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Echodyne

Develops solid-state metamaterials electronically scanned radar

Senior Systems Architect - Advanced Technology Development

Aerospace EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeKirkland, WA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience developing system architectures for complex hardware and software products, embedded systems, radar systems, sensing products, aerospace systems, or defense technology.
  • Ability to translate mission needs, customer use cases, and operating environments into system requirements, architectures, interfaces, technical budgets, and verification intent.
  • Experience defining and managing performance budgets, error budgets, design margins, assumptions, interfaces, and technical baselines.
  • Experience leading cross-disciplinary trade studies and resolving decisions across radio frequency, electrical, digital, mechanical, software or firmware, test, manufacturing, quality, and supplier constraints.
  • Experience planning prototypes, experiments, integration events, and verification activities that connect technical risk to objective evidence.
  • Ability to communicate complex system decisions, risks, and recommendations clearly to engineering and business stakeholders.
  • A Bachelor of Science in Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, and at least 8 years of relevant systems engineering or architecture experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Eligibility to handle export-controlled technical data, including ITAR- and EAR-controlled information.

Responsibilities

  • Develop mission needs, concepts of operation, success criteria, and system objectives for radar prototypes and future Advanced Technology Development efforts.
  • Translate product goals, use cases, operating environments, research inputs, and business constraints into functional, logical, and physical architectures, requirements, interfaces, and technical budgets.
  • Lead trade studies across radar performance, radio frequency and digital architecture, compute, calibration, power, thermal, mechanical packaging, software, test, cost, schedule, and manufacturability.
  • Define prototype experiments, integration plans, and verification evidence needed to retire the highest-impact technical risks before formal product development.
  • Maintain the technical integrity of architecture baselines, key assumptions, interfaces, margins, decisions, risks, and configuration-sensitive system information.
  • Collaborate with Product, Research, radio frequency, electrical, FPGA, software, mechanical, PCB, test, manufacturing, suppliers, and key stakeholders to deliver mission-critical solutions.
  • Turn prototype results into clear architecture decisions, reusable system guidance, and transition packages that product-development teams can execute.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in advanced technology development, pathfinding, applied research, rapid prototyping, or technology readiness maturation.
  • Experience with radar, phased arrays, radio frequency systems, signal processing, advanced sensing, autonomy, or other high-reliability and mission-critical products.
  • Experience with radar calibration, high-speed data interfaces, compute architectures, high-power subsystems, tiled apertures, or compact electronics packaging.
  • Experience using MATLAB, Simulink, Python, or equivalent tools for system analysis, budgets, modeling, test-data evaluation, or trade studies.
  • Familiarity with reliability, safety, electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility, environmental qualification, cybersecurity, design for manufacturing and assembly, supportability, and product assurance.

About the Company

Echodyne

Develops solid-state metamaterials electronically scanned radar

Echodyne builds compact, high-performance radar systems for defense, security, and autonomous applications. Its EchoGuard and EchoShield combine metamaterial-based electronically scanned radar with software to detect and track objects for surveillance, counter-UAS, border security, and autonomous sensing. The MESA technology steers beams electronically without costly phase shifters, delivering solid-state, low SWaP-C radars that are easy to deploy and integrate with customers' systems. By expanding manufacturing capacity and product lines, Echodyne aims to make advanced radar accessible to a wide range of commercial, government, and defense customers.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Acquired
Total funding
$199M
Headquarters
Kirkland, WA
Founded
2014

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