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Sr. Systems Engineer

MAG Aerospace
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Mar 2025
💰 $175,000/yr

About the role

Position Summary

MAG IS OFFERING UP TO A 10k SIGN-ON BONUS FOR QUALIFIED CANDIDATES!

 

MAG Aerospace is seeking a highly experienced Senior Systems Engineer to lead the development of advanced Electronic Warfare (EW) systems. The successful candidate will have a strong background in full life cycle systems engineering, with expertise in subsystem decomposition, requirements analysis, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and multi-domain integration. The ideal candidate will have experience working with cross-functional Agile teams, technical strategy development, and collaborating with government stakeholders to deliver mission-critical capabilities.

 

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-growing team with multiple opportunities for upward advancement supporting EW&C. The EW&C program delivers critical capabilities to counter current and future threats, enabling the next generation of warfighting capabilities from sensor to Soldier worldwide. By applying game changing cyber technologies through agile development methodology, we enable battlefield dominance for our Warfighters.

 

 

 

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

  • Support software-focused efforts to integrate next-generation architectures for Electronic Surveillance (ES) and Electronic Attack (EA) functions with legacy system interfaces
  • Support high frequency band demonstrations, including threat definition scenarios, lab equipment setup, and supporting junior engineers with running test cases
  • Collaborate across multi-functional teams to identify opportunities for improving use cases, CONOPS, CONEMP, and TTPs.  
  • Translate Army Capability Manager requirements into actionable goals and system requirements necessary to develop effective collection strategies. 
  • Lead cross-functional teams to ensure on-time completion of requirements derivation and allocation activities, traceability to test cases, fault isolation evaluations, system cost analyses, and thermal trade studies
  • Work with electronic warfare analysts to characterize adversary electronic orders of battle to include specific analysis on threat radar systems and blue force system’s ability to detect and intercept a given set of threats. 
  • Conduct analysis, subsystem analysis, architecture/subsystem decomposition, requirements and algorithm design, implementation, integration, verification, and maintenance of ground-based EW systems. 
  • Research and implement state-of-the-art processing technologies tailored for application to RF data processing. 
  • Understand supporting technologies including pulse detectors, de-interleaving, pulse descriptor word generation and spectrum survey strategies associated with counter Radar operations. 
  • Participate in algorithmic design and machine learning frameworks including classification and identification techniques. 
  • Identifies existing or potential problems and provides engineering advice and guidance and/or directs a course of action to resolve engineering matters.  
  • Develops presentations for support activities and/or higher headquarters to summarize results of actions against predetermined plans, current status or plans, progress, deficiencies, and outstanding accomplishments.  
  • Coordinate and support all aspects of EW operations, including planning, collection, processing, analysis, dissemination, and reporting associated with PL SSW products.  
  • Conduct technical analysis of foreign threat systems and develop countermeasures in coordination with PL SSW prime and sub-contractors.  
  • Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of databases and software applications for EW operations. 
  • Provide expert guidance and training to team members and vendors on new technologies and methodologies. 
  • Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in EW technologies. 

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

 

Knowledge and Skills 

  • Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and SysML.
  • Strong knowledge of software and hardware development, including programming languages such as Matlab, Java, C++, Verilog, and VHDL.
  • Strong background in full life cycle systems engineering, with expertise in subsystem decomposition, requirements analysis, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and multi-domain integration.
  • Experience working with cross-functional Agile teams, technical strategy development, and collaborating with government stakeholders to deliver mission-critical capabilities.
  • Excellent organizational, problem solving, and strategic thinking skills.
  • Strong

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