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Titan Advanced Energy Solutions is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for the hardware engineering organization. This role combines sophisticated AI algorithms, software engineering, and ultrasound cell-inspection technology to improve lithium-ion battery cell quality and other energy manufacturing applications. The company has received funding from venture capital, Greentown Labs, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), and the Department of Energy.
The Senior Systems Engineer will serve as a key technical leader within the Massachusetts engineering team, translating product requirements into robust, manufacturable, deployable systems. This is a hands-on role requiring direct engagement with hardware, problem-solving on the floor, design reviews, and coordination across engineering disciplines.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership to the multidisciplinary hardware engineering team
- Lead system-level architecture, requirements definition, design reviews, interface management, integration, and verification
- Translate product and customer requirements into clear engineering requirements and system specifications
- Coordinate work across mechanical, electrical, controls, automation, sensing, software, and manufacturing disciplines
- Identify technical risks, system dependencies, interface problems, and integration issues early in development
- Drive disciplined engineering execution from concept through prototype, validation, production, installation, and customer deployment
- Lead technical design reviews and ensure engineering decisions are documented and closed
- Establish system requirements, interface control documents, verification plans, and acceptance criteria
- Work directly with engineers to troubleshoot difficult multidisciplinary technical problems
- Support prototype builds, system integration, commissioning, and customer deployments
- Ensure designs consider reliability, serviceability, manufacturability, safety, cost, and field performance
- Coordinate engineering priorities across multiple simultaneous programs
- Mentor less-experienced engineers and promote strong engineering practices
- Work closely with Product, Project Management, Operations, Software, and customer-facing teams
- Serve as a senior technical escalation point when systems do not perform as expected
- Help improve engineering processes without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or related engineering field
- 10+ years of engineering experience developing complex electromechanical or automated systems
- Strong practical understanding of systems engineering and multidisciplinary product development
- Demonstrated experience taking complex equipment from requirements through design, integration, validation, and deployment
- Experience coordinating mechanical, electrical, controls, software, and other technical disciplines
- Strong root-cause analysis and troubleshooting capabilities
- Experience developing and managing system requirements and interfaces
- Strong understanding of design reviews, verification, validation, and engineering change processes
- Ability to make sound technical decisions with incomplete information
- Comfortable working directly with engineers, technicians, prototypes, and production equipment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to lead through technical credibility rather than organizational authority
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in industrial automation, robotics and motion-control systems, machine design, sensors and instrumentation, PLC and industrial controls, automated inspection systems, battery manufacturing or testing, semiconductor or high-volume manufacturing equipment, automotive manufacturing systems, machine vision or nondestructive testing, or data acquisition systems
- Experience with factory equipment integration, design for manufacturing and assembly
- Background in startup, scale-up, advanced technology company, or other fast-moving engineering environment
