Top Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Leads systems architecture for vacuum semiconductor automation platforms, translates customer needs into products, and directs cross-functional engineering projects. Responsibilities include integrating new technologies, solving complex systems problems, mentoring engineers, influencing management, and interacting with customers internationally. The role requires advanced expertise in vacuum systems and design within semiconductor automation, with preference for Creo 3D modeling skills.

Designs, deploys, administers, and troubleshoots Linux-based infrastructure supporting US Antarctic Program systems. Responsibilities include RHEL administration, virtualization, OpenShift clusters, backups, monitoring, security hardening, automation, DNS, Git, documentation, technical leadership, and 24x7 escalation support. The role may involve temporary Antarctic deployments and requires U.S. citizenship, Public Trust clearance, and NSF physical and dental examinations.

Provides systems engineering and architecture support across the defense acquisition lifecycle for Department of the Air Force Battle Network capabilities. Translates operational requirements into technical requirements, develops system-of-systems architectures, assesses risk and trade spaces, supports verification and validation, and coordinates integration across government, industry, joint, and coalition stakeholders. The role is onsite at Hanscom AFB and requires a Top Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and 10% travel.

Provides advanced systems engineering for NETGEAR ProAV customers across the North Central U.S. Responsibilities include customer onboarding, technical training, AV-over-IP solution design, field troubleshooting, commissioning, pre-sales support, system demonstrations, automation tool development, documentation, and industry presentations. The role requires expertise in multicast networking, timing protocols, AV technologies, multi-vendor integrations, and complex deployments, with travel of up to 60%.

Designs, administers, secures, and modernizes hybrid infrastructure across Windows Server, identity platforms, VMware, AWS, and endpoint systems. Serves as a senior escalation point for complex incidents, leads major incident response and root-cause remediation, and drives automation, compliance, vulnerability management, and operational standardization. The role also supports infrastructure architecture, audit remediation, documentation, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring while participating in an on-call rotation.

Lead cybersecurity engineering and software development for HPE Block Storage products. Responsibilities include designing security architecture, implementing cybersecurity features, supporting certification and compliance activities, evaluating security technologies, remediating vulnerabilities, influencing security standards, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in cybersecurity engineering, software development, compliance frameworks, scalable security solutions, and technical leadership.

Provides advanced production support for Ellucian Banner and connected enterprise applications. Troubleshoots complex application, database, integration, and data issues; maintains APIs, web services, middleware, and database interfaces; monitors system performance and data flows; supports upgrades and implementations; documents systems and procedures; coordinates with technical teams, vendors, and stakeholders; participates in incident and change management; automates processes; mentors IT staff; and contributes to scalable system architecture.

Provides Oracle-based digital finance and systems integration consulting for clients. Responsibilities include analyzing financial processes, designing and implementing business application solutions, integrating enterprise platforms, supporting NetSuite adoption, managing projects and budgets, applying agile methodologies, documenting deliverables, and maintaining stakeholder relationships. The role also provides client training, technical support, and optimization advice across financial planning, reporting, and operations.

Lead battery system architecture, integration, validation, and sustaining engineering for wearable products. Develop requirements, power budgets, verification strategies, reliability assessments, and manufacturing controls. Integrate charging, fuel gauging, protection, thermal sensing, firmware, and mechanical systems. Investigate failures using test data and telemetry, collaborate with engineering and external partners, qualify designs, support compliance, and evaluate battery technologies. Travel up to 15% to suppliers, manufacturing partners, and testing facilities.

Lead and contribute to the design, integration, deployment, and sustainment of mission-focused systems. Translate stakeholder needs into technical requirements, architectures, interface definitions, deployment patterns, and operational processes. Partner with software engineers and data scientists to integrate applications, data pipelines, infrastructure, and external systems. Support testing, verification, troubleshooting, operational readiness, documentation, and reliability improvements for secure, scalable, data-intensive systems.

Designs system architectures, requirements, interfaces, and performance metrics for robotaxi systems spanning autonomy, remote operations, fleet orchestration, mapping, and customer-facing software. Evaluates system performance through data pipelines, simulation, verification, and validation campaigns; collaborates across engineering and operations teams; documents complex workflows; and supports safety-focused autonomous vehicle deployment.

Design, build, and maintain core gameplay systems, frameworks, Unreal Engine plugins, and multiplayer networking systems. Own technical architecture, performance, scalability, debugging, and technical debt reduction. Partner with designers and programmers, mentor engineers, lead code reviews and design discussions, document systems, and support sprint planning for an Unreal Engine game project.

Designs, implements, secures, and supports enterprise IT systems across a multi-site manufacturing environment. Owns Tier 3 incident resolution, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, identity, endpoints, servers, networking, virtualization, and enterprise migrations. Leads modernization initiatives, supports regulated government cloud environments, develops automation and documentation, and mentors IT teams. The role requires strong expertise in Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365, Active Directory, Windows environments, hybrid architectures, and security-focused infrastructure operations.

Design, deploy, maintain, tune, and secure enterprise Linux environments supporting high-performance EDA compute farms. Lead infrastructure-as-code automation, configuration management, continuous deployment, and tooling development using Python, Bash, or Go. Manage LDAP/SSSD naming services, NFS and Autofs storage, virtualization, container infrastructure, registries, networking, and infrastructure telemetry. Support highly available, scalable systems and potentially integrate cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, EDA toolchains, and HPC clusters.

Provides presales technical support for HPE Networking solutions serving Rhode Island state government and higher education accounts. Designs complex networking solutions, delivers presentations and demonstrations, supports proposals and proofs of concept, manages technical customer and partner relationships, and collaborates with territory managers to advance sales opportunities. The role requires expertise in WLAN, switching, NAC/AAA, routing, LAN/WAN technologies, consultative selling, solution design, and executive-level customer engagement.

Provides system-level technical leadership for commercial medical devices across design changes, lifecycle management, reliability, risk management, requirements, integration, verification, and complex issue resolution. Partners with multidisciplinary teams across engineering, quality, manufacturing, regulatory, service, and operations. Requires regulated-industry engineering experience, with preferred medical device post-commercialization expertise and knowledge of systems engineering, reliability methods, design controls, and medical device standards.

Provides system-level technical leadership for commercial medical devices across commercialization and sustaining engineering. Leads requirements, architecture, risk management, reliability assessments, integration, verification testing, and complex product issue investigations. Partners with engineering, quality, manufacturing, regulatory, service, and operations teams to maintain safe, reliable, compliant products. Mentors engineers and guides systems engineering practices, design controls, and industry standards.

Serves as the senior IT escalation point for U.S. sites, resolving complex infrastructure, networking, identity, Microsoft 365, Azure, and end-user issues. Establishes security standards, manages access controls, and supports export-control compliance. Leads IT migrations, upgrades, rollouts, AI-tool integration, documentation, vendor and asset management, and technical coaching across a global IT team.

Develop and lead mechanical and ocean engineering solutions for uncrewed undersea systems, including vehicles, buoys, pressure vessels, hydrodynamic structures, and sensor subsystems. Responsibilities include modeling and simulation, prototyping, fabrication, integration, testing, peer reviews, technical documentation, and collaboration across mechanical, electrical, acoustic, software, and systems teams. The role supports advanced defense and ISR research involving fielded undersea systems.

Leads technical pre-sales activities for enterprise storage solutions, partnering with sales teams, customers, and channel partners. Translates business requirements into storage and cloud architectures, manages evaluations and benchmarks, delivers technical presentations, supports RFPs and competitive positioning, and drives technical wins. The role requires deep expertise in storage architectures, Linux, networking, distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, containers, and enterprise applications.

Leads system integration, verification, validation, defect analysis, and remediation for medical device products. Translates user needs and system requirements into traceable test cases, executes system-level testing, analyzes risks and results, supports DFMEA and risk-control verification, and ensures compliance with medical device standards and regulations. Collaborates with cross-functional teams on issue resolution, product safety, design reviews, and readiness milestones. Some domestic and international travel may be required.

Lead end-to-end LLM inference performance across serving systems, models, GPU hardware, and workloads. Define rigorous benchmarks, diagnose bottlenecks from scheduling through kernels and interconnects, optimize single- and multi-node deployments, and deliver production-ready runtimes and configurations. Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams, evaluate inference technologies, and implement runtime fixes. The role requires strong Python engineering, production experience with serving engines such as vLLM or SGLang, GPU profiling, and knowledge of modern inference optimization techniques.

Maintains AWS infrastructure supporting PLM applications for DoD customers. Responsibilities include cloud architecture, Ansible automation, database administration, application installation and patching, security updates, performance tuning, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and infrastructure scaling. Requires AWS and Security+ certifications, enterprise cloud experience, Linux and Windows administration, database expertise, an active or obtainable U.S. national security clearance, and potential travel to customer sites.

Lead systems engineering for advanced audio platforms across embedded, cloud, mobile, and AI/ML domains. Define architecture and requirements, perform trade studies and risk analysis, ensure traceability and verification, drive platform reuse, influence hardware/software decisions, and partner cross-functionally to deliver consumer and automotive audio products from concept through launch.

Lead design and implementation of data architecture and scalable storage solutions, drive AI/GenAI thought leadership, oversee data governance and security, translate business requirements into technical plans, implement FastAPI endpoints, enhance LLMs through prompt engineering, and manage cross-functional teams to deliver advanced data and AI solutions.