Top Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

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 and commission vacuum-system machinery for Stack Forging thermal manufacturing, bringing products from laboratory development into mass production. Responsibilities include machine and subsystem design, CAD and documentation, thermal and structural analysis, vacuum calculations, FEA, tolerance stack-up analysis, root-cause investigation, equipment reliability and automation improvements, prototype testing, requirements development, design reviews, and vendor management. The role requires four onsite days per week in Burlington, Massachusetts.

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.

Lead power systems engineering for utility distribution planning, DER interconnection, protection coordination, and grid integration. Perform power-flow, short-circuit, and hosting-capacity analyses; develop controls, communications, and operational technology integration solutions; guide utility technical reviews; and support battery storage and distributed generation programs. Build scalable engineering standards and processes while collaborating with utilities, technology providers, commercial teams, and project delivery.

Lead the architecture and implementation of Amplify’s design system, including reusable React components, design tokens, frontend infrastructure, documentation, and contribution workflows. Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to establish standards, accessibility practices, governance, and adoption across products. Mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, improve development workflows, and explore AI-assisted development practices.

Leads architecture, engineering, security, integration, deployment, and sustainment of the Informatica Data Governance Suite in AWS GovCloud. Designs high availability, disaster recovery, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, monitoring, identity, security, and compliance capabilities. Coordinates Informatica, cloud, database, cybersecurity, and testing teams; supports RMF/ATO and STIG activities; reviews technical artifacts; manages risks; and transfers operational knowledge to government personnel.

Build and operate Node.js and TypeScript backend services using durable workflows and AI-assisted development. Define service patterns, orchestrate migrations, maintain MCP and AI workflow tooling, and improve observability through metrics, alerts, dashboards, and tracing. Handle production incidents, contribute targeted frontend changes in React and Angular, and collaborate on architecture and code reviews in a fully remote environment.

Lead research and development of autonomous internal network and Active Directory attack capabilities for the NodeZero platform. Build production-grade Python systems, exploit vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, extend graph-based attack models, validate complex attack scenarios, and maintain safe, scalable offensive tooling. Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, shape coverage priorities, document technical decisions, and collaborate with product, engineering, and customer-facing teams.

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.

Leads reliability and maintainability activities across unmanned aircraft product lifecycles. Develops R&M architectures, reliability predictions, FMEA/FMECA, fault trees, reliability block diagrams, FRACAS processes, test plans, and reliability growth programs. Conducts failure investigations, corrective actions, maintenance analyses, and R&M risk mitigation. Presents analyses and compliance status to customers during milestone and design reviews, while ensuring adherence to defense reliability standards.

Own and scale Cribl’s corporate IT systems, including Okta identity, AWS infrastructure, endpoint management, ServiceNow, SaaS integrations, automation, and AI tool governance. Lead lifecycle workflows, security baselines, compliance reporting, incident escalation, and on-call operations while partnering with Security, Enterprise Applications, Finance, Compliance, and People teams.

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.

Leads the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise infrastructure, cloud services, identity, endpoint management, and monitoring systems. Drives automation, security hardening, incident response, root-cause analysis, migrations, disaster recovery, and operational improvements. Mentors junior administrators, maintains technical documentation, manages vendor escalations, and supports cross-functional technology initiatives. Requires strong infrastructure, cloud, security, troubleshooting, scripting, observability, and IT service management expertise.

Designs and delivers EPMS, electrical telemetry, and industrial controls solutions for Microsoft AI datacenters. Responsibilities include defining instrumentation and communications requirements, configuring EPMS hardware and networks, developing system integrations, testing and commissioning technologies, troubleshooting complex electrical and controls issues, producing technical documentation, and coordinating with multidisciplinary engineering, vendor, commissioning, and deployment teams.

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.

Owns end-to-end system architecture for robotic manipulation platforms. Defines requirements, functional allocations, interfaces, roadmaps, and architecture documentation; leads cross-domain requirements decomposition, trade studies, integration, verification, validation, and acceptance planning. Drives technical decisions, manages architectural risks, establishes systems engineering governance, and mentors engineering teams through design and architecture reviews.