Senior Systems Engineer

🕒 August 18

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Armaments Research Company

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11 - 50 employees

🎖️ Defense

🚀 Aerospace

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $225k Grant on 2018-06

Defense • Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence

Armaments Research Company is a firm that develops AI-enabled weapon sensors designed for large-scale combat operations. Their technology provides enhanced situational awareness and predictive logistics for military operations by analyzing weapon discharge and expenditure rates. The company's solutions help soldiers maintain focus during combat by offering real-time data on muzzle orientation and discharge times, improving decision-making at all levels of command.

📋 Description

• Serve as the systems engineer across the engineering team, bridging hardware, firmware, and cloud, and owning end-to-end system architecture and interfaces • Capture, decompose, and maintain system requirements spanning the embedded device, mobile applications, and cloud analytics, tracing them from customer need through verification • Own interface control documents and data contracts between firmware, mobile, backend, and data, including machine-readable, version-controlled schemas for BLE, WebSocket, and API contracts • Provide technical judgment across firmware behavior, sensor and hardware integration, power and timing constraints, networking protocols, and cloud data flow • Champion development processes including requirements management, design reviews, configuration and change control, and verification/validation • Create architecture descriptions, requirements, test plans, and decision records • Drive system-level verification and validation using component simulators, digital twins, and integration testing • Collaborate with mobile developers, firmware engineers, hardware engineers, and data scientists on multi-domain problems • Travel less than 10% for in-person events including system testing

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in systems, electrical, or computer engineering, computer science, or a related field • 7+ years of engineering experience spanning hardware/firmware and software systems • Ability to operate as a systems engineer across disciplines, owning requirements, interfaces, and architecture for embedded hardware and cloud software products • Hands-on depth in IoT and embedded systems, including sensor integration, firmware/hardware interaction, wireless links such as BLE, constrained-network operation, and device-to-cloud data paths • Familiarity with embedded C, an RTOS such as Zephyr, and low-power wireless SoCs such as Nordic nRF is a strong plus • Strong grasp of networking protocols and interface control documents (ICDs) • Familiarity with cloud-agnostic architectures and modern back-end/orchestration technologies • Working knowledge of decentralized identity management, including zero-trust frameworks • Excellent technical writing and documentation skills • Experience in a start-up environment • Must be a U.S. Citizen and otherwise eligible to obtain access to classified information and facilities • Must obtain any required authorization to access restricted information and facilities protected under U.S. laws and regulations

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity Options • 401k plan • Employer paid employee medical, dental and vision • 12 paid holidays • Flexible PTO Policy