Systems Engineer - Defense Systems

Want to stay technical, keep becoming a better systems engineer, and know that your work has a real operational impact?

This team supports systems used aboard active U.S. Navy ships, with opportunities to improve performance, usability, reliability, and integration across complex mission-critical technology.

We're hiring Systems Engineers to join a long-tenured engineering team supporting a major defense prime and one of the U.S. Navy's most sophisticated operational combat systems.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role, not people management and not primarily software development. Depending on your background and the team you join, your work may lean toward requirements, integration and test, V&V, or technical investigation.

What You May Work On

• Requirements development, decomposition and traceability
• IBM Rational DOORS / DOORS Next
• Systems integration and test
• Verification & Validation (V&V)
• Technical investigations and root cause analysis
• Defect analysis and troubleshooting
• Reading and working with existing C++ as part of systems engineering and investigation
• Working across software, hardware, test and systems engineering teams

What We're Looking For

• Systems engineering experience involving requirements, integration, test, V&V, or related technical work
• Experience with DOORS/DOORS Next or comparable requirements-management work
• Enough C++ experience to read and understand existing code and investigate system behavior
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or another relevant technical discipline
• U.S. citizenship
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
• Ability to work on-site in the Moorestown/Mount Laurel area

Already have an active Secret clearance? We'd especially like to hear from you.

You do not need previous Aegis or naval experience.

Experience with Python, MBSE, Cameo, MagicDraw, Rhapsody, MATLAB, automated testing, missile defense, naval systems, or integrated weapon systems is a plus.

Earlier in your systems engineering career? Please don't count yourself out. We're interested in engineers who already have relevant hands-on experience and want to broaden their exposure across the systems lifecycle, as well as more experienced engineers who want to remain technical.

Why This Role

You’ll work alongside experienced engineers on systems that are actually operational, with opportunities to learn across disciplines and continue growing technically without having to move into management.

You’ll also be joining an unusually long-tenured team with a small-company, close-knit culture inside a much larger defense environment. People know each other, help each other, and tend to stay. You get the scale and technical depth of a major program without feeling like an anonymous seat on a contract.

The team has built a trusted, long-standing relationship with its customer and is known for stability, technical collaboration, and exceptionally low turnover. And this isn't a team that's simply maintaining its footprint. It's thriving and continuing to grow.

If you're happiest digging into requirements, code, test results and system behavior to figure out why something isn't working and how to fix it, we'd love to talk.

Benefits

Generous paid time off, flexible work schedules (including options such as four 10-hour days instead of five 8-hour days, as well as other flexible arrangements coordinated with the team), high-quality medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), disability insurance, and tuition assistance.

You’ll also be working in a genuinely collaborative, “badge-less” environment where engineers are valued for what they contribute, not which company name is on their badge. You’re part of the engineering team, not treated like an outside contractor.