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Are you a bold thinker? We dream big at Sierra Nevada Corporation—advocating the exploration of space, keeping service members safe and creating the systems that keep our world united and sustain our way of living. Join our team! As a Systems Engineer, you will be using your skills and expertise to research, architect, model, simulate, test, certify and improve cutting edge products and services. You'll be developing complex system architectures within contextual modeling platforms, ushering them from operational concept through preliminary and detailed design, simulation, and test using progressive tools. As a cross-functional engineer, you are in charge of system-level ownership of new products and processes through the product lifecycle.

The Emerging Concepts and Technologies (ECT) group at Sierra Nevada Corporation is a cutting-edge technology incubator. Our team fields new, hard problems facing our customers and rapidly delivers capabilities to enable mission success. In this position, you will work with a small multi-disciplinary team to design, model, build, test and deploy solutions to meet customer operational needs and challenges.

The Mission Solutions and Technologies (MST) business area provides affordable, turn-key command/control, communications, integrated ISR, force protection and security solutions worldwide. The MST team has a long legacy of supporting the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, commercial and international customers with years of experience in platform operations, engineering and full lifecycle management across domains – air, land, sea, space and cyber. https://www.sncorp.com/company/business-areas/

Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary development team to rapidly provide solutions to customer challenges

• Elicit, derive, document and maintain hardware, software, and/or system requirements to meet internal or external customer specifications

• Support systems integration activities

• Document, plan, manage, and perform testing on systems and sub-systems to verify requirements

• Provide data and materials to support internal and external customer facing meetings

• Analyze, design, simulate, and implement algorithms in hardware descriptor languages, HDL (VHDL, Verilog), based on customer requirements and/or MATLAB model(s)

• Implement and validate signal processing concepts such as FFTs, channelizers, digital filters, digital modulation, digital down/up-conversion, adaptive processing, etc

Must-haves:

• Bachelor's of Science degree in System Engineering or related discipline and typically 2 or more years of relevant experience

• Practical knowledge of engineering principles and practices

• Experience working in multi-disciplinary design and development teams

• Knowledge of requirements management, functional requirements parsing, derivation, and allocation; systems design, systems integration, technical risk identification and management strategies, and Verification and Validation (V&V) principles

• Experience in Radio Frequency (RF) Hardware Development and Test

• Typically 6 or more years of relevant experience developing DSP software systems, preferably in a SIGINT/military context

• Understanding of Computer Aided Engineering tools

• Proficiency in C/C++, Python, and other scripting languages commonly used in DSP systems

• Experience with signal processing libraries and frameworks such as Redhawk, GNU radio, intel primitives (IPP), liquid DSP, FFTW, GNU scientific libraries, etc

Preferred:

• Experience with requirements management and system modelling tools, such as DOORS, Rhapsody, NoMagic, MATLAB

• Knowledge of industry standard mechanical design principles, to include, but not limited to requirements management, Model Based System Engineering (MBSE)

• Experience or certification in INCOSE standards

• Background in the Aerospace and Defense Industry

• Exposure to baseline definition and maturation in a complex development setting, including the use of high impact trade studies and other measures

• Understanding of establishing and tracking key Technical Performance Measurements (TPM)

• Experience with MOSA/SOSA standards

• Understanding of industry standard software languages such as C, C#, C++, HTML, Java, Python, and Bash

• Familiarity with FPGA and ARM processors and memory access (e.g. DMA)

• Experience with RF systems, including signal generators, amplifiers, filters, and spectrum analyzers

• Familiarity with Signals Detection, ISR, ELINT, or ESM

SNC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%, life insurance, 3 weeks paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more (https://www.sncorp.com/careers/total-rewards/) .

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S. Security Clearance. U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance for employment. Non-U.S. Citizens may not be eligible to obtain a security clearance. The Department of Defense Consolidated Adjudications Facility (DoD CAF), a federal government agency, handles the adjudicative aspects of the security clearance eligibility process for industry applicants. Adjudicative factors which affect the outcome of the eligibility determination include, but are not limited to, allegiance to the U.S., foreign influence, foreign preference, criminal conduct, security violations and illegal drug use.

Learn more about the background check process for Security Clearances. (https://www.dcsa.mil/About/)

SNC is a global leader in aerospace and national security committed to moving the American Dream forward. We’re known and respected for our mission and execution focus, agility, and disruptive and rapid innovation. We provide leading edge technologies and transformative solutions that support our nation’s most critical security needs. If you are mission-focused, thrive in collaborative environments, and want to make our country stronger with state-of-the-art technologies that safeguard freedom, join our team!

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome our employees to bring their whole selves to their work. SNC is committed to fostering an inclusive, accepting, and diverse environment free of discrimination. Employment decisions are made without regarding to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law. Contributions to SNC come in many shapes and styles, and we believe diversity in our workforce fosters new and greater ways to dream, innovate, and inspire.