Job Description
Principal Systems Engineer
Woburn, Massachusetts
Onsite
Contract
$114.96/hr Position Summary Principal Systems Engineer
- Support the Systems Engineering and Test Capabilities (SE&TC) Surface Radars & Sensors Center within the Long Range Radars (LRR) department.
- Contribute to the enhancement and modernization of the AN/TPY-2 radar system.
- Develop and analyze system requirements, design system architectures, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver advanced radar solutions.
- Participate in concept development, architectural design, requirements generation and flow-down, modeling and simulation, systems analysis, integration, testing, and evaluation of missile defense and sensor systems.
- Lead development of architectures and system-level requirements for the AN/TPY-2 radar.
- Contribute to:
- System architecture updates
- Performance requirements
- Algorithm designs and descriptions
- Scenario definitions
- Verification strategies
- Perform requirements analysis, modeling, and benchmarking to validate algorithm and system performance.
- Partner with software, integration, and test teams to deliver radar solutions.
- Support documentation, technical reviews, and customer engagements.
- Bachelors degree in a STEM field.
- Minimum 8 years of relevant engineering experience.
- Direct experience with radar or missile-defense sensor systems.
- Proficiency in:
- MATLAB (including object-oriented programming), or
- ADA, C, or C++ for algorithm development, system modeling, or performance analysis.
- Hands-on experience with:
- System modeling
- Algorithm design
- Test vector development
- Radar performance analysis
- Proven ability to lead technical work and contribute to architecture or design decisions.
- Experience developing or maintaining engineering processes, methods, or tools.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong technical writing and presentation skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively across cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
- Our client requires that candidates must have an active/current DoD Secret Personnel Clearance (PCL) to start, for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship.
- Advanced STEM degree.
- Experience with radar detection, discrimination, tracking, and signal processing algorithms.
- Experience with MBSE tools, including Cameo.
- Experience with DOORS requirements management, including multi-level traceability.
- Experience working in Linux-based engineering or development environments.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Experience interfacing with customers and leading technical solution development.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and engineering collaboration tools.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Woburn, MA |
| Industry | Other/Not Classified |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1983 |
| Website | http://apollopros.com/ |
About Company
Apollo Professional Solutions was founded by Gayle A. Williams in 1983 as a technical staffing firm supporting New England aerospace companies. Today, Apollo has grown into a $40 million year company, with 5 regional offices nationwide that offers diversified support to industries that include: defense, military, aeronautical, civil, food & beverage, healthcare, marine, pharmaceutical and scientific industries, as well as local government. We are an equal opportunity employers, that is also certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise by WBENC as well as the State of Massachusetts (SOWMBA Office.)
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