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Senior Systems Engineer

Lab - Ashburn, VA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-18 → 2026-10-02

Core

Senior Systems Engineer owning end-to-end system architecture, requirements, and interfaces for a full-stack IoT product combining embedded hardware, firmware, mobile apps, and cloud analytics for national defense.

Role type

Senior Systems Engineer (Hardware/Software/Firmware)

Builds

ARC AI-Enabled Weapons Sensor (AEWS) – embedded IoT devices, mobile applications, and cloud-based analytics

Domain

Defense / IoT / Embedded Systems / Cloud

Required skills

Systems engineering, requirements management, interface control documents (ICDs), embedded C, RTOS (Zephyr), networking protocols, cloud-agnostic architecture, technical writing, system-level verification and validation

Preferred skills

Sensor integration, wireless links (BLE), low-power wireless SoCs (Nordic nRF), decentralized identity management, zero-trust frameworks, startup environment experience

Technologies

BLE, WebSocket, API, Nordic nRF, Zephyr, cloud orchestration

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end system architecture and interfaces; capture and maintain system requirements across embedded, mobile, and cloud; drive system-level verification and validation including digital twins; create technical documentation (architecture, test plans, decision records); champion development processes; collaborate across hardware, firmware, mobile, and data science teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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