Systems Engineer

Location: Hybrid/on-site, with at least 4 days per week in the office in Arlington, Virginia; Mount Laurel, New Jersey; or San Diego, California. Approximately 10% travel is required. Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain an active Secret U.S. security clearance.

Salary: $90,000–$184,000 per year, with ranges varying by experience, skills, and education.

Company

hirify.global develops mission-critical software and systems solutions for the U.S. government, including automation and digital engineering for complex weapon and combat systems.

What you will do

• Develop test and data algorithms that reduce instrumentation streams into meaningful measures of system actions, behaviors, and outcomes.
• Translate customer and operational needs into system performance requirements, technical parameters, interfaces, and product capabilities.
• Plan, design, develop, integrate, and verify complex systems and systems-of-systems using lifecycle systems engineering practices.
• Analyze and decompose requirements, review software designs, create test cases and procedures, and troubleshoot discrepancies.
• Optimize system architectures and assess operational feasibility of proposed solutions.
• Work directly with customers, users, development teams, and deployment teams to resolve technical challenges.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or another STEM field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3–5+ years of relevant experience and knowledge of systems and software engineering practices.
• Experience with system integration, testing, verification and validation, requirements analysis, and test methodologies.
• Ability to understand system behavior from specifications and requirements and convert program requirements into viable technical solutions.
• Knowledge of the Systems Engineering V-Model and ability to communicate with customers and subject-matter experts.
• Ability to work on-site at a U.S. office at least four days per week and obtain or maintain an active Secret U.S. security clearance.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of AESA or DBF radar systems, distributed kill chains, combat systems, and distributed data.
• Experience creating agentic AI workflows, using SysML or UML, or applying model-based systems engineering.
• Experience with C++, Python, MATLAB, data visualization, instrumentation, data reduction, or DOORS.
• Experience testing large, complex DoD or distributed software systems and working with Agile processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial culture and collaborative engineering offices.
• Competitive benefits package, paid time off, and paid holidays.
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and matching.
• Optional 9/80 schedule with the second and fourth Friday off each month.
• Tuition assistance, professional development resources, commuter benefits, and company tech and social events.