Quartermaster - Principal Systems Engineer (RF Systems)

United States, Washington, DC2mo ago

In Office Principal NA Transportation Systems Engineer Principal Vendor Management Back-end Documentation

Requirements

• 15+ years in systems engineering, RF-centric payload design, or distributed sensor system architecture. • Demonstrated design leadership and ownership with fielded RF sensing systems. • Experience with distributed sensor network architectures: edge compute, multiple transport paths, and cloud-based processing pipelines. • High precision systems: time and frequency bias characterization, calibration methodologies, accuracy budgeting. • Strong systems engineering process discipline: requirements decomposition, ICD development, PDR/CDR ownership. • Experience with SDR and FPGA hardware integration: wideband acquisition, digitization, and digital back-end interfaces. • Active Secret clearance, or demonstrated ability to obtain one. • Strongly Preferred • Strongly Preferred • Experience with systems deployed to harsh operational environments and/or cluttered spectral environments. • Experience technically managing hardware subcontractors and vendors producing customized technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end system architecture: From antenna, to analog components, to integration with software defined radio (SDR) and edge computing hardware, to data transport, to the cloud, and all the interfaces between. • Develop and maintain system design documentation: System requirements specifications, ICDs, architecture descriptions, and future concepts. • Resolve cross-functional technical conflicts, ensuring RF, embedded systems, compute/algorithm, and cloud development efforts are aligned to key design and performance objectives. • Set and refine system technical requirements by evaluating tradeoffs between COTS, modified COTS, and custom developments • Ensure timing accuracy and synchronization across distributed systems. • Understand best practices in characterizing and managing system-level time and frequency biases. • Manage requirements traceability from customer mission needs through verification and validation. • Lead technical risk identification and mitigation at the system level. • Oversee and define the test and evaluation architecture; ensure lab test infrastructure aligns to greatest system risks to maximize durability and lifespan.