Staff Engineer – Survivability, Mission Integration

Responsibilities

• Lead an interdisciplinary team on key efforts to develop novel Electronic Warfare subsystems on developmental NGAS programs
• Contribute to the overall development of HW/SW subsystems, including developing functional architectures, analyzing performance, managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements
• Lead a team to design, develop, build, and test EW components, equipment, systems, and networks in conjunction with key suppliers
• Responsibly manage technical aspects of program strategic partners and suppliers, including development, acquisition, acceptance, qualification, system integration, and test support
• Lead and support technical discussions with the customer and maintain daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams
• Guide the team through development/implementation activities
• Perform risk analysis, develop mitigation plans, and track to closure
• Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders to integrate avionics and mission subsystems to meet platform mission objectives
• Develop supplier documentation such as procurement specifications, statements of work, and review artifacts from the supplier’s development effort
• Document designs using detailed schematics, diagrams, and specifications
• Support development and integration of HW/SW subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives
• Develop integrated HW/SW integration and test approaches across NGAS programs
• Perform functional and performance analyses
• Conduct detailed trade studies
• Perform analyses and estimate performance of components, subsystems, and systems in accordance with governmental and commercial standards
• Configure, test, document, and troubleshoot avionics and mission systems

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 12 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university AND 10 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. AND 8 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering
• Knowledge of electromagnetics in the RF spectrum (VHF through Ka bands)
• Experience with Electronic Warfare, Electronic Support, and multifunction subsystems
• Experience in RF/EW applications, including developing and applying models in Matlab, Python, and/or C/C++, along with experience in tracking and algorithm development
• Familiarity with 1 or more RF sensing modalities and their applications
• Experience in decomposing, deriving, allocating and tracing requirements from system to component level
• Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work
• Experience in supplier/subcontract management
• Experience with working on a multidisciplinary team and writing technical proposals
• Experience designing, developing, integrating, and/or testing RF equipment for airborne platforms
• Knowledge of system engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow-down, specification derivation and interface control documentation
• An active U.S. Government issued Top Secret SCI Security Clearance as well as Special Program Access (SAP) within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs.