Top Systems Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Maintains and improves embedded firmware and electronics for connected beverage machines in production and the field. Responsibilities include diagnosing hardware and firmware failures, implementing corrective actions, debugging microcontrollers and embedded Linux platforms, supporting board-level changes, managing component obsolescence and second sourcing, improving manufacturing tests and yields, and collaborating with quality, software, supply chain, and contract manufacturers. The role also supports regulatory compliance, documentation, fleet reliability, and field troubleshooting.

Build and maintain engineering-led business systems supporting CRM, revenue operations, sales, and growth. Develop integrations, internal tooling, automations, and AI-powered production workflows across the modern go-to-market stack. Write and deploy code through Git and CI/CD, collaborate with non-engineering stakeholders, evaluate no-code and low-code solutions, and establish maintainable release practices for a growing Business Systems team.

Lead DoD systems development programs using MBSE, SysML, Cameo, and digital engineering practices. Architect systems, guide teams through the systems engineering lifecycle, establish requirements traceability, customize and automate modeling tools, mentor engineers, and collaborate with software and domain experts. The role supports software-intensive, open-architecture systems across defense mission areas and requires an active Secret clearance with eligibility for Top Secret.

Develop, test, and deploy scalable internal software, APIs, data pipelines, automations, and integrations supporting business operations. Collaborate with Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, Membership Services, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions. Maintain systems including NetSuite, Salesforce, Stripe, and Boomi, while improving reliability, security, and performance. Contribute to engineering best practices and mentor engineers across teams.

Leads Finance technology integrations and AI-first automation across ERP, procure-to-pay, billing, revenue, and accounting workflows. Designs Workato integrations, AI-powered workflows, agents, and copilots; resolves operational issues; supports SOX audits; and establishes scalable architecture, governance, and standards. Partners with Finance, IT, Security, Legal, Data, and GTM Systems teams to translate business needs into compliant solutions, enable nontechnical users, and measure automation outcomes.

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.

Design and operate large-scale infrastructure supporting GPU- and CPU-based EDA workloads. Build automation for provisioning, configuration, deployment, lifecycle management, monitoring, health remediation, cluster enrollment, and recovery across Linux compute fleets. Integrate services with schedulers, infrastructure systems, and observability platforms. Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and reliability improvements while collaborating with EDA, networking, storage, and hardware teams.

Supports installation, integration, calibration, troubleshooting, upgrades, and acceptance of advanced semiconductor inspection and metrology systems. Diagnoses electro-mechanical, optical, automation, software, and subsystem issues across laboratory, manufacturing, and customer environments. Collaborates with engineering, field service, manufacturing, product support, supply chain, and customers to resolve escalations, document findings, improve system reliability, and reduce downtime. The role is primarily onsite in Wilmington, Massachusetts, with domestic and international travel up to 60%.

Supports installation, integration, qualification, calibration, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, and field readiness of advanced semiconductor inspection and metrology systems. Diagnoses electro-mechanical, optical, automation, software, and subsystem issues; executes testing; documents corrective actions; and coordinates with engineering, service, manufacturing, supply chain, and customers. The role is primarily onsite in Wilmington, Massachusetts, requires domestic and international travel up to 60%, and involves laboratory, manufacturing, cleanroom, and customer-site work.

Leads systems engineering for semiconductor inspection and metrology products, including requirements definition, system architecture, interface management, trade studies, integration, verification, risk analysis, and technical issue resolution. Partners across engineering and business functions, supports customer escalations, mentors engineers, and drives technical execution for complex product and customer programs. The role is primarily on-site in Wilmington, Massachusetts, with domestic and international travel up to 40%.

Own end-to-end antenna design for connected consumer products, from architecture and prototyping through mass production. Responsibilities include RF component selection, PCB layout, antenna integration, tuning, simulation, validation, compliance testing, and production support. The engineer will collaborate with mechanical, firmware, product, and overseas manufacturing teams while optimizing performance, size, power, reliability, and manufacturability. The role requires advanced experience with electrically small multiband antennas, RF laboratory measurements, antenna fabrication methods, and automation using Python.

Performs subsystem and system-level integration and testing of advanced RF hardware and software systems. Develops test software, scripts, plans, and procedures; verifies interfaces, algorithms, and requirements; analyzes test data; communicates results; supports technical reviews and field testing. Works with systems, software, and domain engineering teams in SIL and operational environments, contributing to the integration and deployment of defense systems.

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 CICS systems engineer responsible for CICS engineering, maintenance, performance tuning, debugging and dump analysis in a 24x7 Sysplex/CICSPlex environment. Interface with developers and operations, perform upgrades and SMP/E maintenance, monitor with Sysview/CICS tools, support WebSphere MQ and COBOL applications, and provide on-call support to resolve production issues.

Lead systems engineering for real-time software and complex sensor hardware systems. Apply Model Based Systems Engineering across Agile development, integrate MBSE artifacts with software pipelines, manage requirements, document architectures and APIs, support testing and peer reviews, and collaborate with software engineers and principal investigators. The role supports open architecture standards and requires approximately 5% travel for integration events, customer meetings, and field demonstrations.

Integrates and tests advanced multifunction RF systems across hardware labs, software-in-the-loop environments, and field settings. Develops hardware test sets and test software, executes test plans and procedures, verifies system interfaces against requirements, documents results, and supports technical reviews. Collaborates with domain experts, development teams, and systems engineers to incorporate integration and verification artifacts into digital engineering and MBSE workflows.

Develop and maintain SysML-based system and software architecture models for a medical-device mapping and ablation system. Apply MBSE to connect system functions with software, hardware, APIs, schemas, modules, and firmware. Define interfaces, requirements, allocations, and bidirectional V-model traceability. Support risk analysis, including FMEA, and improve MBSE processes and trace automation while following regulated medical-device development standards.

Lead systems engineering for safety-critical embedded robotic platforms. Responsibilities include defining architectures and firmware requirements, maintaining requirements-to-verification traceability, coordinating safety firmware and test teams, developing HIL/SIL validation plans, conducting HARA, FMEA, and FTA analyses, and compiling safety-case evidence. The role bridges hardware, firmware, and testing while supporting functional safety features, low-level communication protocols, board bring-up, and automated verification.

Leads planning, design, assembly, instrumentation, and execution of T901 engine qualification test vehicles. Develops test plans, manages schedules and critical paths, supports tooling design, leads cross-functional technical teams, resolves issues, conducts design reviews, oversees onsite testing, facilitates post-test inspections, and documents test data, findings, and qualification reports.

Drives performance engineering and scalability across software systems by identifying bottlenecks, optimizing code, queries, databases, and architecture, and implementing fixes. Builds performance frameworks, data-generation tools, benchmarks, and CI/CD automation using k6, JavaScript, Grafana, and InfluxDB. Establishes performance standards, investigates distributed systems and cloud environments, documents architectural decisions, and collaborates with engineering teams to improve throughput, latency, reliability, and efficiency.

Develops, maintains, and improves electro-optical instruments and measurement systems for electronic paper display research. Designs hardware, control electronics, automation software, and experiments; troubleshoots integrated hardware-software systems; supports global R&D teams; researches display drive schemes; and documents intellectual property.

Develop and manage complex systems through product development, integration, testing, production transition, and deployment. Lead test architecture and execution, requirements development, compliance cases, test plans, systems upgrades, and technical data packages. Work with strategic sensors, MEMS, inertial navigation systems, fault-tolerant computing, and test equipment. Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams while analyzing system data, supporting requirements traceability, and communicating technical findings to project leadership.

Lead engineering for ATM and TCR platforms, including infrastructure design, vendor application deployment, automation, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management. Translate business requirements into secure, scalable solutions; coordinate vendors and cross-functional teams; establish engineering standards; document architecture and operations; and mentor technical staff. The role supports highly available, customer-facing banking technology and requires on-site work in Buffalo, New York, one week per month.

Deploys and operates enterprise data platform infrastructure across global regions and secure network zones. Responsibilities include provisioning VMs and appliances with Terraform, configuring Linux, Windows, storage, databases, permissions, networking, certificates, and connectors, validating activity data, managing migrations and upgrades, troubleshooting multi-system issues, and maintaining documentation. The role also requires close client collaboration, change-control coordination, SQL reporting, and continuous platform health monitoring.

Designs, administers, secures, and supports hybrid cloud and on-premises enterprise infrastructure. Responsibilities include Microsoft 365 and Azure administration, Intune endpoint management, Aruba networking, Fortinet firewalls, Windows Server and Active Directory support, CMMC compliance controls, vulnerability remediation, migrations, site deployments, incident escalation, vendor coordination, and technical documentation.