Senior Principal Systems Engineer

** Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess (and be able to maintain) a Final Secret Clearance **

Location: Sunnyvale CA, El Segundo CA, Nashua NH, Cedar Rapids IA, Ft. Wayne IN

About Us

Pacific Defense is an industry leading developer of advanced RF and electronics systems for the U.S. Department of Defense and commercial customers. We specialize in Open Systems Architecture solutions for electromagnetic spectrum warfare. Our vision provides cost effective, highly capable, modular, and rapidly reconfigurable systems to our customers in less than half the time of traditional defense contractors. Our team delivers sensing and effects solutions for the Land, Air, Sea and Space domains at an unprecedented pace. We accomplish this strategy by combining broad domain experience in Radar, EW, SIGINT, and Communications with a go-fast execution model. Our model fully leverages Open Standards, like SOSA, CMOSS, and MORA, as well as rapid prototyping methodologies to bring our advanced capabilities to customers quickly. The Pacific Defense family includes facilities throughout the country, staffed with expertise spanning signal processing, novel algorithm development, cognitive systems, high performance computing, hardware design and development, and systems integration and test. We embrace the diversity of people, ideas, and a great employee experience to drive the innovation that runs through everything we do. Pacific Defense has established an excellent reputation in our professional community and is growing our team to seize new opportunities to solve tough challenges for national defense. Come join our team and accelerate your career!

Who are we looking for?

Pacific Defense is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer with the ability to lead and execute complex programs across the business. Pacific Defense has organized into an integrated CMOSS Solutions, Electronic Warfare and Space business areas. Within these business areas there are many products that support them including Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) products, Communications products (VLF through SHF and beyond), Electronic Warfare SDRs, and others. The Sr. System Engineer might specialize in one of the business areas or support across all of them, dependent on the qualifications and desires of applicants. Pacific Defense believes deeply in matching the job to the person.

Requirements

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• Passion for both program startup and test and integration (paper to scope)
• Skills needed for program startup including requirement generation, allocation, and verification.
• Lab experience to support/lead the Integration and Test efforts up to and including verification/validation/acceptance.
• Experience with PNT, Communications waveforms, Electronic Warfare (comms and/or non-comms).
• Perform supporting analysis needed for proposals and documentation.
• Be a voice into the direction of product development and future pursuits.
• Work solutions to program problems across the company
• Support new business initiatives as required to include contribution to technical content, distribution, and collection/validation of Engineering artifacts across all Engineering disciplines.
• Mentorship and growth of early career System Engineers

Required Skills:

• Understanding of Open Systems standards and experience using them (SOSA, CMOSS, MORA, VICTORY)
• Attention to detail and a self-starter.
• Willingness to help establish processes and procedures where there are none in a growing small company atmosphere.
• Experience with hardware architecture, specification, design, integration, and testing
• Work with customers to develop and document system requirements.
• Strong understanding of hardware engineering (mechanical, thermal, circuit card design), electrical engineering, electronics, and computer architectures
• Coordinate work to analyze and translate requirements into system architecture, hardware and software designs and interface specifications.
• Strong understand