Systems Engineer (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles)

Location: Bristol, Rhode Island, United States; work is based at a waterfront workshop and office.

Company

hirify.global is an autonomous underwater vehicle startup developing technology for underwater exploration, research, and defense applications.

What you will do

• Derive and document system-level requirements from mission, programmatic, and customer needs, decomposing them into testable subsystem requirements.
• Develop and maintain system architectures and block diagrams covering mechanical, electrical, and software components and interfaces.
• Define pass/fail criteria and partner with test engineering on verification methods and execution.
• Own verification and validation planning for programmatic and internal research and development systems.
• Lead and participate in multidisciplinary design reviews and support hardware and software integration.
• Maintain lifecycle documentation, identify system-level risks, troubleshoot fielded and test systems, and drive mitigation strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Aerospace, Ocean Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5–8 years of systems engineering experience with complex multidisciplinary hardware/software products.
• Experience owning requirements derivation, system design, requirements decomposition, and verification and validation planning.
• Strong understanding of interactions between mechanical, electrical, and software subsystems.
• Familiarity with code and software sufficient to collaborate with firmware and software engineering teams.
• Familiarity with the Department of War Systems Engineering Technical Review process and Agile systems engineering methodologies such as Scrum.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on autonomous underwater platforms for exploration, research, and defense applications.
• Contribute to technology development in a startup environment with a waterfront workshop and office.
• Equal opportunity employment.