Job Location: Warrenton, VA

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Salary: $130,000 – $210,000

Job Description:

BCubed Engineering Corporation is currently hiring highly skilled and motivated Systems Engineers in Warrenton, VA. As a Systems Engineer, you will play a crucial role in bringing our products through the systems engineering life cycle, to include designing, implementing, and maintaining systems that support our customer missions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the seamless integration of hardware, software, and network components to achieve optimal system performance and reliability. The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented problem solver with a strong technical background and a passion for building robust systems.

Responsibilities:

• Lead systems engineering activities to define and document mission‑focused software systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine mission needs, operational scenarios, and system performance objectives.
• Translate mission needs and operational constraints into system requirements and functional architectures.
• Develop system architectures, interface definitions, data flows, and technical models to support design and decision‑making.
• Prepare and deliver System Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), and Critical Design Review (CDR) packages.
• Work closely with software development teams to ensure system-level requirements are implemented accurately and efficiently.
• Identify system risks and dependencies; drive coordinated mitigation actions.
• Support system integration, testing, and verification while engaging with customers to ensure mission readiness and validated performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate capabilities into the system architecture, considering both technical and operational aspects, and align delivery plans with project milestones.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years experience in systems engineering for complex software or mission‑critical systems.
• Experience leading system definition, architecture development, and technical baseline assessments.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering processes, including requirements development, interface definition, verification/validation, and configuration management.
• Hands‑on experience preparing and executing major technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR).
• Familiarity with SATCOM architectures, mission operations, and tasking workflows.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to engage with customers, present technical material, and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
• Active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility (current SSBI).

Highly Desired:

• Master’s degree in engineering or a related field
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with current Counter-Intelligence (CI) Polygraph
• Experience working with Agile software development teams and modern DevSecOps environments.
• Relevant DoD 8570/8140 Cybersecurity Certification, e.g. CompTIA Security+

About the Company

BCubed Engineering Corporation is an employee-owned advanced software and engineering company with offices in Warrenton, VA and Tampa, FL. BCubed Engineering specializes in providing engineering solutions and hardware to meet a variety of unique mission needs to the DoD, IC, and commercial sector, through efficient implementation practices and leveraging cutting-edge COTS technologies. Areas of focus include Digital Signal Processing, Machine Learning, and Cloud/On-Premises computing architectures. Come join us today!

We provide

• Industry leading benefits
• 25% Profit Sharing Plan
• Employer paid STD, LTD, Life, and AD&D
• Employee Ownership
• Company sponsored group medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Individual Benefit Account – This account is used to pay for:
  • Paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums
• Flexible Hours
• Hybrid in-office / work from home environment
• Performance based annual bonus