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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # System Design & Architecture Engineer - **Company:** Base Power Company - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Distributed Systems, Ethernet, Firmware, Hardware Design, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Modbus, Network Architecture, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, Scripting - **Published:** August 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/system-design-and-architecture-engineer-austin-tx--931a945d-309f-47bb-9271-f14a3587496a ## About the Role * 4+ years designing or integrating multi-subsystem electromechanical, embedded, or power-electronics systems, with system-architecture ownership. Experience on a highly integrated system (e.g., automotive) is strongly relevant. * Strong EE fundamentals and stronger firmware fundamentals-able to reason about embedded behavior, communications, and system timing, and to design across the HW/FW boundary. * Very strong physics and first-principles reasoning; strong root-cause analysis on complex, multi-domain problems. * Working knowledge of classical dynamic controls (e.g., understands PID and feedback-loop behavior). * Proficiency with MATLAB/Simulink for modeling and analysis. Able to write Python scripts and quickly build tooling as needed; comfortable expressing designs as state charts and diagrams. * Demonstrated ability to own cross-domain system decisions and drive them to closure without defaulting to design-by-committee., * Experience defining communications architectures (CAN, Ethernet, Modbus) and authority/control flows in a distributed embedded system. * Working knowledge of functional safety concepts and their application to complex systems. * Track record carrying a system from architecture definition through integration and bring-up. * Experience across multiple product domains or system types. * Mechanical engineering depth is not required for this role., Buses, Communications Architecture, Computer Firmware, Distributed Computing, Electricity, Electromechanical Systems, Electronics, Embedded Systems, Ethernet, Follow Through, Hardware Architecture, Hardware Design, Machine Tool, Network Architecture/Engineering, Power Generation, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Root Cause Analysis, System Architecture, System Integration (SI), Systems Engineering, Writing Skills ## Description We are seeking a System Design & Architecture Engineer to own the system-level hardware architecture of multi-subsystem products. This person decides how the subsystems work together as one coherent system, defines where system boundaries fall (which box owns the shared power supply?), and sets the communications, information, authority, and control flows across the system. They write and own requirements during the design phase and transition into a system integration role as the program matures, making the system-level calls that keep cross-domain design work from design-by-committee. What You'll Do * System Architecture: Define the hardware architecture across subsystems-partitioning functions, resolving where system boundaries blur, and making the system-level decisions (e.g., "how many data buses, and at what speed do they operate?") that the implementation teams design to. * Requirements Ownership: Write and own system-level requirements through the design phase, flowing them down to the domain teams and keeping them coherent as the design evolves. * Integration: Transition into the system integration role in later development phases-bringing up the integrated system, owning multi-subsystem behavior, and root-causing issues that fall between domains. * Cross-Domain Decision-Making: Hold system-level authority over architecture decisions while influencing the implementation layer. 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