Systems Architect
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full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: North Reading • Massachusetts • United States
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About the role
- Develop and maintain the overall system architecture, with strong emphasis on mechanical subsystem structure, interfaces, reliability, and manufacturability.
- Lead the creation, decomposition, and management of system-level requirements, ensuring alignment with the needs of Marketing, Sales, and Applications organizations.
- Translate customer use cases and operational needs into clear mechanical, electrical and system-level requirements.
- Evaluate architectural tradeoffs involving mechanical and electrical performance, structural rigidity, environmental robustness, motion systems, thermal constraints, serviceability, and lifecycle cost.
- Serve as the cross-discipline technical lead, with responsibility for ensuring electromechanical designs adhere to the system architecture.
- Drive interface clarity between mechanical, electrical and software subsystems.
- Champion design standards, modeling approaches, tolerance philosophies.
- Mentor junior engineers.
- Oversee system-level integration activities with strong attention to mechanical fit, alignment, tolerance stack-ups, structural dynamics, thermal management, and motion system behavior.
- Guide teams in performing system-level analyses (FEA, thermal simulations, motion profiles, load paths, vibration and acoustic assessments).
- Support engineering in root-cause analysis of system-level issues.
- Create and maintain system architecture documents, requirements and design verification plans.
- Clearly communicate architectural decisions, design rationale, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute to customer-facing technical engagement when system design clarity is needed to shape scope or expectations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in design, system architecture, or systems engineering for electromechanical platforms.
- Demonstrated expertise in mechanical system design, including structures, mechanisms, thermal design, tolerance analysis, and reliability engineering.
- Proven ability to define, decompose, and maintain system-level requirements across multiple engineering disciplines.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams through concept development, trade studies, design reviews, and integration cycles.
- Strong understanding of how mechanical architecture impacts electrical, firmware, control, and software subsystem decisions.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex mechanical and system-level concepts clearly.
Benefits
- Teradyne offers a variety of robust health and well-being benefit programs, including medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, and more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
mechanical system designsystem architectureelectromechanical designthermal designtolerance analysisreliability engineeringsystem-level requirementssystem-level analysesFEAmotion systems
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingtechnical engagementclarity in design rationalecustomer engagementteam guidancearticulation of complex concepts
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineeringBachelor’s degree in electrical engineeringMaster’s degree in mechanical engineeringMaster’s degree in electrical engineering