Senior Systems Engineer-Electronic Warfare

About the role

Pacific Defense, a small, fast-growing company that develops and provides advanced multi-function RF systems for the U.S. Department of Defense, is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to work in our Electronic Warfare engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute complex programs across the business.
• Lead requirement generation, allocation, and verification for Electronic Warfare programs.
• Support lab experience to support/lead the Integration and Test efforts up to and including verification/validation/acceptance with a focus on automation in testing.
• Support new business initiatives as required to include contribution to technical content, distribution, and collection/validation of Engineering artifacts across all Engineering disciplines.
• Mentor and grow System Engineers.
• Work solutions to program problems across the company.

Requirements

• Passion for both program startup and test and integration.
• A proven drive for rigor in system and subsystem verification.
• Laboratory experience to support/lead the Integration and Test efforts up to and including verification/validation/acceptance with a focus on automation in testing.
• Experience with Electronic Warfare (comms and/or non-comms), PNT, and Communications waveforms.
• Proven field experience that demonstrates the ability to understand customer use cases and to rapidly adapt to changing needs.
• Perform supporting analysis needed for proposals and documentation.
• Be a voice in the direction of product development and future pursuits.
• Willingness to help refine processes and procedures to optimize rapid but assured system realization in a growing small company atmosphere.
• Experience with hardware architecture, specification, design, integration, and testing, especially transceivers, amplifier subsystems, and antenna subsystems.
• Coordinate work to analyze and translate requirements into system architecture, hardware, and software designs and interface specifications.
• Develop models or simulations and apply advanced computer programs, analytical techniques, or control strategies to effectively meet requirements and resolve problems.
• Critical thinker, with prudent risk tolerance to balance risk and technology with requirements, cost, and schedule.
• Competitive spirit, accepting of challenges with a willingness to learn and recover from mistakes.
• Strong desire to work at a smaller company, free of many of the “big company” roadblocks.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with experience presenting technical material.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or other relevant technical field.

Skills

• Communications and Non-Communications Electronic Support (ES) and Electronic Attack (EA) System development and deployment experience.
• Communications and Non-Communications signal properties, their detection, measurement, identification, degradation, disruption, and denial.
• Expertise in EW System verification using standard test equipment and special-purpose subsystems.
• Strong preference for hands-on work.
• Understanding of Open Systems standards and experience using them (SOSA, CMOSS, MORA, VICTORY).
• Possess acute attention to detail and be proactive and self-motivating.
• Willingness to help refine processes and procedures to optimize rapid but assured system realization in a growing small company atmosphere.
• Experience with hardware architecture, specification, design, integration, and testing, especially transceivers, amplifier subsystems, and antenna subsystems.
• Coordinate work to analyze and translate requirements into system architecture, hardware, and software designs and interface specifications.
• Develop models or simulations and apply advanced computer programs, analytical techniques, or control strategies to effectively meet requirements and resolve problems.
• Critical thinker, with prudent risk tolerance to balance risk and technology with requirements, cost, and schedule.
• Competitive spirit, accepting of challenges with a willingness to learn and recover from mistakes.
• Strong desire to work at a smaller company, free of many of the “big company” roadblocks.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with experience presenting technical material.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries and an immediately vested 401K match.
• 100% coverage options for the employee, and 75% coverage for dependents’ medical, dental, vision, and life insurance premiums, as well as a flexible spending account for incidental health care expenses.
• Paid time off and federal holidays.