Senior Systems Engineer - EW

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.

About the role

Pacific Defense is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer - EW with the ability to lead and execute complex programs across the business. This Systems Engineer will specialize in the Electronic Warfare business area but can support across all of them, dependent on the qualifications and desires of applicants and the needs of the business.

Requirements

• Passion for both program startup and test and integration
• A proven drive for rigor in system and subsystem verification
• Skills needed for program startup including requirement generation, allocation, and verification
• Lab 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 into the direction of product development and future pursuits
• Work solutions to program problems across the company
• Support new business initiatives as required to include contribution to technical content, distribution, and collection/validation of Engineering artifacts across all Engineering disciplines
• Mentorship and growth of System Engineers

Required 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, and 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
• Ability to work with customers to develop and document system requirements
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of hardware engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, computer architectures, and software architecture
• Career development and mentoring of System Engineers

Preferred Experience

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

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• 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

Company Information

• Pacific Defense is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.