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# Principal Systems Engineer at fourth-power

Department: Engineering

**Setup**
: On-site

**Location**
: Bedford, Massachusetts

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: lead/mgmt

**Posted**
: Sep 18, 2026

## Description

Fourth Power is hiring a Principal Systems Engineer for its Engineering team to provide cross-disciplinary systems engineering support across technology development programs. The role owns system-level requirements and traceability, identifies applicable codes and standards, leads formal risk activities, manages subsystem interfaces, supports electrical design reviews, and combines desk-based analysis with shop-floor, laboratory, and test-campaign work. The position is full-time and exempt, based in Bedford, Massachusetts and Middleton, Massachusetts, and requires at least 10 years of systems engineering experience plus a relevant engineering degree or equivalent experience.

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