Principal Systems Engineer- DRT

Thales Defense & Security, Inc. • GERMANTOWN, MD

29d • $149,702 - $191,286 • Hybrid

About The Position

Thales Defense & Security, Inc. (TDSI) is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to focus on their EW/SIGINT line of Digital Receiver Technology (DRT) products. DRT is a provider of SIGINT/EW system solutions for the US military, Five-Eyes, and Intelligence Community, developing state-of-the-art RF transceivers, DF antennas, and signal processing applications. The role involves working with a multidisciplinary development engineering team and on-site production facilities, customizing products to solve complex operational problems. This position offers the benefits of a small company with the support of a larger organization.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required- along with the ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Top Secret or SCI Level Security Clearance upon hire (current TS/SCI preferred).
• BSEE, BSCS, or equivalent. MSEE, MSCS or equivalent preferred
• 8+ years as a Design/ Systems Engineer.
• Must have strong presentation and writing skills. Fluent in English.
• Experience with system level design, development, and testing of tactical, secure, state-of-the-art military communications systems.
• Experience with requirements elicitation, decomposition, traceability, and lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of RF design, Digital design, Software design, and Information Security.
• Experience working in a laboratory environment with RF and Digital test equipment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with developing Software Defined Radios.
• Experience with developing SIGINT/EW systems.
• Experience integrating SIGINT/EW systems into platforms and Enterprise collection systems.
• Experience working with Direction Finding, DF, and Time Difference of Arrival, TDOA collection systems.
• Experience with signals exploitation and Electronic Attack SW development.
• Information Assurance and Cyber security experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide systems engineering expertise with developing SW Defined Radios for SIGINT and EW applications.
• Provide systems engineering guidance with signals exploitation, geolocation techniques, precision PNT, RF jamming modalities, information assurance, IA, and Cyber security.
• Lead product development systems activities/teams with use case analysis, requirements capture, allocation, and derivation, architectural analysis and design, system level testing, integration, verification and validation efforts, and transition to manufacturing.
• Support Business Development with customer meetings, product presentations and demonstrations, requirements elicitation, architecture development, and systems implementation.
• Provide subject matter expertise as a project design authority of HF, UHF, VHF, and SHF SIGINT and EW systems.
• Provide systems engineering expertise with SIGINT/EW solutions integration into military platforms and larger Enterprise level collection systems.
• Lead complex systems integration efforts of multi-disciplined engineering teams.
• Develop technical proposals and support cost estimation and evaluate competing product and solution offerings.
• Represent Thales at relevant industry forums.
• Serve as a customer liaison, supporting design reviews and other technical interchanges.
• Support field installation, testing, evaluation, and troubleshooting of equipment, along with government acceptance testing.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Yearly Incentive Compensation Plan
• Medical insurance for self and eligible family members
• Generous 401(k) program- up to 7% company contribution and 100% immediate vesting
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid wellness, vacation, and holiday leave
• Paid maternity, paternity, and parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal