System Architect (Engineering Professional)
Location: Hutt Valley, Wellington
Employment Type: Permanent, Full Time
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Salary: $140,000 + Benefits
Start Date: Early 2026

The Company

MAS Zengrange (NZ) Limited (MASZ) designs and manufactures sophisticated, high-quality electronic engineering products for international clients and is proudly based in Wellington. Our team thrives on innovation, precision, and delivering world-class solutions.

The Role

We’re looking for a skilled System Architect to join our Engineering team and help shape the next generation of safety-critical products. If you enjoy owning system architecture, working across hardware and firmware, and making sure products are safe, robust, and rock-solid in the field — this is your kind of role.

What You’ll Do:
As a System Architect, you will lead the development and maintenance of robust system architectures, ensuring seamless integration of hardware, software, and firmware interfaces while meeting functional safety and operational performance requirements. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Lead the definition and documentation of system-level requirements

• Develop and maintain system architecture compliant with IEC 61508 to SIL 3

• Perform hazard and risk analyses including HARA, FMEA, FMEDA

• Allocate safety and functional requirements across hardware, software and interfaces

• Define redundancy, diagnostics and safe-state mechanisms

• Oversee system integration and verification planning

• Manage test plans, traceability matrices and system-level V&V

• Support functional safety assessments and safety case preparation

• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, software, test and production teams

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related discipline preferred but not required.

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in Functional Safety, Systems Integration, or Project Systems Engineering.

• Strong knowledge of systems engineering lifecycle (requirements, architecture, design, verification, validation, and maintenance).

• Experience with system architecture definition, interface control, and requirements traceability.

• In-depth experience applying IEC 61508 and SIL standards or similar functional-safety standards.

• Strong skills in requirements decomposition and interface control

• Strong technical documentation skills; proficient in MS Word and Excel.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to obtain and maintain security checks.

Desirable:

• Functional Safety Engineer (IEC 61508) certification.

Why Join Us?

We offer an innovative work environment where your expertise will directly impact the development of safety-critical systems. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside talented engineers and be a key contributor to projects that set industry standards.

As an accredited employer with Immigration New Zealand, we welcome applications from New Zealanders and qualified international candidates. This is a full-time, permanent position.

If this sounds like you, apply today with your CV and a cover letter outlining your safety standards development experience on Seek or email [email protected]