Platform Systems Engineer - Aerospace & Defense

questdefensesystemssolutionsinc; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Quest Defense Systems & Solutions in Cedar Rapids, IA is seeking a Platform Systems Engineer to support integration, verification, and qualification of advanced aerospace and defense systems. You will work across system architecture, requirements, performance analysis, and testing to ensure hardware, software, and FPGA components operate together successfully.

This role involves waveform integration and migration to next-generation hardware, close collaboration with FPGA teams, and hands-on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of systems engineering, integration, or testing experience.
• Experience developing, analyzing, and verifying system-level requirements and architectures.
• Hands-on experience with system integration, verification and validation, qualification testing, and performance analysis.
• Ability to troubleshoot interactions among hardware, software, FPGA, and other platform components.
• Knowledge of FPGA builds, resource utilization, timing constraints, and place-and-route concepts.
• Familiarity with Xilinx tools and the FPGA development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop, analyze, decompose, and maintain system-level requirements.
• Support platform architecture, interface definitions, design decisions, and technical trade studies.
• Plan and execute system integration, verification, validation, and qualification testing.
• Evaluate system performance against requirements, analyze tests, and resolve gaps.
• Integrate and port waveforms to next-generation hardware platforms.
• Collaborate with FPGA teams on builds, timing and routing considerations.
• Develop test plans, procedures, and system-level verification evidence.
• Troubleshoot complex interactions among hardware, software, FPGA, and waveform components.
• Collaborate across hardware, software, FPGA, test, and program teams.
• Create and maintain interface documentation, specifications, and test reports.

Skills

Systems engineering

System integration

Testing

FPGA

Verification

Requirements analysis

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Xilinx tools

Job description

Quest Defense Systems & Solutions in Cedar Rapids, IA is seeking a Platform Systems Engineer to support integration, verification, and qualification of advanced aerospace and defense systems. You will work across system architecture, requirements, performance analysis, and testing to ensure hardware, software, and FPGA components operate together successfully.

This role involves waveform integration and migration to next-generation hardware, close collaboration with FPGA teams, and hands-on