Sunday, October 30, 2016

INCOSE San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Nov 14 Wine Social

INCOSE San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Nov 14 Wine Social 🍷


Date :  Monday, Nov 14, 2016  5:30 - 7:30 PM

Location: Vino Vino Wine Bar, 199 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

Thinking of joining?
Already a member and want to get more involved?
Want your ideas heard?
Just want some free appetizers and an excuse to socialize?
Here’s your opportunity!

You are invited to a chapter social.  Help us celebrate another successful year of the SFBAC.  Chapter officers and Board of Director members will be there to hear your ideas for future meetings and chapter activities.  Members, their guests, and prospective members welcome!



Plenty of free parking across the street

Chapter will provide free appetizers. Pay for your own wine.  Can be purchased by the glass, carafe, or a flight of 4 wines. 

Hope to see you there!

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INCOSE is a not-for-profit membership organization founded to develop and disseminate the interdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems. The SFBAC presents thought-provoking monthly programs for its members and their guests.
Learn more about INCOSE at:   http://www.incose.org/

For any questions about the event, please contact Colleen Farrell at colleen.farrell@baesystems.com

Friday, October 14, 2016

Job Opportunity at AGCO


Senior Systems Engineer

AGCO is currently seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our global Electronics Diagnostics team in Hesston, KS.  The Senior Systems Engineer will join a team developing the next generation global AGCO diagnostic tool.  The Senior Systems Engineer will be a key team member to manage requirements, coordinate with global teams working on related projects, drive standards implementation, and lead the team in proactively analyzing potential issues and recommending corrective actions.  This position has global impact with lead products in France, Germany, and Finland and future adoption around the world.

Note: Up to 25% domestic and international travel may be required for the role

Responsibilities of the Senior Systems Engineer:
  • Serve as a Technical Project Lead; coordinate the activities of others and manage stakeholder expectations
  • Develop and maintain system requirements and conceptual system documentation
  • Assess requirements and present recommendations that align with AGCO’s strategic vision
  • Ensure that system views are consistent, coherent, and detailed
  • Identify reference data and determine source; ensure system reuses existing
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for Systems Engineering methods, frameworks, and tools

Required Qualifications and Education of the Senior Systems Engineer:
  • Strong analytic skills and experience, including functional decompositions, requirements capture, and process modeling.
  • Ability to define common interfaces for software and hardware based systems.
  • Use ‘system of systems’ engineering development, partitioning of functionality among applications and components, and application interfaces/interoperability to address complexity concerns.
  • Use of software development methodologies and agile approach to systems development.
  • Experience as the technical focal point of a globally distributed team of professionals within the business, applications/systems, data/information and technical disciplines.
  • Excellent communication skills to be able to clearly explain the recommended approach to the business sponsors and stakeholders.
  • Ability to create diagrams and pictures to show design options and lead discussion to a solution
  • Proficiency with systems diagramming techniques such as UML and SysML methodologies
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field

Preferred Qualifications of the Senior Systems Engineer:
  • 2+ years of experience working with telemetry or electronic controls diagnostic systems
  • 1+ years of hands-on work with Ethernet-based networks or control system communication networks such as CAN bus protocols: UDS, J1939, ISO 11783, KWP2000
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Systems Engineering
 
Link to Apply: 

About Hesston
Only 35 minutes from Wichita, Hesston is a place where industry, recreation, and families blossom, offering many amenities found in a larger city but in a small town atmosphere. Hesston’s appeal goes nationwide; more than a third of the residents hail from outside the Kansas state lines.

Benefits
AGCO offers competitive benefits including options and choices to fit your needs such as medical, dental, prescription drug, life and accident insurance, long and short term disability, matching 401k plan, employee assistance program, and discounted home and auto insurance.

Why AGCO?
At AGCO you have a voice and the opportunity to impact our long-term success, as well as your own.  As a Fortune 500 company and one of the global leaders in agricultural equipment manufacturing, we have an extensive network of approximately 3,000 dealers and serve more than 140 countries. We are celebrating our 25th year in business, and pride ourselves on competitive relocation and employee benefit packages. While headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, AGCO has manufacturing facilities all over the world creating and distributing their full-line of products, including Challenger, Fendt, GSI, Massey Ferguson, and Valtra. Join AGCO and become part of a diverse team and grow your career in ways you never imagined. It’s time to embrace your infinite possibilities!

AGCO is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Segment: Project Engineer, Agricultural, Engineer, Electrical, Systems Engineer, Engineering, Agriculture


Nearest Major Market: Wichita 

Job Segment: Agricultural, Manufacturing Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Engineer, Electrical, Agriculture, Engineering

Stefan Gartner, Lead Talent Sourcer
AGCO Talent Acquisition Group