CareerPlan

Senior UT System Engineering Specialist

Ottawa, Canada or Bethesda, USFull-time2026-10-16 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Provide technical leadership for User Terminal systems engineering activities supporting secure communications programs and advanced connectivity applications for government, enterprise, and partner use cases.

Role type

Senior individual-contributor systems engineering specialist (satellite communications)

Builds

User Terminal architectures, requirements, verification strategies, and operational concepts for fixed, mobile, airborne, maritime, portable, and autonomous platforms

Domain

Satellite communications, secure communications, aerospace, telecommunications

Required skills

Systems engineering, requirements management, architecture design, verification planning, stakeholder management, technical writing, Capella modeling, secure communications concepts, transmission-security scheduling, location protection, resiliency engineering

Preferred skills

Experience with Jama, DOORS, Jira, Confluence, RF, antennas, waveform processing, networking, software

Technologies

Capella, Jama, DOORS, Jira, Confluence

Responsibilities

Lead government, enterprise, and partner User Terminal Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) and system-level documentation; Define and mature requirements for specialized User Terminal applications; Provide technical leadership for architecture, requirements allocation, interfaces, design trades, and verification planning; Direct requirements cleanup, compliance matrices, and requirements-to-test traceability; Lead technical workshops, design reviews, and supplier engagements; Guide evaluation of specialized User Terminal vendors; Mentor systems engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC