Senior Systems Engineer – Airborne COMINT/ELINT Sensors – TS/SCI Preferred – Remote – (AST-CF)

Date Posted:

2024-07-11

Country:

United States of America

Location:

CA826: 200 Holger Way,San Jose 200 Holger Way , San Jose, CA, 95134 USA

Position Role Type:

Remote

Join AST, a dynamic business within Collins Aerospace, in our mission to enhance national security and safeguard the global community. We're on the lookout for a dedicated Senior Systems Engineer with airborne COMINT/ELINT sensor development expertise, driven by excellence to contribute to our team, crafting innovative solutions that protect the interests of the U.S. and its allies. From high reliability telecommunication processing to airborne SIGINT collection processing to cyber operations, our diverse projects offer continuous challenges and opportunities for growth.  Embrace a passionate, collaborative work environment that prioritizes integrity, diversity, and work-life balance. Enjoy competitive compensation, extensive career development prospects, comprehensive health care coverage, generous leave policies, and more. Take your career to new heights while making the world a safer place with AST.

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Applied Signal Technology: WHO WE ARE

What You Will Do:

• You will apply your systems engineering development experience to support the product development, integration, deployment, and sustainment of our advanced airborne Communications Intelligence (COMINT) and Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) solutions.

• You will contribute to and be an integral part of multi-discipline engineering project teams and be challenged by real-work assignments that include any combination of: 

• Technical research, concept demonstration, trade studies, requirements management, product design, technical documentation, and technical presentations.

• Technical proposals and request for information (RFI) support including writing draft technical volumes and Basis of Estimates (BOEs).

• System I&T plan and procedure development for both laboratory and field environments for demonstration and/or requirement sell-off.

• System deployments (installation, integration/validation/verification), including travel to customer premises.

• Travel up to 30%-40% travel time to other AST sites and customer sites to support customers meetings and demonstrations, system deployments (installation, integration/validation/verification).

What You Will Learn:

You will learn COMINT/ELINT principles and concepts and work side-by-side with industry recognized technical leaders to develop and implement state of the art airborne signals intelligence (SIGINT) systems.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires minimum of 5 years of practical systems engineering experience in product development, integration, deployment, and/or sustainment of airborne COMINT and ELINT sensors for the U.S. Department of Defense and/or Intelligence Community.

• Experience producing system engineering contract deliverables such as system/subsystem descriptions, ICDs, hardware and software specifications, acceptance test plans, acceptance test procedures, and acceptance test reports.

• Experience in all phases of the full product development life cycle (CONOPS, requirements, design, implementation, integration, testing, verification, deployment).

• Experience with laboratory and field testing and troubleshooting of airborne COMINT and/or ELINT systems to the hardware, software and/or firmware unit levels.

• Proficient in written, verbal, and presentation communication, with experience effectively interacting with subordinates, pe.,ers, and leadership.

• US citizenship is required, as only US citizens are eligible for security clearance.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD TS/SCI or higher clearance is required.

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Current DoD TS or TS/SCI with Poly or current SSBI.

• Experience leading technical staff and managing priorities on technical work within cost and schedule constraints.

• Demonstrated experience with platform integration of airborne ISR sensors.

• Experience in ELIN