System Analyst Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline or other relevant technical field and typically 6 or more years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree and typically 4 or more years; or a Ph.D. and typically 0 or more years; or an equivalent combination of education and experience for Level 5.
• For Level 6, a bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline or other relevant technical field and typically 8 or more years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree and typically 6 or more years; or a Ph.D. and typically 2 or more years; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Technical expertise and the ability to adapt it to unfamiliar or emerging disciplines, systems, mission areas, or methods.
• Ability to apply technical judgment to broad challenges requiring integration across related systems or methods.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects, major workstreams, complex programs, or significant multi-team technical efforts and deliver complex outcomes.
• Experience evaluating alternatives and trade-offs, recommending paths forward, managing ambiguity, and adapting technical approaches to evolving needs.
• Demonstrated mentorship, collaboration, and ability to communicate recommendations, risks, and technical findings to varied audiences.
• Experience contributing to technical reports, papers, presentations, proposals, or other formal technical deliverables.
• Relevant background and strong motivation to apply skills to communications problems.
• Highly effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team and set priorities.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret-level DoD security clearance.
• U.S. citizenship.

Nice To Haves

• Experience using MATLAB, Python, or a similar numerical analysis tool.
• Experience with communication systems, information theory, and/or detection and estimation theory.
• Background in statistical inference, numerical linear algebra and optimization methods, data processing, and scientific computing.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects, complex programs, major technical workstreams, multi-program initiatives, or technical portfolios involving multidisciplinary development, analysis, prototyping, integration, testing, evaluation, and technology transition.
• Apply technical expertise and systems-level judgment to complex and ambiguous problems, evaluating alternatives, trade-offs, risks, stakeholder needs, and mission implications.
• Translate broad or unclear objectives into actionable technical plans and influence program direction, architectures, systems, priorities, and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, sponsors, mission partners, and internal leaders to align priorities, resolve dependencies, and guide decisions and deliverables.
• Assess and improve technical tools, processes, methods, documentation, execution practices, and organizational capability.
• Mentor and support staff by reviewing work, framing trade-offs and risks, and developing staff and emerging leaders.
• Contribute to papers, reports, presentations, proposals, grants, roadmaps, and other materials that advance mission outcomes and technical direction.
• Design adaptive RF systems focused primarily on physical and link layers.
• Analyze RF communications scenarios and identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop concepts for next-generation DoD RF communications.
• Perform link-budget calculations and account for environmental characteristics that affect performance.
• Devise and coordinate laboratory and field experiments to measure and demonstrate new capabilities.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans.
• MIT-funded pension.
• Matching 401K.
• Paid leave, including vacation, sick, parental, and military leave.
• Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs.
• Mentorship programs.
• Work-life balance options.
• Voluntary benefits, discounts, and perks.