Senior Systems Engineering Lead, Mission-Critical Comms

Frequentis; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with match

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

EAP

Job summary

Frequentis USA Inc. is a leader in safety-critical voice and data information systems, serving government agencies with a focus on reliability and security.

The role seeks a senior Systems Engineer to design, integrate, and support complex hardware-software solutions for national security and aviation programs. You will bridge stakeholders and engineering teams, ensuring compliance with standards, leading design reviews, and guiding deployment across multi-site projects.

Qualifications

• BS in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience with IT systems and engineering.
• 10+ years experience in Systems Engineering solutioning, integrating, deploying, and supporting integrated hardware and software systems in networking and communications.
• 5+ years experience in leading/overseeing an engineering team and direct customer interfacing.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical, and technical troubleshooting skills.
• Highly organized with strong written, verbal communication, and management skills.

Responsibilities

• Plans, develops, and implements technical compliance of product and documents according to Government specifications, guidelines and standards.
• Bridges the gap between stakeholders and the development team, interpreting business requirements into understandable development tasks to match a final product with the expected technical targets.
• Derives / allocates hardware / software requirements from high level system customer specifications.
• Leads design reviews and presentations of engineering solutions to customers.
• Identifies gaps in compliance and develops strategies and engineering tasking to fulfill requirements ensuring adherence to industry stabdards, regulations, and best practices.
• Interfaces with other business operations to ensure system engineering compliance.
• Leads and/or executes integration of software and hardware components, testing procedure development and perform system debug, security assessments and system patching, factory acceptance tests, site acceptance tests, failure location and analysis, creation of technical documentation supporting production build, support to production teams to troubleshoot and solve production issues.
• Participates in on-site installations, integration, testing and maintenance activities.
• May participate in remote system monitoring, maintenance, and tier 2 on call support.

Skills

Systems engineering

Team leadership

Problem solving

Communication

Education

B.S. in Engineering or CS

Job description

Frequentis USA Inc. is a leader in safety-critical voice and data information systems, serving government agencies with a focus on reliability and security.

The role seeks a senior Systems Engineer to design, integrate, and support complex hardware-software solutions for national security and aviation programs. You will bridge stakeholders and engineering teams, ensuring compliance with standards, leading design reviews, and guiding deployment across multi-site projects.