Senior System Engineer

About BlueHeart Energy Founded in 2016, BlueHeart Energy set out to solve one of the biggest challenges in energy: creating heating and cooling systems that are efficient, affordable, and sustainable. After nearly a decade of research and development, we introduced the BlueHeart engine: a breakthrough thermoacoustic technology designed to deliver high performance with minimal energy use and zero carbon emissions across residential and industrial applications. Our work is driven by innovation, precision engineering, and a commitment to redefining heating and cooling for a sustainable world. About the Role As Senior System Engineer (Thermoacoustic Heat Pump Systems) , you will support the development and integration of BlueHeart Energy's thermoacoustic heat pump technology by translating customer and product requirements into clear system specifications and engineering solutions. You will ensure that system requirements, interfaces, and performance targets are consistently implemented across the product and over the product lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with the Head of Development (who is also our system architect), and the Product and Component Owners to support the development of a reliable, efficient, and compliant heat pump system. In this role, you will drive the requirements management, verification and validation activities, configuration management and product baselining, support system integration (including interface definition and management), participate in technical trade-off analyses, and assist in identifying and mitigating technical risks, helping to ensure that subsystem developments align with overall system objectives. You promote systems thinking throughout the organization by challenging Product and Component Owners in system thinking, and you manage the evidence that the designed system satisfies stakeholder requirements throughout the product lifecycle. This position offers an excellent opportunity to develop a broad system-level perspective while working on innovative sustainable heating technology. You will gain experience across multiple engineering disciplines and play an important role in bridging product requirements and technical implementation. What You’ll Do System Definition & Documentation • Document system- and sub-system architectures, including functional decomposition • Support the definition and documentation of interfaces at the product- and component-level, including the heat pump, the BH unit, and the controls • Maintain the overview of the system design specification, including high-level assessment of compliance to the customer and product requirements System Design & Integration • (Over time) Build system models to analyze the functional behavior of the system to verify that the specified architecture complies with the customer and product requirements and to predict the effect of design changes on overall system behavior • Define the integration strategy for complete system functionality and performance • Lead the FMEA and risk assessment process, facilitating the System Architect and the Product Owners to identify and manage technical risks. • Perform trade-off analyses Requirements & Configuration Management • Lead the requirements management process, including translation of customer and product requirements into system- and component-level requirements, supporting requirements derivation, budget allocation, etc., and managing requirements traceability • Lead the configuration management process, including requirements baseline, product design baseline, as-built configuration control, etc. Verification & Validation Together with the Product and Component owners you: • Develop and track verification strategies • Define acceptance criteria and performance targ