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Hexagon's Autonomous Solutions business area is looking for an Intermediate Systems Engineer to join our high-tech engineering and manufacturing company that is committed to customer service excellence and continuous improvement.  Reporting to the Director of Positioning Services, this role will be of interest to someone with planning and organizational skills to work on diverse positioning services projects.

The Company: Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software, and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications. 

Our technologies are shaping the production and people-related ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous — ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.

This position is with Hexagon’s Autonomous Solutions business area, a global technology leader, pioneering end-to-end solutions industry leaders rely on for assured positioning and autonomy on land, sea and air. Our work touches every aspect of life, from sustainability on Earth to enabling autonomy.

Location: Hexagon is a global company with offices around the world. This position is based in Calgary, AB. 

As a Systems Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Contributing to the technical aspects of projects in collaboration with the Chief Engineer, Project Manager and a team of subject matter experts
• Evaluating customer requirements and operational use cases to define and decompose system functional and performance requirements
• Developing and designing system architecture trade-off studies
• Assessing cross domain dependencies, including the simulation and modelling of system components to allow data-driven decisions for optimal system performance
• Continuously evaluating technical risk within the project and proactively working with the team to mitigate
• Systems integration planning and coordination
• Participate in system verification and validation (V&V) activities, ensuring system requirements are fully verified through testing, analysis, inspection, and demonstration.
• Ensuring compliance of the design with the system requirements, standards and specifications while balancing competing business requirements such as cost and time to market
• Completing system and product analyses for reliability, maintainability, testability, usability, survivability, vulnerability, susceptibility, affordability, safety, system security, regulatory, certification, product assurance and other specialties

Must-Have:

• Systems Engineering expertise applied to complex technical solutions
• Strong data analysis skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in mathematics, science or engineering with 3+ years in a systems engineering related role

Key Success Factors:

• Understanding the product development life cycle
• Analytical problem-solving skills with systems thinking
• Strong collaboration, facilitation and interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
• Negotiation and influencing skills
• Strong communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Technical research abilities with the aptitude for sharing of information and expertise
• Strong systems and software architectural design and analysis skills
• Effective application of reliability engineering principles (e.g. FMEA, FTA, RCA, MTBF, etc.)

Nice-to-Have:

• General knowledge of GNSS technologies, or digital communication protocols
• Familiarity with Model Based Systems Engineering (UML, SysML) and related tools, such as Enterprise Architect (EA)
• Expertise with one or more requirements management tools, such as Polarion or DOORS
• Experience working in development environments that follow standards such as ISO-16949, ASPICE, etc.

Not sure if you meet all the qualifications for this role? Let us decide! At Hexagon, we are committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you’re excited about the opportunities this role could bring, we encourage you to apply. Applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at hrrecruitingteam.ap@hexagon.com  

If you have any questions about the role or our company, please email our team at hrrecruitingteam.ap@hexagon.com and we will be pleased to follow up with you. Please do not send cover letters or resumes to this address.