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Role Purpose
As Lead Systems Engineer, you'll hold the highest level of technical ownership on our Systems Engineering track, joining a dispersed, cross-disciplinary team of hardware, software, and electrical engineers. You'll lead the technical delivery of complex, integrated tolling systems, bringing together roadside hardware, embedded devices, applications, and back-office software into a fully operational solution. This role requires someone with demonstrated experience delivering tolling systems in real-world environments, ideally having led major system delivery activities over multiple years. You'll take ownership from the bid and solution development phases through engineering, installation, integration, commissioning, and operational handoff. You'll be accountable for ensuring the technical solution is delivered to customer requirements, contractual commitments, quality expectations, and operational objectives.
You'll be the technical face of the client relationship, building trust with customer stakeholders throughout the life of a program while leading the engineering teams responsible for successful delivery. You'll own the requirements baseline, manage technical scope, coordinate complex hardware and software dependencies, and provide the technical direction needed to move programs forward.
This is an opportunity for an experienced systems engineering leader who understands what it takes to deliver tolling infrastructure—not just design it—and who can translate complex technical requirements into successful, operational systems.
How You'll Make an Impact
Lead end-to-end tolling system delivery — Take technical ownership of tolling system implementations from bid-phase sales support and solution development through engineering, installation, integration, testing, commissioning, and operational handoff. Ensure the system is delivered efficiently, meets contractual and technical requirements, and achieves the intended operational outcomes.
Bring proven tolling delivery experience — Apply practical experience delivering tolling systems and roadside infrastructure programs, anticipating the technical, operational, integration, and implementation challenges that arise throughout the project lifecycle.
Serve as the primary technical point of contact — Lead technical discussions with customers, understand their business and operational objectives, communicate tradeoffs clearly, manage expectations, and navigate difficult technical or scope conversations with professionalism and sound judgment.
Own the requirements baseline end-to-end — Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, decomposition, specification, validation, traceability, and change control from the first customer conversation through final acceptance. Translate customer needs and contractual requirements into clear, testable, and achievable system requirements.
Manage requirements and scope as the solution evolves — Establish and maintain requirements traceability across hardware, software, electrical, integration, installation, and verification activities. Identify gaps, ambiguities, dependencies, and risks before they become program issues.
Own the integrated solution end-to-end — Maintain technical accountability for the complete system architecture and implementation, ensuring roadside hardware, embedded devices, applications, and back-office systems function together as one cohesive solution.
Provide technical leadership during implementation — Guide…