Senior Systems Integrator - C-sUAS

Travel Requirement: As needed, up to 25% | Security Clearance: Active DoD Secret clearance.

Role and Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical advisor to government C‑sUAS capability managers.
• Translate operational challenges and mission requirements into executable technical and integration activities.
• Develop and maintain C‑UAS mission threads, use cases, system requirements, interface requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Integrate sensors, command‑and‑control systems, networks, data services, effectors, and supporting software.
• Analyze and troubleshoot data flows, component connectivity, protocols, timing, configurations, and interoperability issues.
• Support integration across air, ground, surface, and subsurface unmanned‑system threat sets.
• Coordinate technical activities across government organizations, OEMs, software developers, and system vendors.
• Evaluate vendor capabilities, technical approaches, integration readiness, and proposed solutions.
• Develop system architectures, data‑flow diagrams, interface‑control documentation, configuration baselines, and integration records.
• Support network connectivity, data exchange, cybersecurity, access, and system‑hardening activities within the authorized scope.
• Plan and support laboratory, field, and operational test events.
• Develop test objectives, scenarios, measures of performance, measures of effectiveness, test cards, and pass/fail criteria.
• Support system setup, test execution, troubleshooting, data collection, and daily operational reporting.
• Analyze test results, identify root causes, recommend corrective actions, and verify issue closure.
• Gather feedback from military operators and assess operational suitability, usability, and mission effectiveness.
• Develop leadership briefings, executive summaries, technical recommendations, courses of action, and decision‑support materials.
• Support acquisition, fielding, sustainment, and configuration‑management decisions.
• Maintain integration backlogs, technical action trackers, capability‑gap registers, risk registers, and configuration records.
• Develop integration guides, technical playbooks, checklists, lessons learned, and troubleshooting references.
• Provide technical continuity as C‑UAS technologies, threats, operational requirements, and vendor solutions evolve.

Requirements

• Active Secret security clearance.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in systems integration, military operations, engineering, communications, C‑UAS, electronic warfare, robotics, autonomous systems, or a related technical field.
• Demonstrated experience integrating multiple hardware and software components into an operational system.
• Working knowledge of counter‑unmanned‑system mission areas, including detection, identification, classification, tracking, command and control, and defeat.
• Experience troubleshooting system interfaces, data flows, networks, APIs, protocols, or component‑connectivity issues.
• Ability to translate operational requirements into technical tasks, integration plans, and measurable deliverables.
• Experience supporting military operators, government program offices, capability managers, or acquisition organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and resolve technical issues involving multiple vendors and government stakeholders.
• Experience planning or supporting laboratory, field, or operational test events.
• Ability to develop clear technical documentation, leadership briefings, executive summaries, and decision‑support products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment in a fast‑moving environment with limited direction.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% to support integration, testing, fielding, exercises, and operational events.

Preferred Experience

• Direct operational or technical experience with C‑UAS capabilities.
• Counter‑air, counter‑ground, counter‑surface, or counter‑subsurface unmanned‑system missions.
• Radar, radio‑frequency detection, electro‑optical/infrared sensors, acoustic sensors, electronic warfare, kinetic effectors, or non‑kinetic effectors.
• Integration of sensors and effectors with command‑and‑control platforms.
• Tactical networks, tactical data links, TAK environments, military communications systems, and edge‑computing architectures.
• REST APIs, OpenAPI specifications, message brokers, data schemas, and system‑to‑system interfaces.
• Modular open systems approaches and government reference architectures.
• Development of systems‑engineering artifacts, including requirements traceability matrices, interface‑control documents, system architectures, test plans, and configuration baselines.
• Rapid acquisition, prototyping, experimentation, operational assessments, or urgent capability fielding.
• Cybersecurity, system hardening, identity management, and data‑protection requirements in government environments.
• Military experience in air defense, aviation, fires, communications, intelligence, electronic warfare, special operations, maritime operations, or unmanned systems.
• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, systems engineering, or a related discipline (relevant military and technical experience may be considered in place of a degree).

About Sherpa 6

At Sherpa 6 we love to solve problems and provide the best solutions for our customers. Our approach is user‑focused and design‑driven, delivering simple yet functional and effective outcomes. We are a group of enthusiastic forward‑thinkers who build amazing solutions with bleeding‑edge technology. We hire people who are passionate, collaborative, and eager to learn. As a Service‑Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, we are committed to protecting and giving our Warfighters the edge they need.

Benefits

• Competitive medical coverage for you and your family.
• Dental, vision, health and wellness benefits.
• Generous retirement savings