Intermediate Systems Engineer

Kraken Robotics is currently recruiting for an Intermediate Systems Engineer to join our Dartmouth, NS office or Mount Pearl, NL office.

The Intermediate Systems Engineers at Kraken are responsible for leading the “interdisciplinary approach governing the total technical and managerial effort required to transform a set of customer needs, expectations and constraints into a solution and to support that solution throughout its life” (SEBoK). This role has a primary focus on complex requirements facilitating the life cycle activities such as:

• Requirements solicitation, derivation, and documentation.

• Generate and update systems architectural Plans

• Development of Verification and Validation Plans

• Control and Oversight of Interface Management

• Facilitating Management of Change with respect to Technical Project Scope

• Customer Technical Interface for project

• Technical Authority for Project Team

Kraken Systems Engineers rapidly develop expertise in new domains in order to architect, design, deliver, support, and evolve next generation capabilities through the entire product life cycle. The Kraken Systems Engineers are also responsible for maintaining and improving the Systems Engineering processes used within Kraken.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Applying engineering knowledge and a Systems Engineering mindset/approach to large and/or complex projects in the design, development, test, integration, verification, validation and operation of complex, specialized products and/or technologies

• Collaborating with external and internal stakeholders to:

• • Develop system level Concept of Operations/Operational Scenarios

• • Develop System Architecture concepts for solutions.

• • Develop/decompose system level requirements from product development roadmaps, operational needs, and customer and other stakeholder requirements to subsequent subsystems or components

• • Map requirements to verification activities and manage requirements and verification throughout a project’s life cycle

• Develop and manage:

• • Trade studies, analyses and modeling in support of requirements and system development

• • Sub system Architectures and flow down to component level CIs

• • Requirements management documentation and requirements conflict resolution

• • Interface Control Documentation

• • Other support documentation throughout all phases of a project

• Work with Project Managers and other stakeholders to

• • Support initial project planning/initiation with cost estimation and proposals

• • Create and maintain budgets

• • Create and maintain schedules

• • Identify, assess and mitigate project/design risks

• • Working with project managers and business stakeholders to ensure project schedules and budgets are maintained while accomplishing project deliverables

• Work with Discipline Engineers and Operations to

• • Provide technical leadership and review support

• • Support investigations and troubleshooting issues as they arise

• • Coordinate and support integration and testing activities.

• • Develop test plans and procedures for verification and validation activities

• Maintain the necessary Systems Engineering processes used within Kraken

• Additional Systems Engineering tasking as required

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience