Senior Systems Engineer

The role

You will serve as the systems engineer across the engineering team, bridging hardware, firmware, and cloud. You will own end-to-end system architecture, requirements, interfaces, and development processes for products combining embedded hardware with cloud software.

What you will do

• Serve as the systems engineer across the engineering team, bridging hardware, firmware, and cloud
• Capture, decompose, and maintain system requirements from customer need through verification
• Own interface control documents and data contracts between firmware, mobile, backend, and data
• Provide technical judgment across firmware behavior, sensor and hardware integration, and cloud data flow
• Champion development processes including requirements management, design reviews, and verification/validation
• Own the creation of technical documentation including architecture descriptions and test plans
• Drive system-level verification and validation using component simulators and digital twins
• Collaborate with mobile developers, firmware engineers, hardware engineers, and data scientists

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in systems, electrical, or computer engineering, computer science, or a related field
• 7+ years of engineering experience spanning both hardware/firmware and software systems
• Ability to operate as a systems engineer across disciplines owning requirements, interfaces, and architecture
• Hands-on depth in IoT and embedded systems including sensor integration, firmware/hardware interaction, and wireless links
• Strong grasp of networking protocols and interface control documents (ICDs)
• Familiarity with cloud-agnostic architectures and modern back-end/orchestration technologies
• Working knowledge of decentralized identity management, including zero-trust frameworks
• Excellent technical writing and documentation skills
• Experience in a start-up environment

Nice to have

• Familiarity with embedded C
• Familiarity with an RTOS such as Zephyr
• Familiarity with low-power wireless SoCs (e.g., Nordic nRF)

Benefits

• Equity Options
• 401k plan
• Employer paid employee medical, dental and vision
• 12 paid holidays
• Flexible PTO Policy

Before you apply

• Requires verification of U.S. Citizenship
• Must be eligible to obtain access to classified information and facilities
• Employment is conditioned on authorization to receive access to restricted information and facilities protected under U.S. laws and regulations

About the company

Armaments Research Company (ARC) is a technology company dedicated to bringing real-time situational awareness and battlefield logistics capabilities to the warfighter. The company leverages internet-of-things (IoT) technology and machine learning to derive actionable insights.