Senior System Integration and Test Engineer

THE COMPANY

Silvus Technologies is dedicated to one mission: connecting those who keep us safe. We do so by delivering the most advanced Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) radios powered by our custom and ever evolving Mobile-Networked MIMO waveform. Together, our radios and waveform provide the vital communications for mission critical applications in the harshest environments from underground tunnels to high altitude balloons. 

Silvus StreamCaster® radios are being rapidly adopted by customers all over the world ranging from the U.S. and Allied Nations Departments of Defense, to International, Federal, State and Local Law Enforcement agencies, all the way to the Superbowl, Grammys and industry-leading drone, robot, and other unmanned systems manufacturers. 

Wouldn’t you like to join an incredibly talented group of people, doing very challenging work, with the prime directive of “Keeping Our Heroes Connected”?

Silvus’ rapid growth is fueled by a focus on research and innovation and a team of the most passionate, skilled, and creative thinking individuals. If you are looking for a challenging experience, you owe it to yourself to learn how Silvus can provide a rewarding internship that creates a pathway to a fulfilling career.

THE OPPORTUNITY
Silvus is seeking a full-time Senior System Integration and Test Engineer who will report to the Senior Engineering Director on the Irvine Engineering team. The successful individual in this role will conduct a wide range of technical activities relating to system integration and test engineering and will work closely with different teams, including design engineering as well as sales and product engineering teams, to drive product development and testing and be a key component in enabling the development of cutting-edge systems and technologies.

The Senior System Integration and Test Engineer will be expected to help define and test new products and features, assist the internal design and sales engineering teams as well as customers with technical support and testing requests, perform technical analysis and systems integration duties, and engineer complete solutions to complex problems. This individual will work closely with internal Engineering teams as well as provide in-person support with up to 25% travel, both domestic and international. 

This position is fully onsite, Monday through Friday.  The location for this role is Silvus Technologies’ Engineering and R&D Office in Irvine, CA, near the vibrant Irvine Spectrum.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The following is a list of at least some of the current essential job functions of the position. Management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time at its discretion.
•    Design and test complete solutions using Silvus HW and SW products that solve unique, technical problems.
•    Prepare integration test plans and execute them. This may involve the lower-level embedded firmware and hardware testing as well as the product-level functional testing.
•    Define new products and features to fill gaps and perform product evaluations and field tests and trials for new product features and accessories.
•    Respond to requests and questions from internal teams as well as customers, providing debugging and troubleshooting support, systems integration engineering, product recommendations, engineering analysis, and other services both remotely and/or in person. Also support these requests via in-house lab or field testing and validation, as needed.
•    Test and harden existing features through firmware and hardware changes in realistic applications.
•    Support the Sales Engineering team by helping prepare for demonstrations, training, testing, or recreating bugs and issues they see in the field.
•    Support the Sales Engineering team in creating and maintaining customer-facing documents and content including manuals, user guides, videos, application notes, etc. to support customers and internal teams more efficiently. 
•    Travel requirement: Occasional travel up to 25%, both domestic and international (e.g., max 1 week out of the month typically confined to the workweek) to provide in-person engineering support to customers and the sales team including demonstrations, troubleshooting, system integration, and training. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
•    Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or other relevant fields plus a minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience, specifically in embedded firmware development and testing, scripting, embedded Linux, C/C++, and python; OR a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience with an advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Technol