Senior Systems Architect

Echodyne Corp•Kirkland, WA

2d•$137,196 - $205,382

About The Position

Echodyne is seeking a Senior Systems Architect to join its Advanced Technology Development team. The role defines system architectures for rapid radar prototypes and critical technologies and guides cross-disciplinary technical decisions. The architect connects sensing, calibration, compute, power, packaging, software, testing, and field-demonstration needs into a coherent system approach. The work focuses on prototype and advanced technology development, with meaningful ownership and a direct role in shaping future radar products. The ideal candidate brings practical systems architecture experience, broad technical judgment, disciplined experimentation, and the ability to enable fast decisions without slowing prototype execution. This is an exempt role. The expected annual salary range is $137,196–$205,382 USD. Applicants must be eligible to handle export-controlled technical data, including ITAR- and EAR-controlled information, or obtain required government authorizations.

Requirements

Experience developing system architectures for complex hardware and software products, embedded systems, radar systems, sensing products, aerospace systems, or defense technology.
Ability to translate mission needs, customer use cases, and operating environments into system requirements, architectures, interfaces, technical budgets, and verification intent.
Experience defining and managing performance budgets, error budgets, design margins, assumptions, interfaces, and technical baselines.
Experience leading cross-disciplinary trade studies and resolving decisions across RF, electrical, digital, mechanical, software or firmware, test, manufacturing, quality, and supplier constraints.
Experience planning prototypes, experiments, integration events, and verification activities that connect technical risk to objective evidence.
Ability to communicate complex system decisions, risks, and recommendations clearly to engineering and business stakeholders.
BS in Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, and at least 8 years of relevant systems engineering or architecture experience; equivalent experience is also accepted.
Eligibility to handle export-controlled technical data, including ITAR- and EAR-controlled information, or obtain required government authorizations.

Nice To Haves

Experience in advanced technology development, pathfinding, applied research, rapid prototyping, or technology readiness maturation.
Experience with radar, phased arrays, RF systems, signal processing, advanced sensing, autonomy, or other high-reliability and mission-critical products.
Experience with radar calibration, high-speed data interfaces, compute architectures, high-power subsystems, tiled apertures, or compact electronics packaging.
Experience using MATLAB, Simulink, Python, or equivalent tools for system analysis, budgets, modeling, test-data evaluation, or trade studies.
Familiarity with reliability, safety, EMI and EMC, environmental qualification, cybersecurity, design for manufacturing and assembly, supportability, and product assurance.

Responsibilities

Develop mission needs, concepts of operation, success criteria, and system objectives for radar prototypes and future Advanced Technology Development efforts.
Translate product goals, use cases, operating environments, research inputs, and business constraints into functional, logical, and physical architectures, requirements, interfaces, and technical budgets.
Lead trade studies across radar performance, RF and digital architecture, compute, calibration, power, thermal, mechanical packaging, software, test, cost, schedule, and manufacturability.
Define prototype experiments, integration plans, and verification evidence to retire the highest-impact technical risks before formal product development.
Maintain the technical integrity of architecture baselines, key assumptions, interfaces, margins, decisions, risks, and configuration-sensitive system information.
Collaborate with Product, Research, RF, electrical, FPGA, software, mechanical, PCB, test, manufacturing, suppliers, and key stakeholders to deliver mission-critical solutions.
Turn prototype results into clear architecture decisions, reusable system guidance, and transition packages that product-development teams can execute.