Shift5 - Systems Engineer

Remote - Rosslyn, VA or Remote$143k - $156k+ Equity3w ago

Remote Senior NA Data Analytics Oil & Gas Systems Engineer Linux SAFe Documentation Customer Engagement

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field. • Education: • Experience: 5+ years of experience in systems, integration, or software engineering, preferably within the aerospace, defense, or high-reliability electronics sectors. • Government Acquisition Knowledge: Familiarity with common government contract documentation according to DIDs (SRD, SRS, IDD, ICD, SDD, CSA, etc.). • Government Acquisition Knowledge: • Technical & Integration Skills: Strong understanding of configuration management, software/OS integration (Linux/Unix), network architectures (TCP/IP, routing, VLANs), radio/RF communications, encryption protocols, and basic hardware/cabling integration in safety-critical/airworthiness environments. • Testing & Verification: Demonstrated experience with common system verification methods (Test, Inspection, Demonstration, Analysis), hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) lab environments, and software-in-the-loop setups. • Testing & Verification: • Security Clearance: Active Security Clearance. • Security Clearance: • Soft Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to coordinate across diverse engineering disciplines, project managers, and external government stakeholders. • Preferred: • Industry & Quality Standards: Familiarity with industry design standards such as DO-178 and DO-254. • Industry & Quality Standards: • Quality Frameworks: Familiarity with quality standards such as AS9100 and ISO 9001. • Quality Frameworks:

Responsibilities

• Platform Integration & Technical Execution: Define and design the integration of Shift5 software and hardware into customer platforms, including data interfaces, execution environments, OS-level configuration, network topology (TCP/IP, tactical radio/RF), encryption/key management, environmental qualification (MIL-STD), SWaP, cabling, and A-kit development. Identify and manage technical risks and dependencies. • Platform Integration & Technical Execution: • Requirements & Technical Baseline Management: Own and maintain system-level technical baselines across assigned programs. Oversee tracking, testing, and verification of compliance and customer requirements. Develop, decompose, and manage requirements documents (SRDs, SRSs, ICDs) and evaluate design updates for downstream program impact. • Requirements & Technical Baseline Management: • CDRL & Technical Artifact Development: Lead the development, review, and delivery of formal systems engineering and Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) artifacts for government acquisition programs, including V&V Plans, System Architecture/Design Documents, Configuration Management artifacts, and Technical Manuals. • CDRL & Technical Artifact Development: • System Architecture & Design: Lead end-to-end, cross-discipline technical execution across software, platform, cyber, data science, and integration teams. Serve as the technical authority for system-level decisions across hardware, software, network, and platform interfaces. • System Architecture & Design: • Verification, Validation & Test: Define system-level verification strategies, acceptance criteria, and testing execution. Perform system-level analyses including latency, throughput, network bandwidth allocation, platform stability, system safety, and fault tolerance (FMECA, Single-Point Failure). • Verification, Validation & Test: • Program & Customer Engagement: Serve as a primary technical interface with customer engineering, PMOs, and certification authorities. Lead content development for formal technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRRs) and define entry/exit criteria for milestone events. • Program & Customer Engagement: • What Success Looks Like • Mission-Critical Integration: You seamlessly bridge engineering teams and DoW platform deployments, ensuring complex hardware, software, and network subsystems meet strict airworthiness, safety, and compliance standards. • Mission-Critical Integration: • Rigorous Baseline Control: You independently own and manage technical baselines, CDRL deliverables, and requirements traceability with zero friction across fast-moving defense acquisition programs. • Rigorous Baseline Control: • Cross-Disciplinary Technical Authority: You serve as a trusted technical lead across software, cyber, hardware, and platform teams, translating complex operational constraints into robust, scalable architecture designs. • Cross-Disciplinary Technical Authority: • Customer & Program Execution: You build high-trust relationships with customer PMOs and engineering authorities, successfully navigating technical gates (PDR, CDR, TRR) to advance platform capabilities. • Customer & Program Execution:

Benefits

• Bonus program and equity in a fast-growing startup • Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families • Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions • Employer-paid Life and Disability Insurance • Uncapped paid time off policy • Flexible work & remote work policy • Tax-deferred public transit benefits with Metro SmartBenefits (DC/MD/VA) • We are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that embraces the diversity of our people and represents the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives and ways of solving problems. We strive to attract and retain talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.