Systems Engineer
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Job description
At Priva, we are building the next generation of IoT-enabled building automation systems: cloud-connected, security-first, and designed for long-term reliability. As a Senior Requirements Engineer (Systems Engineering / IoT / Cloud), you play a key role in shaping how complex systems are defined, validated, and maintained over their full lifecycle.
You will work on an innovative platform combining embedded systems, edge gateways, and cloud services, ensuring buildings operate safely and efficiently for 10+ years with minimal maintenance.
Your work in requirements engineering and systems engineering ensures clarity, traceability, and quality across hardware and software domains. Your work will directly impact the safety, compliance, and long-term success of our products.
Your role
As a Systems Engineer, you lead the translation of stakeholder needs into clear, structured, and testable requirements. You operate at the heart of our systems engineering process, working closely with product, hardware, software, and QA teams.
You ensure that requirements are consistent, traceable, verifiable, and support the long-term maintainability of our solutions.
What you'll do
- Capture stakeholder needs and translates them into clear, testable requirements and acceptance criteria
- Build and maintain a structured requirements hierarchy aligned with systems engineering principles
- Ensure end-to-end traceability from system requirements to implementation and release artifacts
- Manage bidirectional traceability to support impact analysis (changes, defects, incidents)
- Facilitate requirements workshops, reviews, and stakeholder alignment
- Apply risk-based thinking (e.g. FMEA) to identify failure scenarios
- Define and support Verification & Validation (V&V) strategies
- Maintain versioning, baselining, and change control in line with audit and compliance standards
- Ensure requirements are accessible, maintainable, and usable across teams
Requirements
Do you have experience in Systems engineering?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * 8+ years of experience in requirements engineering / systems engineering for complex systems
- Strong expertise in writing clear, unambiguous, and testable requirements
- Experience working across hardware, embedded systems, and software teams
- Proven experience with requirements management and traceability
- Experience with V-model, lifecycle management, and V&V processes
- Experience with tooling such as DOORS, Polarion, Jama, or Azure DevOps (or similar)
- Experience with baselining, versioning, and change control
- Comfortable facilitating workshops and aligning stakeholders
- Experience in IoT, embedded systems, or building automation
Nice to have
- Familiarity with BACnet, Modbus, KNX
- Experience with ISO 27001, IEC 62443, or similar standards
- Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), UML or SysML
Benefits & conditions
Pulled from the full job description
- Professional development assistance
- Pension plan
- Commuter assistance
- Flexible schedule, * Competitive salary and benefits package for senior engineers
- Flexible working hours and 30 vacation days, with the option to buy more
- 8% holiday allowance
- Travel allowance of €0.23/km (max. 150 km per day)
For Your Well-Being and Growth
- Solid pension plan and participation scheme
- Personal development budget and training opportunities
- Healthy cafeteria
- Free on-site gym with CrossFit, Pilates, Spinning, table tennis, and table football
Our Culture and values
At Priva, our mission is to create environments where people can work, grow, and thrive. We deliver sustainable solutions for horticulture and building automation that reduce resource consumption and contribute to global sustainability goals.
Our culture is built on four core values: Sustainable, Innovative, Make it Happen, and Human.
Colleagues describe Priva as open, ambitious, innovative, friendly, and down-to-earth. We offer a flat, informal, and fast-paced environment where you are encouraged to take ownership and grow.
We believe diversity drives success. We welcome people from all backgrounds and perspectives and create a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to be their authentic self.
