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Senior Systems Engineer - EW

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El Segundo, CA, United States
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** Due to the classified nature of our work, U.S. citizenship is required. Candidates must be willing to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance.

About Us

Pacific Defense, a small fast-growing company that develops and provides advanced multi-function RF systems for the U.S. Department of Defense, is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to work in our Electronic Warfare engineering team. As a member of the Pacific Defense group of companies, our growth is accelerating. Pacific Defense designs and builds advanced, military standards-based, modular open systems architecture (MOSA) systems. These systems conform to the Army's C4ISR Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) and the Air Force's Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Standard. These CMOSS /SOSA systems are used for multi-mission electronic warfare, tactical communications, signals intelligence, cyber-EW, high performance computing and often simultaneous operation of these capabilities.

Who are we looking for?

Pacific Defense is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer - EW 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 Systems, and others. This Systems Engineer will specialize in the Electronic Warfare business area but can support across all of them, dependent on the qualifications and desires of applicants and the needs of the business. Pacific Defense believes deeply in matching the job to the person.

Requirements

Requirements

  • Passion for both program startup and test and integration.
  • A proven drive for rigor in system and subsystem verification.
  • 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 with a focus on automation in testing.
  • Experience with Electronic Warfare (comms and/or non-comms), PNT, and Communications waveforms.
  • Proven field experience that demonstrates the ability to understand customer use cases and to rapidly adapt to changing needs.
  • 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 System Engineers.

Required Skills

  • Communications and Non-Communications Electronic Support (ES) and Electronic Attack (EA) System development and deployment experience.
  • Communications and Non-Communications signal properties, their detection, measurement, identification, and degradation, disruption, and denial.
  • Expertise in EW System verification using standard test equipment and special purpose subsystems.
  • Strong preference for hands-on work.
  • Understanding of Open Systems standards and experience using them (SOSA, CMOSS, MORA, VICTORY).
  • Possess acute attention to detail and be proactive and self-motivating.
  • Willingness to help refine processes and procedures to optimize rapid but assured system realization in a growing small company atmosphere.
  • Experience with hardware architecture, specification, design, integration, and testing, especially transceivers, amplifier subsystems, and antenna subsystems
  • Ability to work with customers to develop and document system requirements.
  • Demonstrate a strong understanding of hardware engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, computer architectures, and software architecture.
  • Coordinate work to analyze and translate requirements into system architecture, hardware and software designs and interface specifications.
  • Ability to design, analyze, and evaluate hardware products.
  • Experience following processes to ensure quality and predictability of hardware development.
  • Develop models or simulations and apply advanced computer programs, analytical techniques, or control strategies to effectively meet requirements and resolve problems.
  • Critical thinker, with prudent risk tolerance to balance risk and technology with requirements, cost, and schedule.
  • Competitive spirit accepting of challenges with a willingness to learn and recover from mistakes.
  • Willingness to learn and explore on your own, and travel, when necessary, in support of business goals.
  • Strong desire to work at a smaller company free of many of the “big company” roadblocks.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills with experience presenting technical material.

Preferred Experience

  • 5+ years of experience
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or other relevant technical field.

Benefits

Pacific Defense provides competitive salaries and immediately vested 401K match. We provide 100% coverage options for the employee, and 75% coverage for dependents’ medical, dental, vision, and life insurance premiums, as well as a flexible spending account for incidental health care expenses. We offer paid time off and federal holidays to spend time with family, pursue outside interests, or just get some extra rest.

Pacific Defense is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual

orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.

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