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NASA Engineering Lead

Frequentis
Columbia, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 9/23/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/31/2026
Job Introduction

Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom-tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards. We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever-changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.

Key Tasks

  • Plans, develops, and implements technical compliance of product and documents according to Government specifications, guidelines and standards.
  • Bridges the gap between stakeholders and the development team, interpreting business requirements into understandable development tasks to match a final product with the expected technical targets
  • Derives / allocates hardware / software requirements from high level system customer specifications
  • Leads design reviews and presentations of engineering solutions to customers
  • Identifies gaps in compliance and develops strategies and engineering tasking to fulfill requirements ensuring adherence to industry stabdards, regulations, and best practices.
  • Interfaces with other business operations (i.e., manufacturing, logistics, test, etc.) to ensure system engineering compliance
  • Leads and/or executes integration of software and hardware components, testing procedure development and perform system debug, security assessments and system patching, factory acceptance tests, site acceptance tests, failure location and analysis, creation of technical documentation supporting production build (e.g., rack layouts, cable plans, system layouts, system configuration, build of materials, build plans/instructions), support to production teams to troubleshoot and solve production issues.
  • Participates in on-site installations, integration, testing and maintenance activities.
  • May participate in remote system monitoring, maintenance, and tier 2 on call support.

Key Qualifications

  • BS in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience with IT systems and engineering.
  • 10 years experience in Systems Engineering solutioning, integrating, deploying, and supporting integrated hardware and software systems in the area of networking and communications.
  • 5 years experience in leading/overseeing an engineering team and direct customer interfacing
  • Excellent problem solving, analytical, and technical troubleshooting skills.
  • Highly organized with strong written, verbal communication, and management skills.

Our Values

Frequentis USA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Around 2,100 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work-life-balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities. In doing so, we focus on long-term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know-how of our employees stable.

Benefits

Benefits: We are committed to supporting our mission through the following employee benefits:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Health Savings Accounts
  • Competitive 401(k) Plan with company match and immediate vesting
  • Employee Life Insurance & AD&D
  • Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Generous holidays, including a full week off from December 25 to January 1
  • PTO that scales with tenure and sick leave
  • Company-sponsored team-building activities to boost morale and productivity.

TRUST-BASED

MODERN MENTORING TRAININGS

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IT-EQUIPMENT PROGRAM

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