Network Engineer

Precise Systems delivers integrated, mission-ready solutions that advance warfighter readiness and strengthen our nation’s most critical defense programs. Through the power of our combined capabilities, we provide deep expertise in Advanced Engineering; Digital Transformation; Electromagnetic Warfare; Interactive Training & Simulation; Physical Sciences Research; Platform Lifecycle Support; and Foreign Military Sales. Unified by decades of trusted performance and expanded through strategic growth, our team applies innovative technologies, engineering rigor, and customer-focused execution to solve complex challenges and accelerate mission success. Guided by our commitment to partnership, precision, and performance, we deliver the scalable solutions and technical excellence our customers depend on—today and into the future.

Precise Systems is seeking a motivated, mission-focused Command and Control (C2) Integration and Network Engineer to support the integration of Expeditionary Electromagnetic Warfare systems into shipboard Command and Control environments. This position will provide systems engineering, network engineering, integration planning, cybersecurity coordination, and technical documentation support for EW system connectivity with shipboard information systems, including systems capable of passing EW system data, tracks, logs, updates, and other mission-relevant information. The ideal candidate will have strong experience designing, standing up, modifying, and maintaining networked environments and integrating complex systems across IP-based and non-IP-based networks. This role requires the ability to work across engineering, cybersecurity, shipboard system, program office, and In-Service Engineering Agent teams to identify interface requirements, assess technical feasibility, document integration approaches, and support system modernization efforts.

This role requires in-person support. 

Duties:

• Lead or support projects focused on integrating EW systems into shipboard Command and Control systems.
• Develop and coordinate integration approaches that enable EW system data, tracks, and relevant system information to be passed to appropriate shipboard information systems, including systems such as Cooperative Engagement Capability.
• Investigate shipboard information systems, including CANES or similar shipboard network environments, to identify potential pathways for transferring data to and from EW systems.
• Assess methods for transferring software updates, patches, configuration files, and other support data to EW systems through approved shipboard information systems.
• Assess methods for transferring system logs, diagnostic data, operational data, and other system outputs from EW systems to approved shipboard or support systems.
• Interface with shipboard subject matter experts, system owners, cybersecurity personnel, and technical authorities to identify requirements for connecting EW systems to shipboard networks and information systems.
• Identify and document protocol requirements, message formats, data sharing requirements, communication boundaries, hardware interfaces, software interfaces, and system integration constraints.
• Support development and review of interface documentation, including interface requirements, architecture descriptions, integration concepts, interface control documentation, and technical recommendations.
• Investigate classification levels, data handling constraints, and cross-domain solution requirements needed to support EW system integration with shipboard information systems.
• Support Authority to Operate, Risk Management Framework, cybersecurity documentation, and related system authorization activities associated with EW system network integration.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to ensure proposed network designs, interfaces, data transfer methods, and system modifications comply with applicable security requirements.
• Support the design, configuration, and maintenance of lab-based and representative shipboard network environments used for integration, testing, troubleshooting, and verification.
• Support integration of IP-based and non-IP-based systems, including lab networks, sensors, RF collection and transmission systems, proprietary communication interfaces, and other mission-specific data systems.
• Analyze network protocols, data flows, routing, switching, segmentation, ports, services, timing, message structure, and interoperability requirements.
• Support technical assessments of network performance, system connectivity, data exchange, cyber vulnerabilities, and integration risk.
• Coordinate with other Crane team members to ensure project information is shared across engineering, cybersecurity, logistics, test, configuration management, and In-Service Engineering Agent functional areas.
• Support planning for In-Service Engineering Agent requirements, including installation, checkout, fleet introduction, sustainment, modernization, and life-cycle support considerations.
• Develop project plans, technical briefings, integration schedules, risk summaries, engineering recommendations, and status updates for Program Office, Resource Sponsor, and technical team stakeholders.
• Provide consulting subject matter expertise to multiple programs or projects requiring network integration, C2 interface support, shipboard system connectivity, or EW system data exchange.
• Support troubleshooting of integration issues involving network connectivity, interface compatibility, data transfer, software configuration, security controls, and system interoperability.
• Document recommendations, assumptions, risks, limitations, and technical rationale for Government review and decision-making.
• Participate in technical meetings, working groups, design reviews, integration planning sessions, cybersecurity reviews, and program status meetings as required.

Desired Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Network Engineering, or a related technical field.

Desired Experience:

• 3+ years professional experience.
• Experience leading or supporting network integration projects involving complex systems, tactical systems, shipboard systems, DoD systems, or mission systems. 
• Strong knowledge of network protocols, network layers, routing, switching, addressing, data transport, message formatting, and interface design.
• Experience standing up networked environments from the ground up, including planning, configuration, integration, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation.
• Experience modifying, maintaining, and troubleshooting existing networked environments.
• Experience integrating non-IP-based networks or proprietary communication systems into IP-based network environments.
• Experience working with cross-domain network considerations, classification boundaries, or data transfer constraints.
• Ability to interface with technical SMEs to define system requirements, interface needs, hardware requirements, data flows, message structures, cybersecurity constraints, and integration dependencies.
• Ability to develop technical documentation, project plans, briefings, status reports, interface descriptions, and engineering recommendations.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to brief Program Office personnel, Resource Sponsors, shipboard SMEs, engineers, cybersecurity personnel, and technical leadership.
• Ability to work effectively with large and diverse teams on both long-term integration efforts and short-duration technical tasking.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Secret clearance; Top Secret/SCI eligibility preferred.
• Experience supporting Navy shipboard systems, tactical networks, C2 systems, CANES, CEC, or other Navy combat system information environments.
• Experience supporting EW systems, RF systems, RF collection systems, RF transmission systems, or systems that generate, process, or exchange tactical tracks or mission data.
• Experience supporting Risk Management Framework, Authority to Operate packages, cybersecurity documentation, STIG reviews, vulnerability scans, or system authorization activities.
• Experience with network lab environments, integration labs, hardware-in-the-loop environments, sensors, tactical data systems, or test infrastructure.
• Familiarity with system integration, interface control documentation, configuration management, engineering change processes, and In-Service Engineering Agent support.
• Experience supporting software update, patching, log transfer, data extraction, or system maintenance workflows in secure DoD environments.
• Experience supporting Navy, NAVSEA, NSWC Crane, or other DoD acquisition, engineering, test, or sustainment organizations.
• Ability to serve as a consulting subject matter expert across multiple projects requiring network architecture, system integration, C2 connectivity, or tactical data exchange expertise.

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance. Due to the sensitivity of customer-related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.

Precise Systems is dedicated to a shared vision and core values of Integrity, Respect, and Responsibility, which foster innovation and drive our continued success in the global marketplace. Precise Systems and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, status as an individual with a disability, or any legally protected status under federal, state, or local law. Visit www.GoPrecise.com for a listing of current openings and our comprehensive, employee friendly benefits summary.  Precise Systems participates in E-Verify.