System Architect - Senior Systems Engineer
Advanced Navigation is the world’s most determined innovator in AI robotics and navigation technologies across land, air, sea and space applications. Founded on a culture of research and discovery, Advanced Navigation's mission is to be the catalyst of the autonomy revolution. Fields of expertise include artificial intelligence, underwater sonar, GNSS, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, quantum sensors and photonics.
Today, Advanced Navigation is a supplier to some of the world's largest companies, including Airbus, Boeing, Google, Tesla, NASA, Apple, and General Motors. Discover it for yourself: https://youtu.be/F7uAqs1gtuk
OVERVIEW OF ROLE
As a Systems Architect within the Navigation Solutions team, you will be responsible for the design and realisation of an architectural update to our existing product range as well as expanding out our product ecosystem within a consistent architectural framework. You will own the architectural design from a high level system wide down to a component level. Your work will directly impact how users interact with our product family, how we design and update our product offering and how well our Product Architecture services the realisation of our vision.
RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Product Ecosystem
Ensure that architectural decisions we make at a design and configuration level are in service of the bigger picture vision for our product roadmap.
How our products operate in isolation, in conjunction with each other and with compatible third party systems.
Work with the Product Managers to completely understand customer, product and system requirements to ensure we build things in a way that best aligns with our vision.
2. Hardware Architecture
Work with the Product Engineering team to design common, reusable designs that allow portability across applications.
Ensure supply chain resilience within designs whilst working within COGS and supply chain constraints.
Understand the industry state of the art and ensure designs are aligned with best practice.
Understand the end to end supply chain and ensure designs are robust to supply chain shock and scales to keep up with our growth strategy.
3. Software Architecture
Work with the Software Platform and Product Engineering team to design common, reusable systems and ensure that low level software architectural decisions scale up to fit within our product vision
Work with Product Management to ensure software architecture is fully capable of supporting all required external communication interfaces.
Work with Software Platform leadership to ensure software development is in accordance with requirements under agreed development frameworks such as NIST, AUSDEFCON and others.
4. Continuous Improvement & Culture
Embrace a "Progress over Perfection" mindset by deploying rapid design iterations to gather early feedback from technical internal stakeholders.
Advocate for consistency and efficiency across all products balancing quick delivery and quality.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Electronic/Mechanical or Computer Systems Engineering.
- 10+ years of experience as a design engineer working across multi discipline design teams, preferably within a deep tech, robotics, SaaS-hardware hybrid, or high-reliability manufacturing organization.
- Expert in at least one Engineering discipline, with a competency in the others along with a willingness to learn and update your knowledge, keeping up to date with industry best practice and trends.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills; able to explain complex statistical models to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.
- A curious mindset with an intrinsic drive to learn complex technical frameworks quickly.
- Exceptional attention to detail combined with a bias for action and decisive problem-solving.