Sr. Associate, Systems Engineer

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Job Title:
Sr. Associate, Systems Engineer

Job Code: 40325

Job Location:
Salt Lake City, Utah

Job Schedule: 9/80 Work Schedule - employees work 9 out of 14 days, totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off

The role encompasses systems engineering activities across hardware, software, and integrated system solutions, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with customer requirements, industry standards, and organizational objectives. The Sr Associate Systems Engineer will apply systems engineering principles and methodologies to drive technical decision-making, facilitate stakeholder collaboration, and ensure successful delivery of engineering solutions throughout all phases of the system development lifecycle – from the proposal phase of a program to customer fielding end user support.

• Assist in the planning and execution of technical tasks in a focused, high-productivity, collaborative environment while maintaining alignment with program objectives and milestones.
• Manage and track customer, derived, and allocated requirements across all system levels, including decomposition and allocation of requirements based on system-level analysis and design, ensuring traceability and bidirectional linkage from a verification test matrix to customer and system-level derived requirements.
• Support the development of technical specifications, interface control documents, system architecture documentation, test plans and procedures, configuration analysis and processing solutions, verification and validation strategies, and test reports documenting conformance to specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Design, develop, integrate, and test systems as part of a cross-functional team, applying systems engineering principles to ensure technical performance, interoperability, quality, and compliance with requirements. This may require hands‑on testing in a lab environment.
• Manage tasks to achieve technical compliance within cost and schedule constraints.
• Availability to travel 10–40% of the time to customer and subcontractor sites in support of technical meetings, demonstration events, and verification activities.
• Ability to obtain a secret security clearance.

• Bachelor’s Degree in an applicable engineering or STEM discipline and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience or Graduate Degree in an applicable engineering or STEM discipline. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.

• Presentation and communication skills (verbal/written/visual) with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills with the ability to meet critical deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Understanding of coordination of projects and roles of multi-disciplinary technical support personnel.
• Experience designing, building, testing, and optimizing complex communications systems, either SATCOM or line-of-sight, for military applications.
• Experience working with RF lab test equipment including signal generators, spectrum analyzers, and power meters.
• Familiarity with systems engineering tools and software applications for requirements management, modeling and simulation, configuration management, and technical documentation.
• Knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies and tools.
• Experience supporting customer engagements,…