Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Airborne Systems

Date Posted:

2025-01-20

Country:

United States of America

Location:

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

Position Role Type:

Onsite

This role is primarily On-Site, with flexibility at hiring manager discretion.

Join Applied Signal Technology (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 Principal Systems Engineer with specialization in Airborne Systems, 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 signals intelligence collection and signal 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. Location Matters! Onsite collaboration with peers, physical interaction with laboratory equipment and system integration is essential for the success of this role.  While candidates currently located in  San Jose, CA, or Annapolis Junction, MD are preferred, we do offer relocation assistance for qualified candidates.  Remote locations may be considered but will require travel company office locations.

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Applied Signal Technology: WHO WE ARE

What You Will Do:

• Apply your systems engineering development experience to advance our next generation airborne Communications Intelligence (COMINT) and Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) solutions.

• Contribute to and be an integral part of multi-discipline engineering project teams and be challenged by real-work assignments.

• Perform technical research, develop technical solutions, documentation and presentations, and lead concept demonstrations and contribute to bid and proposal activities.

• Travel up to 20% time typically for business and customer meetings/demonstrations, operational field support and system deployments.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience.

• EW/ESM/ELINT system development domain experience and engineering technical skills in one or more of the following areas:

  • Radar signal processing and analysis

  • RF receiver characteristics (sensitivity, SNR, NF) and types

  • Direction of arrival measurements and emitter location techniques

  • Radar signal identification/sorting (Deinterleaving)

  • EW/ELINT PED operations and JICD 4 standards

• Detailed hands-on system development including system architecture development, complex signals processing algorithm development, rigorous performance testing and validation, and integration of systems.

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

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Active U.S. government issued TS/SCI security clearance or current SSBI.

• Practical systems and software engineering experience in product development, integration, deployment, and/or sustainment of systems for the U.S. Department of Defense and/or Intelligence Community.

• Experience with ELINT databases (EPL, CED, EWIR, MIDB, etc.)

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

• Experience performing system deployments (installation, integration/validation/verification), including travel to customer facilities.

• Practical experience with antennas, RF propagation and receivers, RF system calibration operations as these relate to subsystem-level analysis methodologies.

What We Offer:

Some of our competitive benefits package includes: