Senior Staff Systems Engineer

Job Summary: The Senior Staff Systems Engineer - Seeker SME serves as the technical authority for the design, development, integration, testing, verification, and validation of Semi-Active Laser (SAL), Imaging (EO/IR), and RF seekers for precision-guided weapon systems. This role leads the development of seeker algorithms, performance-simulation models, and end-to-end terminal-guidance behaviors for all-up rounds. The Seeker SME partners closely with cross-functional teams - optical, software, electrical, mechanical, GNC, and production - to transition designs into production-ready seekers. As the primary subject-matter expert, this position requires regular customer interaction and close collaboration with business development to shape technical roadmaps aligned with emerging needs. The ideal candidate has deep experience in laser-seeker physics, RF radar/seeker architectures, signal processing, algorithm development, and full weapon-system integration and test, including ground, captive-carry, and flight testing. Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Technical Leadership & SME Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical authority for SAL, Imaging (EO/IR), and RF seeker technologies internally and with customers.
• Lead seeker architecture definition, requirements decomposition, and technical trade studies across optical, RF, electronic, mechanical, software, and GNC domains.

• Design, Development & Integration

• Lead design, development, integration, testing, verification, and validation activities for SAL and Imaging seekers, with added responsibility for RF seeker system analysis and architecture.
• Develop seeker performance simulation models for SAL, Imaging, and RF domains.
• Guide development of algorithms for target detection, tracking, angle estimation, filtering, countermeasure rejection, and terminal guidance performance.

• Hands On Test, Calibration & Verification

• Support customer field test events and provide expert guidance on test planning and execution.
• Conduct seeker calibration and verification using laser tables, IR collimators, optical benches, and RF target simulators.
• Generate test scripts to automate calibration and verification workflows.

• Cross Functional Engineering Collaboration

• Partner with optical, electrical, software, mechanical, RF, and GNC engineering teams to drive robust, integrated seeker designs.
• Recommend and document seeker design updates to improve performance, robustness, manufacturability, and resilience in contested environments.

• Customer Interaction & Roadmap Development

• Communicate technical concepts, risks, and decisions clearly to customers and senior leadership.
• Work closely with business development to shape seeker technical roadmaps aligned to customer needs, future mission profiles, and competitive landscape.

• Continuous Improvement & Industry Awareness

• Maintain awareness of industry trends, threat evolution, seeker technology advancements, and emerging algorithmic/processing techniques in SAL, RF, and Imaging domains., Job Summary: The Staff Electrical Engineer is a senior technical contributor within SlingWorks, one of Elbit America’s most advanced engineering teams developing next-generation …
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• BS + 12 years of relevant experience; MS + 9 years of relevant experience; PhD + 7 years of relevant experience
• Advanced technical expertise in seeker technologies, including AESA and phased-array radars, monopulse angle-tracking techniques, millimeter-wave (MMW) seekers, multimode RF/SAL/Imaging seekers, and hybrid guidance architectures.
• Experience with optical phenomena relevant to SAL and Imaging seekers, including radome effects, optical/IR propagation, laser energy degradation through atmospherics, boresight alignment, optical distortion, and backscatter impacts.
• Proficiency with advanced modeling and simulation tools, including MATLAB/Simulink, Python-based analysis environments, RF target simulators, optical simulation tools, and seeker end-to-end performance modeling frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with HWIL/SWIL test environments, RF target emulators, laser test benches, IR collimators, motion platforms, optical alignment tools, and automated calibration/verification equipment.
• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including SysML/Cameo for system architecture, requirements modeling, behavioral diagrams, interface definition, and verification planning.
• Knowledge of weapon-system environmental qualification, including ESS, vibe, thermal cycling, shock, EMI/EMC, and real-world seeker survivability considerations.
• Experience supporting ground, captive-carry, and flight test campaigns, including test planning, instrumentation, on-range troubleshooting, and quick-look analysis of seeker telemetry data.
• Background in countermeasure environments, including ECM/ECCM, SAL countermeasure rejection techniques, clutter-suppression filtering, false-target discrimination, target reacquisition logic, and terminal-engagement robustness.
• Strong understanding of embedded software/firmware integration, digital signal processing chains, FPGA-based seeker implementations, and high-rate data-path design.
• Prior customer-facing engineering experience, proposal support, technical roadmap development, and collaboration with business development on future seeker architectures.

Travel/Physical Requirements:

• 25-50% travel to be expected based on production needs.

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