Systems Integration Specialist

About the Company

Xiphos Systems Corporation, founded in 1996, is a vibrant and energetic company in the heart of Montreal's Plateau area. For over 20 years, we have pushed the envelope of what is possible in NewSpace and secured the trust of various space agencies and space companies around the world. The industry has adopted our design approach and, as a result, we have been experiencing several years of rapid, steady growth and the trend is continuing Our vision is to migrate terrestrial computing and network communication techniques into space environments. The company's expertise in networked processors has evolved into a line of high-performance, fault-tolerant flight control and sensor processing hardware and software solutions in wide and varied advanced space applications. Xiphos' primary markets are small satellites, space station applications, as well as lunar landers, rovers, and robotics. We have delivered our standard and custom products all over the world and have been essential to many successful space missions. With low power consumption, high processing power, enhanced flexibility, excellent robustness, and proven functions available off-the-shelf, our Q-cards are increasingly the preferred solution in the fast-growing field of NewSpace.

About the Role

The Systems Integration Specialist will work to ensure that Xiphos' various hardware and software solutions work seamlessly together to deliver a product that meets the specific needs of our clients and to ensure effective delivery of cross-site internal product development initiatives. The role will gather requirements, analyze existing systems and processes, design integration strategies, troubleshoot issues, and oversee implementation of solutions.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Xiphos technical representative in Concept of Operations
• Work with the customers to understand and refine their needs (and intent)
• Clearly identifying the value for the customer
• Coordinating with the various engineering teams (Hardware, Logic, Software, Test, Mechanical) to ensure they are aware of the needs of the customer
• Providing acceptance to the customer once the internal teams are aligned
• Translate customer high-level requirements into integrated system designs
• Ensure the correct generation, validation, verification of system-level requirements, this includes full system: software, logic, hardware and operations
• Ensure Engineering teams keep the needs of the customer top of mind and are collaborating effectively to ensure delivery of the proposed solution
• Allocate requirements to the relevant sub-system/components
• Lead system level design reviews to ensure they meet the requirements of the project
• Ensure lower-level designs conform to the system-level vision: Review requirements, validation, verification, attend and actively participate in design reviews; signoff
• Ensure cross-discipline ICDs are thorough and oversee their refinement throughout the development process, managing conflicting interfaces
• Resolve conflicts between requirements by generating Trade Studies, obtaining consensus of primary stakeholders, and implementing the change of baseline (including making sure they are fully integrated). e.g. The solution to meet a performance requirement will impose a weight penalty that exceeds the weight requirement: lead team to optimize for least impact to the intent of the customer's requirements
• Manage system-level technical risks and opportunities
• Act as Technical support for proposals
• Technical project management: Define Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), derived from the design elements from the system architecture, in conjunction with the technical teams
• Taking technical input to the proposal and establishing the high-level WBS for proposals