Systems Engineer - Compute and Software Systems
About The Position
SciTec, a subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, is a defense contractor specializing in advanced technologies for U.S. National Security and Defense. For over 45 years, SciTec has supported Department of Defense customers by developing innovative remote sensing algorithms, tools, and techniques for data exploitation in areas such as missile defense, intelligence, surveillance, & reconnaissance, space domain awareness, and aircraft survivability. This role is for a Systems Engineer with experience in software-defined sensor data processing pipelines and supporting computational systems for the Ground‑Based Radar Digitization (GBRD) modernization program. The engineer will be responsible for use case development, requirements definition, architecture development, and verification support for a modernized, software-centric radar data processing backend system. Note: SciTec exclusively works on U.S. government contracts requiring U.S. citizenship for all employees and cannot sponsor work visas. U.S. citizenship is mandatory for obtaining and maintaining a security clearance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
- 5+ years of experience in systems engineering for sensor systems, large‑scale real‑time systems, or mission‑critical software‑processing pipelines.
- Experience developing or maintaining system architectures, requirements, and interface specifications for data‑processing systems.
- Familiarity with the design and architecture of high-throughput sensor data processing systems.
- Familiarity with model-based systems engineering tools and techniques.
- Strong technical communications skills for cross‑functional collaboration.
- U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain a DoD clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with radar‑processing architectures.
- Experience in developing modular and open systems architectures.
- Experience with Kubernetes or high-performance computing environments.
- Experience supporting software-in-the-loop or hardware‑in‑the‑loop integration environments.
- Familiarity with digital twin approaches or large‑scale MBSE repositories.
- Familiarity with DoD cybersecurity (NIST 800-53) and program protection processes.
- Active DoD security clearance.
Responsibilities
- Derive, refine, and manage system‑level and subsystem‑level requirements for software processing flows including data ingest, timing/synchronization, signal processing outputs, and interfaces.
- Define requirements constraining the system design, including latency, throughput, cybersecurity requirements, and space/weight/power constraints.
- Maintain full traceability of requirements within a digital engineering environment.
- Develop a high-level software architecture for deploying signal processing services within a Kubernetes-based environment.
- Support the design of computing infrastructure which can execute the designed software architecture.
- Ensure that the resulting system is modular, open, interoperable, and addresses cybersecurity requirements.
- Create and maintain MBSE artifacts (SysML diagrams, functional flows, ICDs represented as digital models) that describe system behavior, support design decisions, and drive verification planning.
- Define integration strategies for software‑processing components.
- Support system-in-the-loop testbed planning, verification event preparation, and validation of processing chains against mission needs.
- Collaborate with radar‑frontend teams, signal processing algorithm developers, cybersecurity, mission operations stakeholders, MBSE validators, and government technical directors to ensure system alignment, risk reduction, and requirement compliance.
- Identify and track technical risks for the processing architecture and supporting computing infrastructure.
- Support configuration management processes within the centralized digital repository.
- Develop artifacts and communicate effectively in support of external program reviews and internal design meetings.
Benefits
- 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) match
- 100% company paid HSA
- Medical insurance, with a choice of 2 buy-up options
- 80% company paid Dental insurance
- 100% company paid Vision insurance
- 100% company paid Life insurance
- 100% company paid Long-term Disability insurance
- Short-term Disability insurance
- Annual Profit-Sharing Plan
- Discretionary Performance Bonus
- Paid Parental Leave
- Generous Paid Time Off, including Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Pay
- Flexible Work Hours
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
