Systems Engineer / FSR

Cubic Corporation; Missouri; On-site; USD 123,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Cubic Digital Intelligence is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as the primary on-site technical representative for a secure data-management project supporting a U.S. Government customer. The role requires coordinating deployment, testing, and operational support while serving as the main technical liaison between the customer and Cubic’s engineering team.

This position is contingent upon contract award, funding, and customer approval.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, computer science, engineering, or related technical field.
• At least 10 years of relevant systems-engineering, integration, or technical-operations experience.
• Experience supporting complex enterprise or distributed systems.
• Customer-facing technical leadership experience.
• Experience with requirements analysis, system integration, testing, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple technical disciplines and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently at a customer site with distributed teams.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary on-site technical point of contact for the customer.
• Coordinate requirements, design, deployment, integration, testing, and operational-readiness activities.
• Translate customer needs into technical requirements, engineering tasks, and acceptance criteria.
• Support the deployment and operation of secure, distributed enterprise systems.
• Coordinate with software, infrastructure, cybersecurity, test, and program-management teams.
• Troubleshoot application, data, interface, configuration, connectivity, and performance issues.
• Monitor system health and coordinate timely resolution of technical problems.
• Support security, configuration-management, documentation, and authorization activities.
• Maintain technical documentation, issue logs, test records, and status reports.
• Conduct demonstrations, knowledge-transfer sessions, and technical briefings.
• Communicate technical risks, dependencies, decisions, and recommendations to customer and company leadership.

Skills

Systems engineering

Customer-facing leadership

Requirements analysis

System integration

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional coordination

Documentation

Communication skills

Independent work at customer site

Top Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Business Unit: Cubic Defense Company Details: When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners. We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Position Overview

Cubic Digital Intelligence is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as the primary on-site technical representative for a secure data-management and dissemination project supporting a U.S. Government customer. The successful candidate will coordinate deployment, integration, testing, and operational support while acting as the principal technical liaison between the customer and Cubic’s engineering team. This role requires strong systems-engineering experience, sound technical judgment, and the ability to resolve issues in a complex, mission-focused environment. This position is contingent upon contract award, funding, and customer approval.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary on-site technical point of contact for the customer.
• Coordinate requirements, design, deployment, integration, testing, and operational-readiness activities.
• Translate customer needs into technical requirements, engineering tasks, and acceptance criteria.
• Support the deployment and operation of secure, distributed enterprise systems.
• Coordinate with software, infrastructure, cybersecurity, test, and program-management teams.
• Troubleshoot application, data, interface, configuration, connectivity, and performance issues.
• Monitor system health and coordinate timely resolution of technical problems.
• Support security, configuration-management, documentation, and authorization activities.
• Maintain technical documentation, issue logs, test records, and status reports.
• Conduct demonstrations, knowledge-transfer sessions, and technical briefings.
• Communicate technical risks, dependencies, decisions, and recommendations to customer and company leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 10 years of relevant systems-engineering, integration, or technical-operations experience.
• Experience supporting complex enterprise or distributed systems.
• Demonstrated success in a customer-facing technical leadership role.
• Experience with requirements analysis, system integration, testing, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Ability to coordinate effectively across multiple technical disciplines and stakeholder organizations.
• Strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently at a customer site while collaborating with a distributed engineering team.
• Active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain SCI.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related technical discipline.
• Experience supporting federal, defense, Intelligence Community, or geospatial programs.
• Familiarity with secure data-management, discovery, synchronization, or dissemination systems.
• Experience with containerized or cloud-based enterprise applications.
• Knowledge of government cybersecurity and system-authorization processes.
• Relevant systems-engineering or cybersecurity certification.

Additional Information

Employment is contingent upon contract award, funding, customer approval, and completion of applicable security, badging, and facility-access requirements. Responsibilities, location, and qualifications may be adjusted based on final contract requirements.

Cubic is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable law.

Cubic Pay Range: $123,000.00 - $156,000.00 + benefits. The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Worker Type: Employee

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law.

Cubic offers medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid disability (company continues full pay and benefits for up to six weeks), life insurance options, critical illness and accident coverages, Flexible Spending Accounts, a pre-paid legal plan, travel accident insurance, an award-winning well-being program which includes an employer-funded lifestyle spending account, up to six weeks of paid parental leave, and a 401k Retirement Plan with a company match. Employees can also take advantage of backup childcare, pet care, pet insurance, virtual tutoring, and a tuition reimbursement program. Many locations follow a 9/80 work schedule with time-off policies to help encourage employees to take time for rest and relaxation. Full-time salaried employees are eligible to participate in Cubic’s flexible time-off arrangement. Part-time and hourly employees accrue paid time-off (PTO)/Sick leave at a rate of 5.23 hours bi-weekly. Lastly, Cubic provides its employees 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

With a presence in over 60 countries and more than 5,000 employees worldwide, Cubic is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. Cubic is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer. We are committed to ensuring a workplace free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, military or veteran status, and any other basis protected by applicable law.

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