Senior Advanced Systems Engineer

Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Company: Acara Solutions

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will play a key role in the design, development, analysis, and testing of advanced networks and information systems. You will support the entire systems engineering life cycle, working on mission-critical solutions that meet stringent government security and performance standards.

• Analyze and manage system and customer requirements

• Conduct functional and performance analysis

• Perform system design, trade studies, and systems integration

• Support system verification, validation, and interface definition

• Perform technical planning, including cost, schedule, risk, and supportability analysis

• Define system requirements and allocate them to subsystems and components

• Develop technical solutions and assess their feasibility based on vendor data and documentation

• Ensure compliance with government security specifications

• Support system accreditation/certification, including testing of:

  • Identification and authentication

  • Access control and auditing

  • Security labeling

• Develop or update system security documentation

• Work closely with:

  • Internal engineering teams and senior-level staff

  • Project teams and external stakeholders (e.g., DPME)

• Coordinate external interfaces and Interface Control Documents (ICDs)

• Participate in modeling and simulation activities

• Use analysis tools to evaluate system performance and design trade-offs

• Mentor and provide guidance to junior engineers

• Define and improve technical processes for system specification, input/output design, and platform compatibility

• Decompose high-level requirements into manageable, agile-friendly tasks to avoid overengineering

• Help design secure, high-performance systems

• Contribute to the successful completion of major programs

• Influence how technical platforms and frameworks are implemented across projects

• Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering or Science or Engineering or Mathematics.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience as a systems engineer.

• Agile experience.
• Creative, innovative responsibilities need advanced decision-making skills.
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Multi-level security domain expertise (and cross-domain).
• A working relationship with related people from Iridium, SDA, Northrop, York, and Lockheed.
• System-level networking person who can face off with the GFE WAN provider and coordinate detailed network design.
• Someone who can understand what is in and out of scope and manage that complexity.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• Active Secret DoD Clearance.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be needed to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), all employees assigned to this client must provide documentation verifying their status as a 'U.S. Person,' as defined in ITAR clause 120.15. A U.S. Person is a protected individual under the anti-discrimination provisions of U.S. immigration laws.