Senior Electronic Warfare Systems Engineer

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Key Responsibilities

Serve as the program's Electronic Warfare subject matter expert, providing technical recommendations and engineering assessments supporting acquisition, integration, fielding,

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Serve as the program's Electronic Warfare subject matter expert, providing technical recommendations and engineering assessments supporting acquisition, integration, fielding,

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Systems EngineerInfrastructure & Cloud

Senior Electronic Warfare Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

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→Serve as the program's Electronic Warfare subject matter expert, providing technical recommendations and engineering assessments supporting acquisition, integration, fielding, and sustainment decisions.
→Provide technical leadership for the integration, testing, certification, and sustainment of EW payloads and mission systems on the MQ-9 MUX MALE platform.
→Develop, decompose, trace, and manage EW system requirements across aircraft, payload, ground control station, and mission system architectures.
→Support development, integration, and assessment of Electronic Support (ES), Electronic Attack (EA), and Electronic Protection (EP) capabilities.
→Conduct technical trade studies, analyses of alternatives, and engineering assessments to evaluate EW technologies, architectures, and mission solutions.
→Support electromagnetic spectrum operations, RF compatibility assessments, and spectrum certification activities to ensure compliance with applicable standards and operational requirements.
→Perform end-to-end technical integration of EW payloads with aircraft systems, mission processors, communications architectures, and Ground Control Stations.
→Plan, coordinate, and support laboratory, ground, and flight test activities, including verification of requirements, certification objectives, and operational effectiveness.
→Support System Requirements Reviews (SRR), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), and other technical review events.
→Evaluate EW system performance against operational requirements, threat environments, and mission objectives, identifying risks and recommending corrective actions.
→Shape EW collection, Electronic Support Measures (ESM), and mission-data workflows while ensuring interoperability with Joint and Naval aviation architectures.
→Support development of airworthiness, certification, technical manual, training, and sustainment documentation required for fielding and lifecycle support.
→Collaborate with program managers, engineers, test teams, operators, and industry partners to ensure EW systems meet performance, safety, airworthiness, and certification requirements.
→Other duties as assigned in support of mission and business requirements.

Requirements

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Education: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline. Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of formal education.
Experience: Minimum twelve (12) years of experience supporting the design, integration, acquisition, testing, deployment, or sustainment of complex aerospace, aviation, EW, RF, or defense systems. Experience developing, integrating, operating, or sustaining Electronic Warfare systems. Experience supporting systems engineering activities including requirements development, architecture development, integration, verification, validation, or test.
Security Clearance: Active Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) eligibility. U.S. Citizenship required.

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or related technical discipline. INCOSE ASEP, CSEP, or ESEP certification, or DAWIA certification.
Experience supporting NAVAIR Systems Engineering Technical Review (SETR) processes. Experience with electromagnetic spectrum operations, spectrum certification, and RF systems engineering.
Experience with SIGINT, ELINT, Electronic Support Measures (ESM), ISR payloads, or airborne sensing systems. Experience supporting EW developmental testing, operational testing, and flight test programs.
Experience integrating airborne EW systems with command-and-control, tactical data link, mission-management, or Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) architectures.
Demonstrated experience supporting NAVAIR programs. Experience supporting military avionics systems.
Experience supporting unmanned aviation systems, particularly the MQ-9 MAGTF UAS/MUX Family of Systems or similar Group 4/5 UAS programs.
Experience preparing formal engineering reports, technical correspondence, requirements documentation, and executive briefing materials.

What We Offer

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