Business Unit: Cubic Defense Company Details: Cubic DTECH Mission Solutions in Ashburn, Virginia designs and builds small form-factor deployable communications systems for use in rugged and tactical environments. We are looking for a systems engineer to join our XD product team. The XD product team develops, deploys, documents, accredits, maintains, and supports our Cross Domain Solution product line. As a systems engineer you would be capturing product requirements, defining product architecture, and otherwise providing interdisciplinary guidance to various contributing engineering roles from hardware to software to infrastructure. If you have experience in CDS or other relevant "high assurance" system design certification processes this is a perfect fit for you. Job Details: Job Summary: Provide technical leadership and systems engineering support for a product development team. Apply systems engineering processes and skills to systematically convert customer needs into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Responsible for systems planning, system and lower level requirements development, system design, analyses and trade studies, hardware/software design oversight, system integration, system level test, and subcontractor technical management/oversight. Prove input and support for project risk management activities. This position typically works under general supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority. Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: Provide technical oversight on a given project Estimate, plan, schedule, and execute systems engineering activities Develop and manage the system requirements Allocate system requirements to subsystem and oversee development/refinement of lower-level requirements Define operational concepts for new capabilities Perform analyses and trade studies as necessary to aid in the selection of system concepts Integrate specialty engineering disciplines into a project team Direct a project team to define and document the system architecture and design Influence hardware and software designs to ensure compliance with requirements and system design Perform hardware/software integration planning and oversee activities Perform system level test planning and oversee test implementation Interface with both internal and external stakeholders including but not limited to engineering, program management, quality, finance, business development, services, sub-contractors, validation labs, end users and customers. Perform technical risk management activities Support engineering activities for proposal efforts Monitor, mentor, and train less experienced systems engineers Minimum Job Requirements: Four-year college degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline, plus five years of related experience, or an applicable Master’s degree with three years of related experience. Experience in creating, analyzing, documenting and testing system and subsystem designs. Effective written and oral communication skills. Ability to use personal computer software such as spreadsheets and word processing programs and requirement management database tool. Mental ability to perform engineering problem solving and analytical tasks. Must be able to work under project deadlines and associated cost and schedule constraints. Must be able to obtain a Security Clearance, if necessary. The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business needs. #LI-Hybrid Worker Type: Employee Cubic creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation that make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities that help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global challenges through innovation and service to our customers and partners. We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Cubic is dedicated to providing a comprehensive employee benefits program. All regular, full-time and part-time employees (working an average of 20 hours per week) are eligible for benefits that are effective on the first day of employment. Cubic offers medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid disability (company continues full pay and benefits for up to six weeks), life insurance options, critical illness and accident coverages, Flexible Spending Accounts, a pre-paid legal plan, travel accident insurance, an award-winning well-being program which includes an employer-funded lifestyle spending account, up to six weeks of paid parental leave, and a 401k Retirement Plan with a company match. Employees can also take advantage of backup childcare, pet care, pet insurance, virtual tutoring, and a tuition reimbursement program. Many locations follow a 9/80 work schedule with time-off policies to help encourage employees to take time for rest and relaxation. Full-time salaried employees are eligible to participate in Cubic’s flexible time-off arrangement. Part-time and hourly employees accrue paid time-off (PTO)/Sick leave at a rate of 5.23 hours bi-weekly. Lastly, Cubic provides its employees 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. With a presence in over 60 countries and more than 5,000 employees worldwide, Cubic is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer. We are committed to ensuring a workplace free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, military or veteran status, and any other basis protected by applicable law. For more information on Equal Employment please visit: http://www.cubic.com/Careers/Applicant-Help To learn more, visit Cubic.com. Follow us on LinkedIn!