Senior Systems Engineer, PNT & RF Timing Systems

sitrepsllc; Virginia (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Defense Technology is seeking a Systems Engineer IV to establish the engineering baseline for four PNT product lines: a tactical radio, a mounted radio module, a software-defined timing and telemetry module, and a navigation sensor fusion line.

You will define requirements, interfaces, and verification, author the SEP, stand up RTVM, and lead ICD development across dismounted, vehicle, and unmanned architectures, ensuring readiness for production and government qualification.

Qualifications

• 10 to 20 years of systems engineering experience on complex hardware.
• Ownership of the full systems engineering artifact set, including requirements decomposition, ICDs, RTVM and verification matrices, and the SEP.
• Working fluency with MIL-STD-461 and MIL-STD-810 qualification, and what those standards cost you in design.
• Embedded electronics depth across RF, power, connectors, and data interfaces.
• Ability to operate as the single technical authority across multiple concurrent product lines.
• U.S. citizenship, and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Requirements analysis covering system-level functional, performance, interface, environmental, and supportability needs.
• Authorship and delivery of the Systems Engineering Plan (SEP) as a formal PWS deliverable.
• Stand up the RTVM for each product line with traceability to design elements and verification.
• Lead ICD development covering connectors, power, data, RF, and integration interfaces.
• Lead the oscillator upgrade trade study from TCXO to OCXO with rationale and holdover projections.
• Perform thermal management analysis for modem heat and passive cooling options.
• Provide engineering direction and risk assessment using modeling and simulation.

Skills

Systems engineering

RF hardware

Technical leadership

Schematic reading

Security clearance

Education

Master's degree

Tools

RTVM

SEP

Job description

Defense Technology is seeking a Systems Engineer IV to establish the engineering baseline for four PNT product lines: a tactical radio, a mounted radio module, a software-defined timing and telemetry module, and a navigation sensor fusion line.

You will define requirements, interfaces, and verification, author the SEP, stand up RTVM, and lead ICD development across dismounted, vehicle, and unmanned architectures, ensuring readiness for production and government qualification.