Sr Systems Engineer

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Itron's Systems Engineering organization is looking for aSenior Systems Engineerto join their team and help shape the future of Itron's network solutions and the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). In addition to industrial IoT solutions, Itron's portfolio of offerings includes Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Automated Meter Reading (AMR), Analytics, Distributed Energy Management (DEM), Distributed Intelligence (DI), Distributed Automation (DA), Electric Vehicles, Meter Data Management (MDM), and Smart City Solutions.

Systems Engineers work within the global R&D organization with a variety of engineering disciplines, with engineering cohorts distributed throughout the United States, Europe, and India. The Systems Engineering Team owns the overall development life cycle responsibilities from specification to final acceptance testing. This includes:

• Driving collaboration with Product Managers, Architects, Development, Quality Engineers, and Solutions Delivery consultants
• Developing and clearly conveying market needs in the form of System Use Cases and testable product requirements.
• Continuous process improvement to optimize the overall workflow and product quality improvements.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product management, product marketing and customer experience representatives to understand business cases and associated requirements.
• Facilitate negotiations between product management and product development to ensure technical scope is appropriate for time and cost constraints.
• Elaborate customer deployment and application scenarios needed to expose implied requirements
• Work closely with Product Management, to compile lists of features and functions as criteria for product requirements
• Ensure product requirements are prioritized in line with customer need and aligned with Itron business objectives
• Compose, maintain, and incrementally evolve testable system requirements and system design specifications
• Host conversations to design detailed behavior that meets requirement intent
• Review development and test designs to ensure the requirement has been implemented to customer satisfaction.
• Review and contribute to user documentation to ensure operational aspects of the product are clearly conveyed
• Identify and communicate technical risks associated with requirement gaps, technical debt, and bugs.
• Effectively communicate design requirements and specifications to development groups using a variety of tools.
• Demonstrate core competencies and governance throughout the product life cycle by collaborating on engineering solutions and managing scope change.
• Maintain involvement during testing and deployment of products, looking for product function gaps and requirement or operational misalignment and assessing issues.
• Support other Systems Engineers when coaching is needed, or interaction is required to build confidence in designs or ideas.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science is preferred, but this requirement may be waived if the applicant has sufficient experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer or related architect role.
• Conflict management skills are a must; Systems Engineering often serves as the technical lead during product lifecycle programs and must be able to have difficult conversations to move decisions forward, while maintaining a collaborative relationship.
• Communication skills, strong organization, and the ability to lead productive meetings must be strengths to ensure success in this role.
• Experience with Systems Engineering (behavioral analysis, requirements flow down and traceability, hardware and software specification allocations, use cases, sequence diagrams, interface control documents, verification and validation) and understanding of the systems lifecycle.
• History of building productive relationships with colleagues at sites around the world, as this is generally a collaborative design effort as opposed to an isolated individual contributor role.
• Ability to derive, elaborate and justify critical aspects of system qualities in terms of product scalability, performance, reliability, availability, and serviceability.
• Experience working with cross functional teams to establish detailed product behaviors, time and cost estimates based on input from all Engineering disciplines.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Expertise with software or embedded firmware is preferred, but not required.
• Expertise with cellular or networking technology advantageous, but not required.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience and may vary by location.

Liberty Lake, WA: The base salary is $78,000.00 - $148,000.00.

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Itron is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and providing an authentic workplace experience for all employees. If you are excited about this role but your past experiences don't perfectly align with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. In the end, you may be just who we are looking for!

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.

Itron is proud to be an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. If you require an accommodation to apply, please contact a recruiting representative at 1-800-635-5461 or email Accessibility@itron.com.

Itron enables utilities and cities to safely, securely and reliably deliver critical infrastructure solutions. We provide smart networks, software, services, meters, and sensors to better manage electricity, gas, water and city services. We are dedicated to creating a more resourceful world.