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Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).\nSenior Systems Architect Advanced Technology Development\nROLE OVERVIEW\nEchodyne is seeking a Senior Systems Architect to join the Advanced Technology Development team, define system architectures for rapid radar prototypes and critical technologies, and guide cross-disciplinary technical decisions. \nYou will join a high-performing engineering team that gives senior engineers meaningful ownership and a direct role in shaping future radar products. You will work on prototype and advanced technology development, where you will connect sensing, calibration, compute, power, packaging, software, test, and field-demonstration needs into a coherent system approach. \nThe ideal candidate combines practical systems architecture experience with broad technical judgment, disciplined experimentation, and the ability to create enough structure for fast decisions without slowing prototype execution. \nRESPONSIBILITIES\nDevelop mission needs, concepts of operation, success criteria, and system objectives for radar prototypes and future Advanced Technology Development efforts\nTranslate product goals, use cases, operating environments, research inputs, and business constraints into functional, logical, and physical architectures, requirements, interfaces, and technical budgets\nLead trade studies across radar performance, RF and digital architecture, compute, calibration, power, thermal, mechanical packaging, software, test, cost, schedule, and manufacturability\nDefine prototype experiments, integration plans, and verification evidence needed to retire the highest-impact technical risks before formal product development\nMaintain the technical integrity of architecture baselines, key assumptions, interfaces, margins, decisions, risks, and configuration-sensitive system information\nCollaborate with Product, Research, RF, electrical, FPGA, software, mechanical, PCB, test, manufacturing, suppliers, and key stakeholders to deliver mission-critical solutions\nTurn prototype results into clear architecture decisions, reusable system guidance, and transition packages that product-development teams can execute\nREQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE\nExperience developing system architectures for complex hardware and software products, embedded systems, radar systems, sensing products, aerospace systems, or defense technology\nDemonstrated ability to translate mission needs, customer use cases, and operating environments into system requirements, architectures, interfaces, technical budgets, and verification intent\nExperience defining and managing performance budgets, error budgets, design margins, assumptions, interfaces, and technical baselines\nExperience leading cross-disciplinary trade studies and resolving decisions across RF, electrical, digital, mechanical, software or firmware, test, manufacturing, quality, and supplier constraints\nExperience planning prototypes, experiments, integration events, and verification activities that connect technical risk to objective evidence\nAbility to communicate complex system decisions, risks, and recommendations clearly to engineering and business stakeholders\nDESIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE (Looking for one or more as a complement to the core skills) \nExperience in advanced technology development, pathfinding, applied research, rapid prototyping, or technology readiness maturation\nExperience with radar, phased arrays, RF systems, signal processing, advanced sensing, autonomy, or other high-reliability and mission-critical products\nExperience with radar calibration, high-speed data interfaces, compute architectures, high-power subsystems, tiled apertures, or compact electronics packaging\nExperience using MATLAB, Simulink, Python, or equivalent tools for system analysis, budgets, modeling, test-data evaluation, or trade studies\nFamiliarity with reliability, safety, EMI and EMC, environmental qualification, cybersecurity, design for manufacturing and assembly, supportability, and product assurance\nQUALIFICATION\nBS in Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field and at least 8 years of relevant systems engineering or architecture experience, or equivalent experience\nEligibility to handle export-controlled technical data, including ITAR- and EAR-controlled information\nEchodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations. Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S. \nWHAT WE OFFER\nThis is an exempt role.\nThe expected annual salary range for this role is\n$137,196—$205,382 USD\nIf your skills generally align but not perfectly, please apply anyway. There may be another role that’s a great fit for you!\nWe offer competitive compensation and benefits to our full-time, US-based employees, including:\nRSU (Restricted Stock Units)\nGenerous Benefits:\nFully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you \nChoice of PPO or HDHP/HSA\nVirtual Care - 98Point6\nEmployee Assistance Program\nMental Health coverage through Springhealth & Talkspace (Premera)\nTravel Assistance Insurance\nCompany Paid Life Insurance\nCompany Paid Short & Long Term Disability\nFlexible PTO (exempt) / 15 days per year (non-exempt)\n401(k) match\nPet Insurance\nPrepaid Legal Program\nCommuter Benefits\nPaid Company Holidays\nAll qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6489,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Restricted stock units","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["RF & Wireless Hardware","C4ISR"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-27T18:41:12Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":11,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":205382,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/echodyne-senior-systems-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/echodyne-senior-systems-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-08T15:29:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":32749,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6413},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6413"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fechodyne-senior-systems-architect"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fechodyne-senior-systems-architect"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fechodyne-senior-systems-architect"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/echodyne-senior-systems-architect\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fechodyne-senior-systems-architect"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3351278}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"echodyne.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3351278},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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