Top Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Provides advanced remote IT support, systems administration, infrastructure troubleshooting, and technical escalation across client environments. Administers Microsoft 365, Windows Server, identity systems, Azure, networking, virtualization, endpoint management, and cybersecurity technologies. Mentors junior engineers, resolves complex tickets, maintains documentation and change controls, supports infrastructure initiatives, and evaluates emerging technologies. The role requires remote availability during West Coast Pacific Time business hours and effective communication in a managed services environment.

Defines and verifies the operating domain for autonomous robotaxi deployments, collaborates with autonomy, mapping, infrastructure, and operations teams, and develops AI-powered tools to assess expansion opportunities. The role includes analyzing system performance, validating map releases against constraints, documenting tools, supporting testing and coverage analysis, and contributing to the safety case for commercial launch. Requires strong Python, SQL, visualization, version control, software development, data analysis, and communication skills.

The Senior Systems Engineer I will develop and enhance mobile applications for cardiac health solutions, collaborating with engineers and cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with standards and successful project delivery.

Leads global, cross-functional engineering teams developing complex connected hardware/software products from early research through mass production. Owns system-level decisions, technical trade-offs, risk mitigation, design reviews, regulatory and quality requirements, and delivery of manufacturable consumer products. Collaborates with internal and external engineering partners across North America, Europe, and Asia while ensuring solutions meet end-user needs and business requirements.

Design, develop, optimize, and test real-time acoustic signal-processing algorithms for distributed undersea systems. Implement embedded software across low-SWAP, ARM, DSP, and server-class hardware while meeting stringent performance requirements. Collaborate on hardware integration and validation using C/C++, Python, MATLAB, Linux, Git, containers, and Jira. The role requires embedded systems, signal processing, hardware-interface, optimization, and debugging expertise, plus an active security clearance and eligibility for special access programs.

Integrate and test advanced RF hardware and software systems in laboratory, software-in-the-loop, and field environments. Develop hardware test sets, test software, plans, and procedures; execute testing against system requirements; document results and metrics; support technical reviews and briefings. Collaborate with development and systems engineering teams to integrate verification artifacts into Digital Engineering and MBSE workflows.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, integrations, data pipelines, automation, and workflows for internal business systems. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions. Ensure system reliability, performance, security, and scalability while contributing to technical strategy, code reviews, engineering best practices, mentorship, and process improvement.

Build and operate secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and networking platforms. Develop self-service tooling, infrastructure-as-code defaults, cloud guardrails, and standardized platform patterns. Lead cross-team infrastructure initiatives, technical investigations, and operational improvements while partnering with security, compute, routing, and other infrastructure teams.

Design and develop scalable, highly available software systems for NinjaOne’s IT Operations platform. Build Java and Kotlin applications, implement enterprise design patterns, optimize systems serving millions of endpoints, and contribute production code. Responsibilities include REST service development, relational database work, client-server messaging, caching, scalability improvements, and quality testing. The role collaborates with engineers to deliver reliable cloud services supporting worldwide operations.

Develop and execute systems engineering lifecycle assignments for complex defense, space, electronic, and biotechnology systems. Build and integrate multidisciplinary models, conduct simulation-based analysis and trade-space exploration, assess technical risks, recommend design modifications, and support system-level decision-making. Lead small teams, collaborate with customers and stakeholders, mentor engineers, and apply digital engineering, modeling, machine learning, and data-driven methods across the product lifecycle.

Design, develop, and deploy advanced software systems using systems engineering and MBSE. Derive and document requirements from incomplete software implementations, create SysML models in Cameo, perform capability gap analyses, and maintain traceability across the systems lifecycle. Collaborate with domain experts and software teams on mission planning, ISR management, and decision-support applications. The role requires an active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and supports a hybrid work environment.

Designs, implements, administers, and supports critical Linux infrastructure and enterprise systems. Diagnoses system issues, develops remediation plans, supports application infrastructure, and contributes to compliance activities. Builds automation, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code solutions using Linux, cloud, Kubernetes, GitOps, and configuration-management tools. Partners with engineering, security, and operations teams to improve reliability, scalability, security, and deployment efficiency while mentoring junior engineers.

Develop and document complex autonomy-system architectures using MBSE, SysML, DoDAF, and service-oriented patterns. Establish modeling standards, ontologies, traceability, and toolchain workflows; integrate systems models and verification activities into CI/CD pipelines. Facilitate architecture sessions, support distributed implementations and multi-system integration, and collaborate with software, platform, and integration teams in DevOps environments. Communicate architectural concepts and maintain alignment across technical baselines and program milestones.

Own embedded firmware and signal processing for process-aware industrial sensors. Develop Zephyr-based drivers, integrate detectors, manage ADC acquisition, filtering, calibration, noise rejection, connectivity, OTA updates, and health monitoring. Collaborate with hardware and machine learning teams to productionize sensing methodologies from prototype through deployment. The role requires strong embedded C/C++, analog and signal-chain expertise, testing discipline, and experience with optical or electrical sensing.

Designs and evaluates complex systems using MBSE and digital engineering practices. Responsibilities include resolving design weaknesses, developing security documentation, supporting accreditation and testing, producing lifecycle engineering artifacts, maintaining SysML models, managing requirements, defining interfaces, conducting trade studies, and promoting MBSE adoption across cross-functional teams. The role requires an active Top Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, systems engineering education, and relevant MBSE tool experience.

Lead power-system studies and resource interconnection analyses for renewable and conventional generation, transmission, distribution, and load applications. Develop and troubleshoot power-system models and automation scripts; conduct power flow, stability, short-circuit, EMT, harmonic, and techno-economic studies. Guide team members, manage technical and commercial project deliverables, engage with RTO/ISO stakeholders, support innovation, and contribute to proposals and customer relationships.

Execute and support an agency-level cybersecurity program. Responsibilities include administering RSA Archer, architecting cybersecurity solutions, troubleshooting security issues, developing remediation recommendations, managing workstations and servers, analyzing security architectures, and advising on NIST, FISMA, information security, privacy, and cloud guidelines. The role also involves security documentation, stakeholder coordination, and security information and event management.

Lead the architecture, hydraulic design, documentation, integration, manufacturing readiness, controls coordination, and commissioning of liquid-cooling and mechanical distribution systems for modular AI data centers. Own P&IDs, calculations, equipment and valve schedules, interfaces, standards, and performance validation. Collaborate with thermal, electrical, controls, manufacturing, commissioning, supply chain, OEM, and field teams to create scalable, serviceable, repeatable systems for deployment across multiple sites.

Own the shared data model and internal software supporting robotics maintenance, manufacturing, deployment, tutoring, sales handoffs, and field operations. Design relational schemas, execute migrations, reconcile operational data, build reporting, and translate business processes into software. Develop full-stack systems with TypeScript, React, and Python or TypeScript services. Direct AI coding agents, review their output, support users, and collaborate directly with technicians, plant managers, and operations teams.

Designs and validates fluid, mechanical, and electrical power-generation systems for autonomous naval vessels ranging from 1–50MW. Responsibilities include system architecture, component selection, routing, 3D CAD, sensors and controls integration, FMEA/FMECA, test planning, reliability validation, documentation, producibility, supplier coordination, and vendor management. The role requires strong fluids, thermal, mechanical, and electrical fundamentals, hands-on hardware experience, and a mechanical or aerospace engineering degree.

Support NVIDIA enterprise customers using GPU-accelerated platforms, triage hardware and AI/ML workload issues, collaborate with engineering teams, and drive cases through resolution. Develop support tools and products using AI, document customer interactions, and troubleshoot Linux-based multi-GPU systems, firmware, kernels, drivers, containers, and distributed workloads. The role also requires customer communication, technical analysis, and occasional weekend or holiday support.

Administer and secure identity, email, network, firewall, and collaboration infrastructure for a distributed workforce. Responsibilities include Okta or equivalent SSO management, email security controls, incident response, network administration, routing, switching, VPNs, firewall policies, documentation, vendor management, and infrastructure improvement. The role partners with Security and Help Desk teams, troubleshoots complex issues, supports onboarding and offboarding, and manages moderately complex projects independently.

Designs, builds, governs, secures, and optimizes Magna’s Azure and hybrid cloud environment. Partners with development and infrastructure teams on IaaS, PaaS, container, serverless, identity, networking, and connectivity architectures. Owns cloud governance, stability, cost management, monitoring, documentation, change management, and platform updates. Supports Microsoft 365 adoption, resolves cross-team issues, communicates service performance, and develops IT staff.

Own and improve Onebrief’s corporate security stack across endpoints, identity, SaaS, browsers, Zero Trust, EDR, SIEM, and MDM. Establish secure configuration baselines, detect and remediate drift, integrate telemetry, and build API-driven or infrastructure-as-code automation. Translate CMMC 2.0 and NIST-aligned requirements into continuously validated technical controls and reliable audit evidence. Partner with Corporate IT, Security Operations, GRC, and application owners to strengthen security posture and reduce manual compliance work.

Lead systems engineering for Hivemind-based autonomy products: define and manage requirements, develop system architectures and trade studies, coordinate hardware/software interfaces, support integration/verification/validation and testing, and identify and mitigate technical risks across the system lifecycle.