Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Active TS/SCI with Poly (ONSITE)

Date Posted:

2024-07-16

Country:

United States of America

Location:

UT205: 1128 W 2400 South, Salt Lake C 1128 West 2400 South AST - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT, 84119 USA

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

Applied Signal Technology (AST) is seeking a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to join our elite Engineering team and play a pivotal role in advancing our mission of strengthening our nation and enhancing global security.  We are in search of a visionary Engineer who possesses a wealth of experience in Design, Development, Integration, and Test experience, along with an Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.  If you are driven by excellence and have a passion to be part of a team that contributes to national security efforts, then this is the opportunity for you!

AST provides trusted strategic and tactical SIGINT solutions that secure the interests of the U.S. and its partners.  AST’s work in areas such as high-capacity broadband communications, signal processing and analysis, tactical SIGINT, and wireless communications continually challenges our extraordinary engineers to resolve problems and make the world a safer place.  AST’s work environment is passionate, highly collaborative and provides engineers the freedom to strengthen and expand their skills, explore new and creative ideas, and work closely with our nation’s finest service members all while embracing integrity, diversity and work-life balance.  To find out more about AST, click here: Applied Signal Technology: WHO WE ARE

What You Will Do

• Lead and consult on various products and programs, provide systems engineering on both new and existing products, and develop and propose new concepts and solutions to our customers. 

• Be hands-on and work closely with our customers, senior management, program managers, and cross discipline technical staff to thoroughly understand customer objectives and then to develop solutions. 

• Work on or lead Research and Development projects that extend into advanced technology exploration. 

• Engage in engineering functions such as concept development, engineering design, integration and evaluation, and operations and maintenance of various systems or systems of systems. 

• Extensive early and continuing interaction with customers to define solutions, project scope and then act as a liaison for the customer within the company. 

• Lead large groups of engineers and large design efforts, present formal presentations in front of large groups and customers, conduct detailed design reviews, handle multiple projects and tasks simultaneously, gain a detailed understanding of systems, flows, CONOPs and advanced concepts, innovate and provide strategic direction, and make critical decisions while under pressure.

• Interact with development teams to resolve discrepancies and issues.

Qualifications You Must Have 

• Minimum of 10 years of practical experience in Systems Engineering or leading technical developments including experience with design, development and testing of custom hardware and software systems of high complexity

• Experience with Design, Development, Integration, and Test

• Experience with RF, Optics, Networking, or Telecommunications standards and processing techniques

• Familiarity with data center or co-location infrastructure and environments

• Experience identifying, analyzing and resolving problems in all phases of the system lifecycle

• Experience working with customers, end users, hardware design teams, and software design teams

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 8 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience 

• Active and transferable TS/SCI with CI Poly is required prior to start date

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Qualifications We Prefer​

• Experience developing high-speed processing hardware, embedded systems, FPGAs, complex control software, or embedded software

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, including AWS, Azure, or Google

• Experience with reverse engineering complex software/hardware systems

• Understanding of telecommunications systems concepts and signal processing fundamentals

• Experience formaliz