Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Date Posted:

2026-05-06

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-UT-WEST VALLEY CITY-338 ~ 1127 & 1128 w 2400 S ~ BLDG 338, Ast-Salt Lake City

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance Type:

TS/SCI without Polygraph

Security Clearance Status:

Active and existing security clearance required after day 1

Raytheon Company Managed by Collins Aerospace

Applied Signal Technology (AST) is seeking a Senior Principal Systems Engineer who strives for excellence and have a passion to be part of a team that strengthens our nation and improves the security of our world.  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, innovation, and work-life balance.

This is an ONSITE position at our Salt Lake City, UT location.  To find out more about AST, please click the following link - 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. 

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

• May travel up to 25%

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience.

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

• Experience interacting with development teams to resolve discrepancies and issues

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

• Experience with Systems Integration, test execution, and test results documentation

• Experience recognizing areas of improvement or customer needs and relaying them to senior staff as business development possibilities

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

• Active and transferable Top Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date with the ability to obtain a Top Secret SCI (TS/SCI) after start.

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

Qualifications We Prefer

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

• Experience with Design, Development, Integration and Test of complex Communication systems

• Experience developing high speed processing hardware or complex control software

• Experience developing training courses and training others

• Understanding of telecommunications systems concepts and signal processing fundamentals.

• Experience with scripting languages, such as Python or Bash

• Experience generating of test scripts to automate integration

• Experience formalizing, developing, and writing requirements, plans, and procedures based on customer discussions, briefings, interactions, and statements of work.

• Experience developing system level designs, high level con