Senior Systems Engineer (RF Sensing and Mission Systems)

Location: Carlsbad, California, United States. Up to 25% travel required; US citizenship and an active United States Secret clearance are required.

Salary: $180,500–$285,000 annually. For specific locations in San Jose, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the New York City metropolitan area: $224,500–$336,500 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops connectivity, communications, sensing, and mission solutions for applications across air, land, sea, and space.

What you will do

• Develop system architectures, technical strategies, and implementation roadmaps for advanced RF sensing, communications, signal exploitation, and mission systems.
• Translate customer mission needs and objectives into system concepts, requirements, and technical solutions.
• Lead requirements development, decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification, and validation across hardware, software, networking, embedded, and sensing subsystems.
• Conduct system-level trade studies, technical performance analyses, and risk assessments.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, FPGA, embedded systems, networking, and integration teams to guide implementation.
• Support technical planning, customer engagements, proposals, technical reviews, CONOPS presentations, integration, verification, validation, and operational demonstrations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical discipline; an advanced degree is preferred.
• 10+ years of experience developing and architecting complex defense, aerospace, communications, sensing, or mission systems.
• Ability to develop system vision, architectures, and requirements from broad customer goals and mission objectives.
• Experience with RF sensing, signal exploitation, communications systems, or related mission applications.
• Strong understanding of networked and distributed system architectures.
• Experience with requirements analysis, allocation, verification, and validation; systems engineering methodologies; requirements management; and technical baseline control.
• Familiarity with embedded systems, software development, and hardware design processes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including customer-facing technical presentations and briefings, plus the ability to work across multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
• Active Secret clearance, US citizenship, and the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance with SAP approvals.

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed RF systems, networked sensing architectures, RF direction finding, geolocation, spectrum monitoring, signal classification, or signal exploitation.
• Familiarity with software-defined radios and modern communication systems.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering tools and practices.
• Experience with DOORS, Jama, or equivalent requirements management tools.
• Hands-on experience with embedded processing platforms, FPGA-based systems, digital hardware, and networking technologies.
• Experience supporting DoD programs through customer engagement, capture, proposal development, and technical leadership.
• Active Top Secret clearance; TS/SCI preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment within hirify.global’s Government organization.
• Compensation may include additional cash or stock incentives and medical, financial, and other benefits.
• Equal opportunity employment and accommodation support are provided.
• Travel of up to 25% is expected.