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$150k – $170k per year
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Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 26, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 25, 2026.

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Frequentis is an Austrian technology company headquartered in Vienna that builds communication and information systems for control centres with safety-critical tasks in air traffic management, defence, public safety, maritime and public transport. Founded in 1947 and now stock-listed, it has branches, subsidiaries and representatives in more than 50 countries, its systems run at over 49,000 operator positions in about 150 countries, and it claims around 30 percent of the air traffic control voice system market. Hiring covers systems integration, test automation and VoIP engineers, technical solution managers, domain sales and project managers, mostly at the Vienna headquarters.

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Lead Systems Engineer

Maryland, Columbia FREQUENTIS USA, Inc. From now on

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    Job Introduction

    Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom-tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards. We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever-changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.

    Key Tasks

    • Designs, develops, implements, and validates IT system solutions for networking, computing, and our propriety communications equipment.
    • Leads a teams of project engineers.
    • Defines scope, objectives, deliverables, and delegates project tasking to other system engineers on the team.
    • Collaborates with customers, vendors, and internal teams (e.g., program management, hardware & software development, test engineering, field engineering, production) for total project success.
    • Investigates and applies innovative technologies or methodologies to improve project outcomes, efficiency, or sustainability.
    • Performs risk assessments to identify potential project obstacles and devises mitigation strategies for successful project outcomes.
    • Establishes a system design including conceptual, functional, and physical designs of large scale, distributed systems.
    • Designs, integrates, supports, and debugs complex mission critical systems implemented in high availability architectures.
    • Provides systems and integration engineering for software and hardware systems, subsystems, modules, and application tools.
    • Creates, reviews, and approves technical documentation (e.g., design drawings, design reviews, system layouts, system configuration, build plans/instructions, rollout strategies).
    • Takes ownership of Engineering related deliverables and their technical compliance required by the program.
    • Ensures adherence to industry standards, regulations, and best practices.
    • Manages expectations and resolves project-related issues.

    Key Qualifications

    • BS or MS in Information Technology, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience with IT systems and engineering.
    • 8-10 years’ experience in Systems Engineering integrating, deploying, and supporting integrated hardware and software solutions in the area of networking and communications.
    • Proven experience in leading and mentoring system engineering project teams.
    • Demonstrates the ability to implement and apply best-practice system engineering concepts and appropriate risk management to solutions.
    • Able to learn, select, and integrate new technologies into system solutions.
    • Candidates should meet the requirements for a Public Trust Clearance FAA Suitability determination.

    Our Values

    Frequentis USA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

    Around 2,100 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work-life-balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities. In doing so, we focus on long-term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know-how of our employees stable.

    Benefits

    Benefits:

    We are committed to supporting our mission through the following employee benefits:

    • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
    • Health Savings Accounts
    • Competitive 401(k) Plan with company match and immediate vesting
    • Employee Life Insurance & AD&D
    • Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
    • Employee Assistance Program
    • Generous holidays, including a full week off from December 25 to January 1
    • PTO that scales with tenure and sick leave
    • Company-sponsored team-building activities to boost morale and productivity.
    • Bonus Plan

    TRUST-BASED

    MODERN MENTORING TRAININGS

    WORKING HOURS

    IT-EQUIPMENT PROGRAM

    Benefits

    Benefits:

    We are committed to supporting our mission through the following employee benefits:

    • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
    • Health Savings Accounts
    • Competitive 401(k) Plan with company match and immediate vesting
    • Employee Life Insurance & AD&D
    • Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
    • Employee Assistance Program
    • Generous holidays, including a full week off from December 25 to January 1
    • PTO that scales with tenure and sick leave
    • Company-sponsored team-building activities to boost morale and productivity.
    • Bonus Plan

    TRUST-BASED

    MODERN MENTORING TRAININGS

    WORKING HOURS

    IT-EQUIPMENT PROGRAM

    Salary

    Salary Range: $150,000 to $170,000


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    "Frequentis stands for safe, open & family-friendly corporate culture, we hire for personality & train skills. People & their values matter to us. That's why I'm not only interested in your skills, but also in your personal passion and commitment."

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