Principal Systems Engineer

COMPANY BACKGROUND

Epiq Solutions develops cutting-edge software-defined radio (SDR) products and processing solutions to enable spectrum dominance for maritime, land, air, and space domains. With 15 years serving government and commercial enterprise customers and 25K+ devices fielded to date, Epiq Solutions is a trusted partner with a proven heritage of delivering open architecture products in radically small form factors where time-to-market, cost, and performance are critical for mission success.

For more information, visit https://epiqsolutions.com .

JOB SUMMARY

The Principal Systems Engineer provides technical leadership in the development and evolution of SDR platforms. This is an emerging role within the organization and will play a key part in aligning customer needs, product strategy, and technical execution. The position will collaborate closely with product management, customers, and cross-functional engineering teams to define system requirements, guide architectural decisions, and support programs from early concept through prototype delivery and commercialization.

The role requires a broad technical understanding of SDR systems — including RF, hardware, firmware, and software — and the ability to translate customer and product needs into clear system definitions. Depending on project needs, the Principal Systems Engineer may also serve as a technical lead for SDR development efforts with defined scope and delivery timelines.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

- Collaborate with product management to develop and review technical content for proposals, statements of work, and customer engagements.

- Engage with customers and internal product development teams to develop system-level use cases that inform feature scoping and platform direction.

- Define and document system and feature-level requirements for new radio platforms and major capabilities, with primary ownership through initial definition and handoff to execution teams.

- Identify and scope technical trade studies to evaluate architectural, performance, and implementation options.

- Support initial project baseline planning by working with subject matter experts to guide scope, assumptions, and feasibility discussions. Balance customer-specific program needs with long-term SDR platform strategy, identifying opportunities for reuse and commonality.

- Develop high-level system architectures, including block diagrams, interface definitions, and support for critical component selection.

- Work closely with a Technical Lead focused on execution (on some projects, serve as the Technical Lead) responsible for coordinating cross-functional technical efforts.

- Support projects through the full product lifecycle from early concept and customer-funded development through New Product Introduction (NPI), production, fielded support, and eventual product retirement.

- Define system-level acceptance and verification approaches, including how data should be acquired, structured, and reviewed to validate requirements.

- Guide troubleshooting of complex system-level issues, helping teams isolate problems to subsystems through structured analysis and test strategy guidance.

- Provide technical customer support related to integrating SDR products into larger customer systems.

- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of Epiq’s systems engineering processes, templates, and best practices.

- Lead a cross-functional engineering team through SDR hardware and system development efforts.

- Identify technical risks and develop and implement mitigation plans.

- Work with engineering team members to define development tasks, dependencies, and priorities, and assist in removing technical blockers.

- Establish and track internal technical milestones to support delivery against contract and customer commitments.

- Collaborate with project management to ensure projects remain aligned with schedule, budget, and scope.
Requirements
SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

Required

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related discipline

- Minimum 15 years of engineering experience, including at least 5 years in radio or RF hardware development

- Broad technical understanding of SDR systems, including RF front ends, digital hardware, firmware, and software

- Strong verbal and written communication skills

- Demonstrated ability to develop and communicate system architectures, block diagrams, and interface definitions

- Experience performing system-level trade studies, requirements definition, and design reviews

- Working knowledge of Python and basic modeling or data analysis techniques

- Ability to manage multiple efforts simultaneously and prioritize across concurrent projects

- Able to work on US Government Contracts which requires U.S. citizenship
Preferred

- Master’s degree in Engineering

- Experience supporting customer-funded prototype development followed by internal productization or new product introduction efforts

- Familiarity with customer integration challenges involving RF systems and embedded platforms
BENEFITS

- Join a successful and growing company investing in our future success

- Generous vacation policy

- Paid five-week sabbatical every five years

- 401(k) company match at 100% of first 6% of salary

- Health, dental, vision insurance

- Company paid life, short term, and long-term disability insurance

- Employee assistance program

- Wellness reimbursement

- Charitable Giving Company Match

- Competitive salary commensurate with experience and performance

- Fun, laid-back culture and rewarding work!
Epiq Solutions is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.