# System Engineering Team Leader

Scope: We are looking for an experienced System Engineering Team Leader to manage the system engineering team, driving both technical excellence and people leadership in developing a radio-based drone detection and mitigation system as part of the company's core products. Responsibilities: Lead, mentor, and professionally manage a team of system engineers, fostering technical excellence and personal growth. Lead features and platforms from ideas to releases. Guide and participate in the research and analysis of both proprietary and standard radio communication protocols. Define requirements and guide multi-disciplinary teams (SW, Algorithms, DSP, and FPGA) through implementation and debugging. Analyze and define complex system behaviors, state machines, algorithms, and event-response logic, including radio link budget considerations. Perform independent, hands-on debugging and optimization for system problem-solving using tools like MATLAB, Python, Excel, and other log analysis software. Create and maintain comprehensive system-level documentation. Gain a deep understanding of the full system to guide and support testing and validation teams, helping define methodologies, tools, an

- **Id**: 4022723
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/d-fend-solutions-system-engineering-team-leader>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Ra'anana, Israel
- **Countries**: IL
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T11:10:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T16:05:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2263
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Air Defense, Electronic Warfare, Homeland Security

## Company

- **Id**: 3468
- **Name**: D-Fend Solutions
- **Domain**: dfendsolutions.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/dfendsolutions>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 92
- **Open postings**: 16
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.125
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 88
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T15:46:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 88
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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