Scientists, Full Stack Software Engineers, Test Engineers, System Reliability Engineers (DevOps), and Computer Systems Analysts.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computing, Computer Science, Information Systems, or other highly quantitative field (or equivalent experience).
Experience analyzing and implementing systems with hardware, embedded software, application software, and mechanical components.
An understanding of communications systems in transport or related industry.
An understanding and appreciation of requirements capture, management, traceability processes and the importance thereof.
Evidence of involvement in testing & validation of distributed electronic and software systems.
Using in-depth product and/or industry knowledge to provide specialized technical application knowledge and expertise to sales and business development teams and the client through technical presentations and product demonstrations.
LAN/WAN networking and IT Network Operations experience.
Experience of working with Linux servers (preferably Debian derived), including set-up and administration of common services, routing and IP.
Experience with programming skills, including working with version control tools.

Nice To Haves

Rail or other Transport industry experience
Technical sales involvement
Experience with wireless network deployment, wireless LAN controllers and an appreciation of networking in a dynamic environment
Experience of automation platforms such as Saltstack, Puppet, Ansible etc.
Experience of programming in Python and/or Bash
Experience of working in virtualized and cloud-based environments
Experience in the rail vehicle environment with an appreciation of rolling stock regulations. In particular, evidence of defining and specifying systems to be installed onto rail vehicles would be a distinct advantage
Some understanding of US rail/bus market would be desirable
Extensive customer facing experience in a technical or product capacity
Professional qualifications in communications systems (e.g. CCNA).
Experience with requirements management and lifecycle management tools

Responsibilities

Analyze, design, and implement leading-edge systems across various market segments, including the transportation market.
Actively participate in the end-to-end systems analysis lifecycle of complex communications and technology projects.
Provide technical input from eliciting user/product needs, requirements capture/management/traceability, through to test & verification planning for systems deployments.
Analyze and develop communications solutions with oversight from a Senior Systems Engineer.
Input into the communications technology roadmap to keep the business at the forefront of industry trends.
Provide technical contribution to the planning and implementation of projects, bids, and proposals.
Involve in pre-sales and sales activities, requirements capture, and deployment of proof of concepts.
Champion systems analysis best practice within Motion Applied.
Work closely with the UK Systems Engineering team to continuously improve practice and processes.
Proactively contribute to knowledge dissemination by being a technology evangelist, learning, and being coached.
Foster links to other technical disciplines across the team.