Lead - Systems, Waveforms (Wireless Communications)

Our people are our primary asset, and we believe that strong, cohesive teams are the key to leveraging brilliant individual contributions to even greater achievements. Our Engineering Team is seeking a Staff System Engineer, Waveforms. You would be responsible for working on next generation self-networking hand-held radios or help create new modem technologies for the toughest communication problems in wireless MANET. A typical day might start with you working in your personal office doing system analysis, requirements management, and test plan development. It could move into one of our many state-of-the-art labs with your teammates to lead or do hands-on system integration and test. Enhancing cohesiveness and maintaining team morale is a responsibility of all our team members, as is the ambition for self-improvement and talent development. Through this dedication to unity and professional advancement, each team member is directly impacting the successful outcome of TrellisWare's deliverables and setting the tone for our core values of delivering excellence, pushing boundaries, and empowering people.

The position being hired is Lead - Systems, Waveforms (Wireless Communications) (the "Lead"). This position reports to the Director of Waveforms within the Tactical Communications Organization (TCO).

The essential duties and responsibilities include:

The Lead shall be capable of serving as a Project Engineer leading a multi-disciplinary team to deliver novel products and capabilities.  

The Lead shall be capable of hands-on System Engineering and verification work and will often lead other engineers in execution of systems analysis, integration and test activities.

The Lead manages the Waveform System Team (WST) within the Waveforms Group. The WST is responsible for the system and verification engineering work (including requirements management, integration and test, and verification) with a focus on waveform functionality and performance. The WST staff will consist of both System Engineers and Test Engineers.

The Lead is responsible for ensuring that the WST staff members have the training and infrastructure to provide System Engineering services and execute accurate and efficient verification of TrellisWare waveforms.

Education and work experience requirements are:

• Typically has a BS degree or higher from an accredited university.
• 5~10 years’ experience in system engineering, test planning and execution.
• Experience in managing direct reports

To be considered for this position, you would need to meet, at a minimum, the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed here:

• Considered a subject matter expert in their field and looked to for technical decision making, brainstorming, troubleshooting and innovative problem solving.
• Experience leading development projects for products in the field of wireless communications.
  • Ability to define project scope definition and communicate the scope clearly through system/sub-system and requirements definition
  • Ability to lead development of novel capability by managing a multi-disciplinary team
  • Ability to ensure new capability is systematically verified.
• Strong knowledge in the following concepts:
  • Systems Engineering best practices
  • Systems integration testing of wireless radios.
    • Understanding of physical layer components such as error-correcting codes, modulation, power amplifiers, filters etc.
    • Understanding of physical layer testing procedures such as testing for RF blockers, IP3, power spectral densities, packet error rate measurements, sensitivity measurements.
    • Understanding of fundamental MAC protocols such as TDMA, CSMA etc.
    • Understanding of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) networking
  • Test automation
    • REST API programming, SQL programming and scripting.
    • Strong working knowledge of programming (C, Python, Shell).
  • Management approach that promotes employee growth and collaboration
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met in order to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable those with qualified disabilities.

• Able to frequently sit, stand, walk, use hands to fingers, handle or feel, reach within hands and arm's length, stoop, kneel, and crouch, talk and hear.
• Regularly required to sit for extended periods of time; frequently required to use office equipment such as PC, printer, telephone, etc.
• Able to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Additional requirements are:

• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency

Note: Many of TrellisWare's positions require a security clearance or the ability to obtain one. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.