System Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan with company match

Life Insurance & AD&D

Disability Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Generous holidays and PTO

Job summary

Frequentis USA Inc. in Maryland seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering across the full solution lifecycle for mission-critical safety systems.

You will define requirements, architecture, verification, deployment, and sustainment, coordinating across product management, software and hardware teams, QA, and customers such as FAA, DoD, and NASA. The role requires at least a bachelor’s in a related field and 10+ years of systems engineering or leadership, with DO-278/DO-278A

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical/electronics/systems/aeronautical/computer engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of systems engineering or technical leadership in complex or mission-critical systems.
• Experience developing system architectures and ensuring integration/deployment of mission-critical or enterprise systems.
• Experience developing and reviewing technical documentation, architecture designs, interface documents, and analyses.
• Authorized to work in the United States and able to meet access requirements for government facilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering activities through the full solution lifecycle from concept to sustainment.
• Analyze customer specifications and derive, allocate, and trace system requirements across hardware, software, interfaces, safety, and security.
• Develop compliant architectures, deliverable plans, and supporting approval documentation.
• Lead design reviews, test readiness reviews, and customer presentations; document decisions and risks.
• Create and review technical documentation for accuracy, clarity, and contractual data.

Skills

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

FAA knowledge

DO-278/278A

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Advanced engineering degree

Tools

GIS modelling

Video technologies

Job description

Job Introduction

Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom‑tailored, and user‑centric communication and information systems for mission‑critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards. We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever‑changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.

Key Tasks

• Lead systems engineering activities through the full solution lifecycle, including concept development, requirements definition, design, integration, verification, deployment, acceptance, and sustainment.


• Analyze customer specifications, operational concepts, and technical documentation requirements; decompose, derive, allocate, manage, and trace system, subsystem, hardware, software, interface, performance, safety, reliability, maintainability, availability, security, and supportability requirements.


• Develop compliant system architectures, deliverable plans, and supporting approval documentation.


• Lead architecture discussions, technical interchange meetings, design reviews, requirements reviews, test readiness reviews, and customer presentations; document decisions, assumptions, actions, and technical risks.


• Identify solution and documentation compliance gaps; establish strategies, action plans, and recommendations to achieve contractual and regulatory assurance / approval objectives.


• Develop and maintain systems engineering plans, architecture descriptions, requirements documents, interface control documents, design analyses, compliance matrices, safety artifacts, reliability analyses, and other required technical deliverables.


• Define verification strategies and test methodologies; review or approve test plans, procedures, success criteria, results, and reports to confirm that the integrated solution meets requirements and operational concepts.


• Provide technical leadership during system integration, performance and stress testing, failure recovery testing, regression testing, factory/site acceptance, and resolution of defects or field issues.


• Perform or guide reliability, maintainability, availability, fault‑tolerance, FMEA/FMECA, fault‑tree, hazard, and operational analyses appropriate to the solution and customer requirements.


• Lead System Architectural responsibilities in Customer deployment projects such as site survey, equipment siting, and design.


• Coordinate engineering activities across product management, software and hardware development, test, quality assurance, configuration management, manufacturing, logistics, training, technical publications, deployment, and lifecycle support.


• Advise program and functional management on technical status, compliance, risks, tradeoffs, resource needs, and recommended corrective actions.


• Support customer, regulatory, quality, safety, and design approval reviews or audits, and provide accurate responses to findings and technical questions.


• Create and review technical documentation for engineering accuracy, clarity, consistency, traceability, and compliance with applicable standards and contractual data requirements.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical / Electronics / Systems / Aeronautical / Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.


• Minimum of 10 years of systems engineering or technical leadership experience in complex or mission-critical systems.


• Demonstrated experience in developing system architectures, and deriving, allocating, tracing, and verifying system requirements and integration / deployment of mission-critical or enterprise communications, surveillance, automation, networks, computing platforms; external interfaces.


• Demonstrated Experience developing and reviewing technical documentation, compliance evidence, engineering plans, architecture/design descriptions, interface documents, analyses, and test artifacts.


• Must be authorized to work in the United States and able to meet customer requirements for access to U.S. Government facilities and information.


• Advanced degree in engineering, science, or related discipline


• Prior domain knowledge in air traffic or mission critical automation environments.


• Knowledge of FAA systems engineering, Safety Management System, Safety Risk Management, System Design Approval, and acquisition or certification processes.


• Experience applying DO-278/DO-278A or comparable software assurance and safety practices in mission‑critical systems.


• Hands‑on experience with reliability, maintainability, and availability modeling; FMEA/FMECA; fault‑tree analysis; FRACAS; and hazard analysis.


• Experience with Geographic Information System (GIS) modelling, Line of Sight (LoS) analysis.


• Experience and knowledge with video technologies and protocols.


• Experience leading multidisciplinary or geographically distributed teams through multiple phases of the system development lifecycle.

Our Values

Frequentis USA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Around 2,100 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work‑life‑balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities. In doing so, we focus on long‑term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know‑how of our employees stable.

Benefits

Benefits: We are committed to supporting our mission through the following employee benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance


• Health Savings Accounts


• Competitive 401(k) Plan with company match and immediate vesting


• Employee Life Insurance & AD&D


• Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance


• Employee Assistance Program


• Generous holidays, including a full week off from December 25 to January 1


• PTO that scales with tenure and sick leave


• Company-sponsored team-building activities to boost morale and productivity.