System Engineer
$108,400–$227,500 year
HybridLisle, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Establish and maintain system baselines including functional, performance, and interface requirements for Electronic Warfare mission systems. Lead requirements definition through evaluation of customer high-level system requirements and capability need statements with customer and engineering team technical interactions. Manage requirements traceability from mission needs through verification and validation while coordinating solutions across multiple physical locations. Apply deep understanding of EW operational concepts, tactics, techniques, and procedures to translate mission needs into technical requirements for threat detection, identification, geolocation, jamming, and countermeasures. Develop and document system and software architectures that meet EW mission requirements and operational constraints, decomposing functional requirements to software, hardware, RF, signal processing, and other engineering disciplines. Serve as primary technical interface between system-level engineering and specialized engineering teams, facilitating requirements understanding across software, signal processing, RF, hardware, and integration teams.
Required Qualifications
- Strong background in software architecture, software requirements specification, and software-intensive system design
- Understanding of Agile, DevSecOps, and CI/CD practices in DoD environments
- 5+ years of experience in EW systems development, integration, or operations, or equivalent system complexity
- Understanding of EW operational disciplines with working knowledge of how mission requirements translate to system capabilities
- Knowledge of RF propagation, antenna systems, receiver/transmitter architectures, and signal processing
- Understanding of test and evaluation methodologies applied to EW systems
- 7+ years of systems engineering experience with at least 3 years in requirements development
- Demonstrated ability to decompose system requirements to software, hardware, and firmware subsystems
- Experience with verification and validation planning and execution
- Experience documenting and maintaining system engineering artifacts including: System architecture descriptions and diagrams, Interface control documents (ICDs), Requirements specifications and traceability matrices, Data flow and sequence diagrams, Trade study and technical analysis experience
- BS in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
- US Citizenship and ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance
Desired Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI security clearance preferred
- INCOSE CSEP or ESEP certification
- Familiarity with open systems architecture standards (CMOSS, SOSA, FACE)
- Understanding of software testing frameworks and automated test development
- Familiarity with formal requirements and design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.)
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