System/I&T Engineer - Mason, OH

About the role

This opportunity will be posted on an ongoing basis. ICR is seeking a Systems/I&T Engineer to support a complex, mission-relevant Counter-UAS system.

Responsibilities

• Focuses heavily on hardware, system integration, and big-picture understanding across RF, IT, mechanical, and DSP elements.
• Helps ensure continuous system availability while driving future capability enhancements to maintain effectiveness against emerging threats.
• Comfortably works directly with the customer, navigates limited or incomplete customer inputs, and independently identifies evolving threat vectors through external research and community engagement.
• Serve as a primary customer interface for requirements discovery, design reviews, training events, and system support activities.
• Ensure system availability through effective planning, maintenance, troubleshooting, and coordination across multidisciplinary internal teams (IT, RF engineering, DSP, software, signals analysis, electrical engineering, manufacturing, procurement).
• Develop and refine a roadmap for improving system performance, reliability, and responsiveness to evolving Counter-UAS threats within constrained budgets.
• Proactively identify new threat trends through outside sources, open community engagement, research, and collaboration with the broader Counter-UAS ecosystem.
• Maintain accurate and current system documentation, including system diagrams, test procedures, bills of material, and installation manuals.
• Perform RF path analysis and conduct basic RF measurements to verify system performance.
• Work directly with hardware including antennas, RF front-end filters/amplifiers, antenna positioners, HVAC systems, enterprise servers, UPS systems, network switches/routers/firewalls, and software-defined radios.
• Use Linux command-line tools to perform diagnostics, gather/analyze logs, and reconfigure system components.
• Support a diverse DSP software ecosystem involving bare-metal applications, web services, Docker containers, enterprise messaging protocols, and GOTS DSP tools.
• Provide occasional overnight support to customer field teams.

Requirements

• Must have a current Top Secret security clearance with SCI access.
• Must be U.S. Citizen.

Qualifications

• Experience with software-defined radios in signals intelligence contexts.
• Familiarity with enterprise server hardware, networking equipment, and IP communications.
• Understanding of Counter-UAS signals analysis.
• Knowledge of M2Extra and/or X-Midas.
• Strong communication and customer-facing skills.
• Comfortable researching new technologies, threats, and techniques with minimal initial guidance.

Skills

• Ability to understand complex systems at both the architectural level and detailed subsystem level.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package that includes company equity, retirement plan, company-paid health care benefits, flexible paid time off policy, and opportunity for a raise and bonus during the year.