Senior SystemsRadar Engineer

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology Test & Evaluation Program Mission Support Engineering & Analysis and Training.We are seeking a Senior Systems/Radar Engineer with a Top Secret Clearance!

• Using a holistic approach designs develops evaluates and modifies end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle.
• Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description system planning and design and acquisition logistics.
• Ensures requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods.
• Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower-level detailed implementation requirements.
• Establishes and coordinates development of standards practices and procedures as related to the overall product development.
• Designs interfaces and brings system elements together so they work as a whole.
• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
• Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements.
• Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.
• Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with multi-discipline engineering teams to develop lower-level detailed requirements.
• Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.
• Generates system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures.
• Reviews test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements.

• Bachelors degree and 20 years of related work experience
• Extensive full life-cycle systems engineering experience from requirements definition and closure through design integration test and verification.
• PhD-level mathematician with deep background in pattern recognition high range resolution radar and combat identification
• Defense systems engineering experience from radar mode/algorithm development on major airborne radar and infrastructure programs.
• Experience with large-scale radar technology refresh and P3I efforts including technical baseline hardware obsolescence/upgrade strategies and successful contract capture.
• Strong program capture and proposal leadership experience managing quick-turn classified proposals and coordinating cost and technical volumes for winning bids.
• Demonstrated capability in secure facility and multi-level security (MLS) infrastructure design working closely with industrial security cyber and data technology teams.
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with SSBI