Systems Engineer IV (Electronics)

The Sr. Systems Engineer (Electronics), Contractor is responsible for supporting Rheem’s control development in heat pump, electric, and/or gas water heater product lines through the Advanced Technology Integration organization. This role also plays a critical part supporting our R&D and manufacturing partners.

This position will serve our Enterprise Division, located in  Montgomery, AL (Hybrid).

As the Sr. Systems Engineering (Electronics), Contractor, you will be using your technical and leadership skills to drive and develop our unique electronic control systems.

 

Supported Project Categories:

• Residential Mixed Heating Source Water Heater
• Commercial Mixed Heating Source Water Heater
• Residential Heat pump for Lowboy Water Heater

 

General Role Responsibilities and Tasks:

• System Architecture and Design: Support the design of an electronic controller application, ensuring robust, common solutions across Water Heater and Air Conditioning products with the support of our Hardware, Software and R&D organizations.
• Work Product Reviews: Overseeing system work product reviews and ensuring the closure of action items before the release of design documentation and work products.
• Collaborative Engagement: Actively engaging with software, hardware, test, and product development teams throughout the product life cycle, ensuring seamless integration of system engineering work products.
• Requirements Definition: Defining, documenting, and updating controller system requirements and verification plans in collaboration with various teams. System Architecture: Defining and documenting controller system architecture, including key functional blocks, inputs, outputs, and interfaces.
• Verification Excellence: Creating and maintaining a controller traceability matrix, mapping controller requirements to associated verification activities and results, and actively participating in verification activities.
• Product Design Support: Participating in product design reviews to guarantee that control systems meet hardware and software feature requirements.
• Manufacturing Support: Assisting manufacturing engineering and suppliers by contributing to the development of product manufacturing test procedures and control documentation.
• Participate in developing system engineering processes and quality criteria.
• Customer Support/Service Collaboration: Collaborating closely with the customer service team to provide support for product training and ensuring customer satisfaction.

 

Work Product:

This role will require the development, review and publication of Rheem’s Systems Engineering Standard Work Products as well as the ability to review, comment on and support Work Products from our partner organizations. You will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of:

• System Functional Specifications – “What” we are trying to implement, providing the Technical & Functional guidance needed by our Hardware, Software and Cloud teams.
• Functional System / Block Diagrams – Level 0 / Top Level to Level 2 / Physical Design, used to describe and align the Design and Interactions of our Products
• Data Flow Diagrams – Describing the interactions of key system components, including but not limited to operating modes, critical I/Os and algorithms. This will be supported by team members from Hardware, Software and R&D.
• Functionality Requirements – Describing the product functionality needs at critical product milestones, such as Engineering Builds and in Field Trials.
• Test Specifications / Plans – Describing the Board, Test Bench, Systems Level, & End of Line testing expectations for our controls on a given product. Supports the development of Contract Manufacturer Test Requirements and Plans.
• Conduct testing per published Test Specifications / Plans & publish results in a formal Test Report.
• Traceability Matrix – Used to ensure full coverage of Product and Business Requirements through testing.

 

This role may require the design and development of a Control level test bench, general support of laboratory testing and interaction with our Manufacturing, Service and Support teams in the development of your product.

 

This role has a profound impact on Rheem’s product development and innovation.

To excel in this role and make a significant impact, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Systems, Electrical, Computer, or Mechanical discipline)
• 7+ years of experience (10+ preferred) in the development of products with embedded microprocessor-based contr