Senior Systems Engineer - EW

Location: Nashua, NH; Dallas, TX. U.S. citizenship required; must obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance.

About the role

Pacific Defense, a fast‑growing company that develops advanced multi‑function RF systems for the U.S. Department of Defense, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer – Electronic Warfare to work on its Electronic Warfare engineering team. The role involves leading and executing complex programs across the business, supporting CMOSS/SOSA modular open systems, and working on products such as Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), communications, and electronic warfare systems.

Requirements

• Passion for both program startup and test and integration
• 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 integration and test efforts up to verification/validation/acceptance, with a focus on automation
• Experience with Electronic Warfare (comms and/or non‑comms), PNT, and communications waveforms
• Field experience demonstrating ability to understand customer use cases and rapidly adapt to changing needs
• Ability to perform supporting analysis for proposals and documentation
• Contribute to product development direction and future pursuits
• Work solutions to program problems across the company
• Support new business initiatives, including technical content creation and engineering artifact management
• Mentorship and growth of other Systems Engineers

Skills

• Communications and non‑communications Electronic Support (ES) and Electronic Attack (EA) system development and deployment
• Understanding of signal properties, detection, measurement, identification, and degradation/disruption/denial
• Expertise in EW system verification using standard test equipment and special‑purpose subsystems
• Hands‑on work preference
• Understanding of Open Systems standards (SOSA, CMOSS, MORA, VICTORY)
• Acute attention to detail; proactive and self‑motivating
• Willingness to refine processes and procedures for rapid yet assured system realization
• Experience with hardware architecture, specification, design, integration, and testing (especially transceivers, amplifier subsystems, antenna subsystems)
• Ability to work with customers to develop and document system requirements
• Strong knowledge of hardware engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, computer architectures, and software architecture
• Coordinate work to translate requirements into system architecture, hardware/software designs, and interface specifications
• Design, analyze, and evaluate hardware products
• Follow processes to ensure quality and predictability of hardware development
• Develop models or simulations and apply advanced analytical techniques or control strategies
• Critical thinker with prudent risk tolerance
• Competitive spirit, willingness to learn from mistakes
• Willingness to travel as needed to support business goals
• Desire to work in a smaller company environment
• Strong written and oral communication skills; experience presenting technical material

Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Immediately vested 401(k) match
• 100% employee coverage for medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; 75% coverage for dependents
• Flexible spending account for incidental health care expenses
• Paid time off and federal holidays