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1504 - Software Systems Engineer

Sigma Defense Systems
medical insurance, vision insurance, paid time off, 401(k)
United States, California, San Diego
Oct 20, 2025

Sigma Defense is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team at Patuxent River NAS, MD.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled: Sigma Defense Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Requirements

  • 2-5 years of Systems engineering experience.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen.

Personnel Clearance Level:

  • Candidate must possess or have the ability to obtain an active Secret security clearance or higher.

Education Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or related field of study.

Software/Programs Experience:

  • Windows
  • RHEL
  • Windows
  • Git
  • JIRA
  • Python
  • C++
  • Jenkins
  • Ansible
  • Java

Candidate Differentiators:

  • NAVAIR
  • MPRA
  • P-8A
  • P8 Air SSP
  • P8 Ground SSP

Essential Job Duties (Not All-Inclusive):

  • Support PMA-290 Mission Systems Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL) in support of Combat and Mission Systems.
  • CONOPS analysis, requirements decomposition, software development plan and schedule, and program execution efforts meeting 100% of Fleet expectations.
  • Develop technical capabilities roadmaps.
  • Participate in ECP/TD development, approval, and implementation.
  • Generate engineering and technical analyses, requirements UI designs, change proposals, and other technical documentation as required.
  • Assist in troubleshooting the P-8A Mission Systems and Combat Systems when malfunctions and failures are reported by Fleet customers.
  • Assist in on-going implementation of the Agile Development methodology.
  • Support all efforts to remove impediments of the engineering team to ensure on time delivery and completion of sprints and deliverables (A003).
  • Support the development, design, and architecture recommendations for current and future PEO C4I Software (SW) and hardware (HW) baselines.
  • Support design solutions integrated into any common network/hardware baseline or environment.
  • Utilize an understanding of principles and related technologies using PO directed tools such as Git, PowerShell, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Windows and Linux Operating Systems, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2), Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Services, cloud storage, REST (Representational State Transfer) application programming interfaces (REST APIs), and the Atlassian suite of tools (Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket).

Salary Range: $80,000 - $110,000 annually.

Benefits

  • Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Medical Insurance to Include HSA, FSA, and DFSA Plans
  • Life and AD&D coverage
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • 401(k) Plan with Company Matching Contributions
  • 160 Hours of Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • 12 (Floating) Holidays
  • Educational Assistance
  • Highly Competitive Salary
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