Senior Space Systems Architect - EO/IR & RF

Mercury-Systems; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 250,000; Full time

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Job summary

Mercury Systems is seeking an Expert Systems/Solution Architect Engineer to design scalable, open architectures for spaceborne sensing systems in a hybrid office/onsite environment in the United States. You will lead cross-functional teams, engage customers, and define data-paths from capture to transmission, including AI/ML on-orbit processing.

The role requires a Top Secret clearance, deep experience in EO/IR/RF systems, and the ability to influence product strategy while coordinating with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS, EE, CE, or related field.
• 12+ years of systems engineering or architecture experience in spaceborne, radiation-hardened, RF, sensing, payload-processing, data-recording, or embedded computing systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and directing complex programs.
• Strong customer-facing, investigative, problem-solving, communication, presentation, and technical-writing skills.
• Experience preparing technical publications, white papers, bids, and proposals.
• Ability to align EO/IR and RF edge processing solutions with customer and mission requirements.
• Active U.S. Top Secret clearance; TS/SCI eligibility preferred.
• Travel: ability to travel ~25% to Mercury sites.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evaluate open-standards-based EO/IR and RF payload-processing modules and subsystems.
• Define end-to-end data-path architectures, interfaces, requirements, and performance targets.
• Lead customer engagements and translate mission needs into hardware and software requirements.
• Design AI/ML-enabled on-orbit processing for target identification, data prioritization, feature extraction, sensor fusion, and selective data reduction.
• Address system-level constraints involving data rates, gain, noise, latency, throughput, synchronization, storage, power, thermal performance, radiation, and communications bandwidth.
• Assess technical risks, qualification requirements, costs, schedules, and long-term supportability.
• Mitigate Single Event Effects through component selection, circuit design, fault-tolerant architectures, and software controls.
• Lead trade studies involving heterogeneous processing, mixed-signal integration, and chip-scale packaging.
• Monitor advances in radiation-hardened sensors, RF components, converters, processors, SSDRs, AI/ML, and data-reduction technologies.
• Advance EO/IR, RF, ADC, and DAC architectures for GEOINT, SIGINT, COMINT, ELINT, and electronic warfare systems across L, S, C, X, Ku, Ka, and W bands.
• Support white papers, proposals, RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, customer responses, and technical presentations.
• Provide technical support for space, naval, munitions, intelligence, and defense programs.
• Support space-related mergers and acquisitions by evaluating technical and strategic risks and opportunities.
• Establish partnerships with semiconductor manufacturers, research institutions, government agencies, universities, laboratories, and defense contractors.

Skills

Customer-facing skills

Investigation

Communication

Presentation

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS/EE/CE or related field

Job description

Mercury Systems is seeking an Expert Systems/Solution Architect Engineer to design scalable, open architectures for spaceborne sensing systems in a hybrid office/onsite environment in the United States. You will lead cross-functional teams, engage customers, and define data-paths from capture to transmission, including AI/ML on-orbit processing.

The role requires a Top Secret clearance, deep experience in EO/IR/RF systems, and the ability to influence product strategy while coordinating with