System Architect

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

• Lead systems engineering activities through the full solution lifecycle, including concept development, requirements definition, design, integration, verification, deployment, acceptance, and sustainment.

o Analyze customer specifications, operational concepts, and technical documentation requirements; decompose, derive, allocate, manage, and trace system, subsystem, hardware, software, interface, performance, safety, reliability, maintainability, availability, security, and supportability requirements. o Develop compliant system architectures, deliverable plans, and supporting approval documentation. o Lead architecture discussions, technical interchange meetings, design reviews, requirements reviews, test readiness reviews, and customer presentations; document decisions, assumptions, actions, and technical risks. o Identify solution and documentation compliance gaps; establish strategies, action plans, and recommendations to achieve contractual and regulatory assurance / approval objectives. o Develop and maintain systems engineering plans, architecture descriptions, requirements documents, interface control documents, design analyses, compliance matrices, safety artifacts, reliability analyses, and other required technical deliverables. o Define verification strategies and test methodologies; review or approve test plans, procedures, success criteria, results, and reports to confirm that the integrated solution meets requirements and operational concepts. o Provide technical leadership during system integration, performance and stress testing, failure recovery testing, regression testing, factory/site acceptance, and resolution of defects or field issues. o Perform or guide reliability, maintainability, availability, fault-tolerance, FMEA/FMECA, fault-tree, hazard, and operational analyses appropriate to the solution and customer requirements.

• Lead System Architectural responsibilities in Customer deployment projects such as site survey, equipment siting, and design.

• Coordinate engineering activities across product management, software and hardware development, test, quality assurance, configuration management, manufacturing, logistics, training, technical publications, deployment, and lifecycle support.

• Advise program and functional management on technical status, compliance, risks, tradeoffs, resource needs, and recommended corrective actions.

• Support customer, regulatory, quality, safety, and design approval reviews or audits, and provide accurate responses to findings and technical questions.

• Create and review technical documentation for engineering accuracy, clarity, consistency, traceability, and compliance with applicable standards and contractual data requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical / Electronics / Systems / Aeronautical / Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Minimum of 10 years of systems engineering or technical leadership experience in complex or mission-critical systems.

• Demonstrated experience in developing system architectures, and deriving, allocating, tracing, and verifying system requirements and integration / deployment of mission-critical or enterprise communications, surveillance, automation, networks, computing platforms; external interfaces.

• Demonstrated Experience developing and reviewing technical documentation, compliance evidence, engineering plans, architecture/design descriptions, interface documents, analyses, and test artifacts.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States and able to meet customer requirements for access to U.S. Government facilities and information.

• Advanced degree in engineering, science, or related discipline

• Prior domain knowledge in air traffic or mission critical automation environments.

• Knowledge of FAA systems engineering, Safety Management System, Safety Risk Management, System Design Approval, and acquisition or certification processes.

• Experience applying DO-278/DO-278A or comparable software assurance and safety practices in mission-critical systems.

• Hands-on experience with reliability, maintainability, and availability modeling; FMEA/FMECA; fault-tree analysis; FRACAS; and hazard analysis.

• Experience with Geographic Information System (GIS) modelling, Line of Sight (LoS) analysis.

• Experience and knowledge with video technologies and protocols.

• Experience leading multidisciplinary or geographically distributed teams through multiple phases of the system development lifecycle.

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.