Senior Radar Systems Architect – Prototyping & Advanced Tech

Echodyne; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSU (Restricted Stock Units)

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO / 15 days per year

401(k) match

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Pet Insurance

Holidays

Job summary

Echodyne is seeking a Senior Systems Architect to join the Advanced Technology Development team, defining architectures for rapid radar prototypes and guiding cross-disciplinary technical decisions in a fast-paced environment.

You will connect sensing, compute, power, software, test, and field-demonstration needs into a cohesive system approach, balancing practicality with fast prototype execution and robust system integrity.

Qualifications

• Experience developing system architectures for complex hardware and software products, embedded systems, radar systems, sensing products, aerospace systems, or defense technology.
• Ability to translate mission needs, customer use cases, and operating environments into system requirements, architectures, interfaces, budgets, and verification intent.
• Experience defining and managing performance budgets, error budgets, design margins, assumptions, interfaces, and baselines.
• Experience leading cross-disciplinary trade studies across RF, electrical, digital, mechanical, software, test, and supplier constraints.
• Experience planning prototypes, experiments, integration events, and verification activities that connect technical risk to evidence.
• Ability to communicate complex system decisions, risks, and recommendations clearly to engineering and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop mission needs, concepts of operation, success criteria, and system objectives for radar prototypes and future Advanced Technology Development efforts.
• Translate product goals, use cases, operating environments, research inputs, and business constraints into architectures, requirements, interfaces, and technical budgets.
• Lead trade studies across radar performance, RF/digital architecture, compute, calibration, power, thermal, packaging, software, test, cost, schedule, and manufacturability.
• Define prototype experiments, integration plans, and verification evidence to retire high-impact risks before formal product development.
• Maintain architectural baselines, interfaces, margins, decisions, risks, and configuration information.
• Collaborate with Product, Research, RF, electrical, FPGA, software, mechanical, PCB, test, manufacturing, suppliers, and stakeholders to deliver mission-critical solutions.
• Turn prototype results into architecture decisions, reusable system guidance, and transition packages for product teams.

Skills

System architectures

Trade studies

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Prototype planning

Requirements & budgets

Communication to stakeholders

Radars / RF systems

Engineering judgment

Education

BS in Systems/ Electrical/ Mechanical/ Computer Engineering or related field

Export-controlled data eligibility (ITAR/EAR)

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Python

Job description

Echodyne is seeking a Senior Systems Architect to join the Advanced Technology Development team, defining architectures for rapid radar prototypes and guiding cross-disciplinary technical decisions in a fast-paced environment.

You will connect sensing, compute, power, software, test, and field-demonstration needs into a cohesive system approach, balancing practicality with fast prototype execution and robust system integrity.