Top Systems Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Build and operate a distributed telemetry data platform for ingest, processing, indexing, compression, storage, and query. Design APIs, horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, multi-environment deployments, customer data isolation, and high-performance systems supporting petabytes of data and millions of series. Engineers own projects from design through release and operations while solving complex distributed-systems challenges on a small founding team.

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 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.

Develop and test software tools and digital models for emulating cyber-physical and embedded systems. Extend QEMU using C/C++ and Python, rehost firmware, model virtual devices across ARM and PPC architectures, integrate networked simulations, and validate emulator behavior against hardware and software artifacts. The role also supports reverse engineering, technical reporting, and briefings for national security applications.

Own the architecture and roadmap for enterprise endpoint management across macOS, Windows, Linux, mobile, and research environments. Establish configuration-as-code, zero-touch provisioning, security integration, vulnerability management, observability, staged rollouts, and automated remediation. Build tooling and automation, support complex endpoint issues, mentor engineers, and lead initiatives across IT, Security, Research Computing, and Lab Operations while improving device security and employee productivity.

Leads complex infrastructure migrations, systems integration, enterprise troubleshooting, security tool deployments, infrastructure-as-code automation, and performance engineering. Investigates outages using packet analysis, log correlation, and kernel debugging across Windows, Linux, and Cisco environments. Requires advanced network and systems expertise, federal or defense experience, high-level certifications, a technical degree, and Secret or potentially Top Secret clearance.

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.

Designs, builds, and maintains EDI integrations connecting WHOOP with vendors, logistics providers, and external partners. Responsibilities include implementing ANSI X12 and EDIFACT transaction sets, managing integration infrastructure, mapping and transforming data, onboarding trading partners, testing cutovers, monitoring data flows, and improving automation. The role collaborates with Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, and external stakeholders while supporting scalable enterprise architecture and system interoperability.

Manage and support enterprise Windows infrastructure across physical, virtual, VMware, Citrix, Nutanix, and cloud environments. Responsibilities include monitoring, incident response, patch management, security hardening, performance optimization, lifecycle planning, migrations, software implementations, and cloud integration. The role requires troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues, supporting mission-critical systems after hours, and collaborating on technical projects and modernization initiatives.

Designs, develops, tests, troubleshoots, and debugs software systems and subsystems for storage-related products. The engineer implements enhancements, analyzes coding and integration requirements, writes testing plans and documentation, identifies software issues, and collaborates with internal and outsourced development teams to deliver reliable solutions.

The Staff Engineer will architect and develop mixed-signal ICs and SDR chips, managing requirements and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project execution.

Lead systems engineering for orthopedic robotic medical devices, including requirements management, system-level risk analysis, architecture development, subsystem integration, interface management, verification and validation, sustaining engineering, and regulatory submissions. Collaborate across hardware, electrical, software, marketing, and testing teams while ensuring compliance with medical-device standards. Coach team members on systems-engineering methodologies and support product development throughout the lifecycle.

Owns the IT aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including technical due diligence, risk assessment, integration planning, migrations, cutovers, and systems retirement. The role administers identity, applications, endpoints, infrastructure, and collaboration platforms while building automation and an M&A playbook. It partners with Security, Legal, Corporate Development, People, Finance, and IT teams, and contributes to broader Corporate Systems projects when acquisition work is limited.

Designs, implements, and operates integrated simulation testbeds for space and defense systems. Responsibilities include modeling algorithms and command-and-control systems, executing test plans, analyzing system performance, defining evaluation criteria, reporting findings, collaborating with research and software teams, briefing customers and executives, and supporting proposals. Requires technical experience in space defense, sensor systems, modeling and simulation, and scientific programming, plus eligibility for a Secret clearance.

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.

Supports the Air Force E-7 program through systems engineering, acquisition documentation, requirements analysis, technical reviews, risk and configuration management, trade studies, system validation, and lifecycle engineering. Develops requirements and certification approaches, evaluates system concepts and proposals, supports verification and validation, and prepares engineering plans, assessments, and technical documentation. The role is hybrid at Hanscom Air Force Base and requires active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Design, implement, maintain, and automate enterprise IT systems spanning identity, endpoint management, SaaS platforms, integrations, and access lifecycle management. The role handles projects and technical escalations end to end, documents configurations and runbooks, measures system impact, supports security audits, and participates in after-hours on-call. It requires foundational systems administration, device management, scripting, APIs, SSO, SCIM, and AI-assisted troubleshooting skills.

Own the design, administration, reliability, security, and roadmap of enterprise identity, endpoint, and SaaS systems. Lead SSO, SCIM, device management, integrations, automation, and AI-assisted workflow projects end to end. Translate ambiguous business needs into scalable solutions, troubleshoot complex incidents, maintain audit-ready controls, evaluate vendors, document systems, mentor engineers, and participate in an after-hours on-call rotation.

Provides senior systems engineering support for a Foreign Military Sales Japan program within the Air Force ISR/SOF portfolio. Responsibilities include portfolio reviews, requirements and architecture analysis, technical baseline and configuration management, system validation and testing, trade studies, risk management, technical reviews, acquisition and sustainment support, and engineering documentation. The role is based at Hanscom Air Force Base and supports systems development, integration, deployment, fielding, and operations oversight.

Lead the architecture, design, development, integration, testing, and deployment of advanced radar systems. Research RF sensing approaches, translate customer needs into system concepts, define requirements and architectures, conduct simulations and performance analysis, and guide multidisciplinary teams across software, hardware, integration, and test. The role also involves customer briefings, technical reviews, modeling in Cameo, verification planning, and technical leadership of advanced development projects.

Lead and support systems engineering for cloud-based enterprise systems across architecture, integration, testing, deployment, sustainment, and modernization. Develop technical baselines and architecture documentation, coordinate cloud and cybersecurity integrations, support configuration management and RMF activities, analyze risks and system performance, maintain Splunk security dashboards, execute vulnerability scans, implement STIGs, and provide technical recommendations and reports to stakeholders.

Designs, implements, patches, monitors, and supports on-premises and cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, virtualization, storage, backups, security appliances, identity management, and endpoints. Ensures system availability, performance, reliability, compliance, and disaster recovery. Leads infrastructure projects, troubleshoots complex issues, develops automation and monitoring solutions, protects data assets, and provides technical documentation, training, and guidance to IT teams.

Own Anthropic’s endpoint platform, including MDM infrastructure, macOS and mobile configuration as code, patching, zero-touch provisioning, telemetry, compliance controls, and automation. Operate the platform as a production service with observability, incident response, progressive rollouts, and rollback. Partner with Security, developer, and infrastructure teams on endpoint hardening and trusted-device access. Support Linux systems, document platform operations, and provide advanced escalation support.

Own the reliability, availability, performance, observability, and security of Ophelia’s GCP telehealth platform. Define SLOs, improve monitoring and incident response, expand Terraform infrastructure, strengthen CI/CD, manage disaster recovery, and address latency and Cloud Run performance. Lead on-call maturity, HIPAA/SOC 2 infrastructure controls, and reliability education for engineers. Use AI-assisted tools for automation and incident triage while partnering with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Designs, deploys, integrates, validates, and operates infrastructure supporting large-scale AI compute clusters. Responsibilities include Linux systems, virtualization, storage, identity and security services, infrastructure automation, provisioning, testing, production acceptance, Tier 3 escalation, troubleshooting, reliability optimization, and lifecycle management. The role collaborates with engineering teams, vendors, NOC personnel, SREs, and data center technicians across multiple sites, including travel for commissioning and complex troubleshooting.