Senior Staff Systems Engineer

About the role

BCubed Engineering, an Auria company, is looking to hire a Senior Staff Systems Engineer to join the team. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality products that meet the requirements, constraints, and goals of our customers. You will apply advanced technical rigor to complex system architectures, managing tasks across the entire development cycle—including design, modeling, implementation, testing, integration, and deployment. At the Senior Staff level, you are expected to make a moderate-to-high organizational impact, managing complex systems tasks while serving as a respected mentor and advanced individual contributor.

Responsibilities

• Systems Engineering Excellence: Apply advanced problem-solving methodologies to the most complex problem sets, architecting and delivering solutions for entire systems and systems of systems.
• Technical Rigor & Acumen: Lead with engineering rigor, ensuring a strict commitment to testing, repeatable processes, comprehensive documentation, and reliable delivery across the entire development lifecycle.
• Customer & Partner Engagement: Act as a key technical point of contact to communicate and negotiate directly with external partners (sub-contractors, vendors, prime contractors) and external customers. Establish and maintain trusted partnerships with customer bases, negotiating through conflicts with transparency and integrity.
• Effective Technical Leadership: Lead the technical execution of projects and initiatives, ensuring engineering processes are upheld. Serve as a prominent, respected mentor across the organization to develop talent and elevate the contributions of your team members.
• End-User Focus: Design architectures and solutions that explicitly reflect the mission needs of the end-user, actively seeking out and embracing feedback with a growth mindset.
• Innovation & IR&D: Pursue and champion innovative technologies and processes. You will have direct access to internal IR&D budgets to back novel concepts by compiling standard quad-charts for approval from the President.
• Requirements & Verification: Author, trace, manage, and validate comprehensive system-level program requirements.
• Technical Milestones: Support the development and executive presentation of major engineering milestone reviews (e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR).
• Technical Artifacts: Generate and maintain critical engineering artifacts, including Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Capability Development Documents (CDDs), Engineering Drawings, system Bill of Materials (BOMs), etc.
• Configuration Management: Maintain development system HW baseline configuration and operations. Implement configuration changes to support verification requirements.
• Documentation & Modeling: Create and update hardware and other procedures, specifications, and work instructions. Create and maintain hardware CAD models, drawings, bills of materials (BOMs), and engineering documentation.
• HW Discrepancy Resolution: Evaluate, disposition, and document returned or suspect hardware. Perform hardware troubleshooting and root cause analysis on failed systems, assemblies, and components.
• Vendor & Supplier Collaboration: Interface with hardware vendors and suppliers to resolve technical issues, qualify components, and support product changes.
• Failure Analysis & Corrective Actions: Trend and analyze hardware failures to identify recurring issues and drive corrective actions. Support engineering change orders (ECOs) and configuration management activities.
• HW Inventory and Lifecycle Planning: Support inventory reviews and recommend repair, reuse, or replacement strategies for hardware assets. Collaborate with design, manufacturing, quality, and test engineering teams to improve hardware reliability and maintainability.
• Trade Studies & Evaluations: Conduct trade studies and technical evaluations of COTS server, networking, and communications equipment to support hardware recapitalization efforts and lifecycle management.
• Reliability Metrics: Track reliability metrics and communicate trends and recommendations to engineering leadership.
• System Build: Execute Initialization and Software Verification Description procedures on system HW devices. Develop and improve automation of configuration procedures. Execute Factory Acceptance Test procedures to verify system build.

Requirements

• Experience: 5–10 years of proven systems engineering experience delivering high-consequence technical solutions. 3+ years of experience supporting hardware products throughout their lifecycle.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline from an accredited university, or equivalent foundational knowledge gained through formal technical apprenticeships and hands-on work experience.
• Domain Knowledge: Experience working with COTS server, networking, or communications hardware.
• Technical Skills: Experience troubleshooting electromechanical or electronic hardware. Experience performing root cause analysis and failure investigations. Experience working in Linux environments, including command-line operation, system configuration, and hardware diagnostics. Experience with CAD tools (e.g., SolidWorks, Creo, AutoCAD, or similar). Experience maintaining engineering drawings, BOMs, and technical documentation.
• Mission Outcome Orientation: Proven track record of navigating the critical “final 10%” of a project life cycle to successfully launch highly mission-critical capabilities into polished, operational products.
• Autonomy & Accountability: Self-directed ownership of complex workloads and team execution plans, coupled with transparent risk communication, immediate roadblock escalation, and shared accountability for team decisions.
• Integrity & Trust: Exceptional standard of professional integrity and ethics, with a commitment to doing what is right under pressure and holding oneself accountable for outcomes.
• Security Clearance: Active U.S. Secret security clearance (U.S. citizenship required).

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Degree: Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or a closely related technical field.
• Satellite Communications: Direct engineering exposure to Satellite Communications (Satcom) space, ground, or network segments.
• Modern Methodologies: Practical experience utilizing Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and working within Agile delivery frameworks.
• Enterprise Architecture: Experience developing and maintaining DoDAF-compliant architecture frameworks and high-level operational concepts (e.g., OV-1 graphics).
• System Analytics: Experience conducting rigorous system reliability, maintainability, and availability analysis.
• Field Deployment: Hands-on experience successfully deploying, installing, and transitioning complex systems directly to fielded, operational sites.
• Industry: Experience working with hardware suppliers and manufacturers. Familiarity with common COTS communications products and vendors. Knowledge of manufacturing, quality, or test engineering processes.
• Technology: Proficiency using Linux tools for troubleshooting hardware and system-level issues. Experience with enterprise server platforms. Familiarity with networking hardware, including switches, routers, network interface cards (NICs), and fiber optic connectivity. Experience supporting communications hardware, including RF, SATCOM, tactical communications, or IP-based networking systems. Experience evaluating hardware compatibility, interoperability, and technology refresh options for COTS platforms.
• Configuration Management: Experience with PLM systems.
• Travel: Ability to travel for remote site installation, verification, troubleshooting and/or operator training. Anticipated travel frequency is up to several trips per year, with majority trip durations being 1 to 2 weeks and the minority, 3 to 4 weeks.

Pay

$110,000 – $150,000

Benefits

• Time For What Matters & Flexible Work: Individual Benefit Account (IBA): Full-time employees receive an additional 25% of their base salary deposited directly into their IBA each pay period. Use your IBA funds to completely cover your holidays, sick leave, and vacation time. Medical, Dental and Vision premiums are funded by your IBA, not your paycheck. Whatever cash remains in your IBA at the end of the year is paid out to you as a one-time cash bonus.
• True Hybrid Flexibility: After an initial onboarding period in the VA or FL office, employees enjoy a hybrid schedule requiring a minimum of 2–3 days a week in-office or at customer site.
• Invested in Your Future: Unrivaled 401(k) Benefits: BCubed Engineering automatically contributes an additional 25% of your base salary into your 401(k) monthly—with no matching or vesting requirements whatsoever. Continuous Growth & Education Support: Level up your skills with our comprehensive Educational Assistance Program, funded conference attendance, and full access to Udemy learning platforms. Dynamic Career Mobility: Chart your own path across our three defined career ladders: Engineering, Leadership, or Program Management.
• Health & Peace of Mind: Subsidized Premium Healthcare: Choose from three robust health plans, including an HSA option. BCubed Engineering directly subsidizes your health, dental, and vision insurance premiums based on your salary level. Medical Reimbursements: Utilize your tax-advantaged IBA funds to cover out-of-pocket medical reimbursements directly. Fully Covered Insurance: Company-paid Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability (STD), and Long-Term Disability (LTD) provided at zero cost to you.