Senior System Engineer, Integration & Test

Pacific Defense; Nashua (NH); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Immediately vested 401K match

100% medical coverage for employees

75% medical coverage for dependents

Job summary

A leading defense technology firm based in Nashua, New Hampshire is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead and execute complex programs. The ideal candidate should have a passion for program startup, with a strong emphasis on Electronic Warfare systems. Responsibilities include defining requirements and leading verification efforts. The company offers competitive salaries, benefits, and a collaborative atmosphere.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in related fields.
• Strong desire to work in a smaller company environment.
• Understanding hardware engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, and computer architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex programs across the business.
• Ensure requirement generation and allocation.
• Perform supporting analysis for proposals.

Skills

Communications and Non-Communications signal properties and their measurement

Expertise in EW System verification

Test Automation software

Hands-on work

Understanding of Open Systems standards

Acute attention to detail

Proactive and self-motivating

Hardware architecture and integration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science

Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics

Job description

Join Pacific Defense as a Senior System Engineer, Integration & Test.

Pacific Defense is an industry leading developer of advanced RF and electronics systems for the U.S. Department of Defense and commercial customers. The company specializes in Open Systems Architecture solutions for electromagnetic spectrum warfare.

About Us

Pacific Defense provides cost effective, highly capable, modular, and rapidly reconfigurable systems to customers in less than half the time of traditional defense contractors. The team delivers sensing and effects solutions for the Land, Air, Sea and Space domains at an unprecedented pace.

Job Description

Pacific Defense is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer with the ability to lead and execute complex programs across the business. The ideal candidate will specialize in the Electronic Warfare business area but can support across all areas, dependent on qualifications and desires.

The Senior Systems Engineer will need to have passion for both program startup and test and integration, a proven drive for rigor in system and subsystem verification, and skills needed for program startup including requirement generation, allocation, and verification.

Requirements

• Passion for program startup and test and integration.
• A proven drive for rigor in system and subsystem verification.
• Skills needed for program startup including requirement generation, allocation, and verification.
• Lab experience to support/lead the Integration and Test efforts up to and including verification/validation/acceptance with a focus on automation in testing.
• Experience with Electronic Warfare (comms and/or non-comms), PNT, and Communications waveforms.
• Proven field experience that demonstrates the ability to understand customer use cases and to rapidly adapt to changing needs.
• Perform supporting analysis needed for proposals and documentation.
• Be a voice into the direction of product development and future pursuits.
• Work solutions to program problems across the company.
• Support new business initiatives as required to include contribution to technical content, distribution, and collection/validation of Engineering artifacts across all Engineering disciplines.
• Mentorship and growth of System Engineers.

Required Skills

• Communications and Non-Communications signal properties and their measurement.
• Expertise in EW System verification using standard test equipment and special purpose subsystems.
• Experience with Test Automation software.
• Strong preference for hands-on work.
• Understanding of Open Systems standards and experience using them (SOSA, CMOSS, MORA, VICTORY).
• Possess acute attention to detail and be proactive and self-motivating.
• Willingness to help establish processes and procedures where there are none in a growing small company atmosphere.
• Experience with hardware architecture, specification, design, integration, and testing.
• Ability to work with customers to develop and document system requirements.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of hardware engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, and computer architectures.
• Coordinate work to analyze and translate requirements into system architecture, hardware and software designs and interface specifications.
• Ability to design, analyze, and evaluate hardware products.
• Experience following processes to ensure quality and predictability of hardware development.
• Develop models or simulations and apply advanced computer programs, analytical techniques, or control strategies to effectively meet requirements and resolve problems.
• Critical thinker, with prudent risk tolerance to balance risk and technology with requirements, cost, and schedule.
• Competitive spirit accepting of challenges with a willingness to learn and recover from mistakes.
• Willingness to learn and explore on your own, and travel, when necessary, in support of business goals.
• Strong desire to work at a smaller company free of many of the “big company” roadblocks.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with experience presenting technical material.

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years of experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or other relevant technical field.

What We Offer

Pacific Defense provides competitive salaries and immediately vested 401K match. We provide 100% coverage options for the employee, and 75% coverage for dependents’ medical, dental, vision, and life insurance premiums, as well as a flexible spending account for incidental health care expenses.

Pacific Defense is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.