Systems Engineering Manager

Position

The Systems Engineering Manager is responsible for the successful realization of the company's products.​ You will be a key member of the management team and the thought leader for all of system development.​

• Define the customer needs and required functionality
• Define the architecture, external interfaces and functional description of the system
• Responsible for system, product and feature requirements, design synthesis and system validation
• Ensure that the systems remain superior and cost competitive in the marketplace
• Responsible for system performance, functional operation and practical implementation
• Responsible for technical evaluations of major system enhancements and major new customer requirements
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant emerging technologies and support the company in R&D Planning
• Ensure that the system meets relevant industry standards, where applicable
• Systems support to research, sales, product management, marketing, engineering and deployment
• Budget and capital management
• Work with existing and potential new customers to understand their problems and translate them into practical, scalable, cost effective, and easily deployable and manageable product/​feature requirements
• Be the key driver in all system architecture activities for standardization
• Develop and maintain SoC to all applicable standards
• Participate in internal standards roadmap planning and external standards meetings
• Develop and manage requirements into research projects ensuring ultimate productization will be practical, measurable and evolvable
• Ensure system/​product architecture enhancements will be evolvable, scalable, manageable and easy to use
• Ensure that system evolution does not adversely impact key system characteristics
• Participate in review of all critical system design and test documents
• Drive continuous product performance improvements through effective monitoring of inservice products
• Lead the system improvement initiatives
• Develop and maintain external product specific interface specifications
• Provide technical solutions support in the RFI/​RFP process and other pre or post sales processes
• Provide system level technical support in customer meetings



Experience



• Strong leader, software product/systems development, wireless network market, carrier grade, deployment experience, wireless standards and network architecture, project management.
• MSEE/​MSCS with a minimum of 12 years of experience in software product/​systems development, ideally worked both as an individual contributor and as a leader.
• Experience in software engineering processes as it relates to product development for the wireless network market.​
• Proven ability to take concepts into deployable products.​ Understands essential elements of product engineering.​ Can take a product concept and break it down into subsystems and prioritized feature sets.​ Has developed and deployed telecom carrier grade products.​
• Very good understanding of various wireless standards and wireless network architectures (such as GSM, IS136, CDMA and UMTS) at both the network and radio interface.​
• Preferably has actively participated in wireless standards development; either as editor and or CR preparation and or defending contributions in standards meetings.​
• Has good knowledge of computing platforms and trends.​
• Must have a broad working knowledge of wireless communication and data processing technologies and products.​
• Self starter, thought leader and out of the box thinker.​ Understands leading technologies and how to exploit them in creating innovative products.​
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills.​
• Excellent people and project management skills.​
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; able to prepare and present comprehensive presentations to customers at all levels.