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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director of Systems Engineering R&D - **Company:** ONE STOP COLLECTIBLE CORP - **Location:** Houston, TX, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, Network Interface Controllers, Release Management, Verification and Validation (Software), Hardware Testing - **Published:** October 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/director-of-systems-engineering-rd-onenergy-10266376 ## About the Role * B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related field; M.S. or Ph.D. preferred. * 12+ years in complex power, energy, industrial, or electromechanical product development, including significant systems engineering responsibility and leadership of technical teams. * Demonstrated success managing and developing Systems Engineers or multidisciplinary teams, including resource planning, hiring, performance management, and capability development. * Proven success leading products through concept, requirements, architecture, detailed development, qualification, production release, and field deployment. * Direct experience with grid-scale BESS, power conversion systems, uninterruptible power supplies, or adjacent power and energy hardware is strongly preferred. * Strong command of requirements engineering, architecture, interface control, trade studies, technical risk, verification and validation, configuration management, and design review governance. * Working knowledge of relevant grid, safety, product, and reliability standards, with the ability to resolve complex issues and communicate clearly with engineers, executives, suppliers, and customers., Agency Notice: ON.energy does not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters. Resumes submitted without a fully executed Master Services Agreement (MSA) and a written request from an authorized member of our Talent Acquisition team will be considered the property of ON.energy. No placement fees or compensation will be paid for unsolicited candidate submissions. ## Description * Lead ON.energy's Systems Engineering team and the practices that translate product strategy, customer needs, grid requirements, and technology opportunities into complete, verifiable system solutions. * Establish practical systems engineering governance across product architecture, requirements, interfaces, technical risk, verification, qualification, and design transfer. * Build team capability and technical ownership for grid-scale energy storage, power conversion, UPS, and advanced power quality products from concept through field deployment. Team Leadership and Capability * Lead, coach, and develop Systems Engineers; define roles, ownership, capability gaps, hiring priorities, and workload balance across active product and customer programs. * Set objectives, provide feedback, support performance management, and build the technical depth required for ON.energy's product roadmap. * Act as product lead engineering interface to sales, sales engineering, and project engineering Systems Engineering Practice and Governance * Define and improve the lifecycle for concept definition, requirements, architecture, interfaces, design reviews, technical risk, verification planning, configuration control, and design transfer. * Establish practical templates, tools, review criteria, decision records, interface documents, and evidence expectations without creating unnecessary process burden. Product Architecture and Technical Direction * Guide system architectures for grid-scale energy storage, power conversion, UPS, and advanced power quality products across performance, safety, controls, protection, thermal, mechanical, cybersecurity, serviceability, and lifecycle requirements. * Assign design authorities, resolve cross-disciplinary conflicts, and ensure structured trade studies covering performance, cost, schedule, manufacturability, supplier capability, reliability, and product risk. * Document major technical decisions, assumptions, constraints, and rationale in a way that can be reused across future programs. Requirements, Interfaces, and Risk * Ensure requirements are complete, testable, traceable, and aligned with product strategy, customer commitments, regulations, grid codes, and standards. * Oversee disciplined flow-down to subsystems, components, software, controls, verification, and release criteria. * Establish management of electrical, mechanical, thermal, controls, communications, and operational interfaces across internal teams, suppliers, customer systems, and project applications. * Maintain technical risk visibility across the product portfolio and drive early retirement through modeling, prototyping, supplier testing, design reviews, and root-cause investigations. Verification, Qualification, and Product Execution * Direct system-level verification and validation linking requirements to analysis, simulation, inspection, hardware testing, and field evidence. * Define acceptance criteria, evidence plans, review readiness, and qualification strategy early in the product lifecycle. * Coordinate qualification across laboratory, factory, national lab, supplier, and field environments. * Align product intent, technical scope, schedules, and release criteria with Product Management, Program Management, discipline engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Deployment, and Service. * Set expectations for supplier technical deliverables, reviews, interface compliance, and qualification evidence; ensure validated designs transition effectively into manufacturing, commissioning, and service. Stakeholder Communication * Present architecture, decisions, risk, requirements maturity, verification status, interface dependencies, and review readiness clearly to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. * Coordinate communications and engineering efforts across integrated product teams of disciplinary subject matter experts and product managers who report into other functional leaders * Represent Systems Engineering in strategic customer, partner, supplier, standards, and technical due diligence discussions.