Junior Systems Engineer

Technology Advancement Group (TAG) is a warfighter focused systems integrator in Ashburn, Virginia. We design, build and integrate assured positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) hardware and software for the U.S. Military, U.S. allies, and the companies that build for them. Our products include anti-jam CRPA antennas, horizon-nulling antennas and a miniature M-code GPS receiver. All of them are shipping today, with test data behind them, and our engineers integrate them into the systems our customers already run. We're hiring a Junior Systems Engineer to help take TAG electronics from the first requirement to a fielded product. You'll report to our Lead Systems Engineer and work in a matrixed team, supporting other engineers on specific projects across hardware and software. You'll be part of every phase of the product lifecycle: design, documentation, test, production, deployment and support. Much of the job starts with a customer's technical requirements. You'll work out what they mean for the design and how we'll prove the product meets them. You'll work on-site in Ashburn with a small team. There's no large engineering department to hand work off to here, so you'll see a product from first spec to shipped unit, and you'll give input directly to Engineering, Manufacturing, Configuration Management, Quality and executive leadership. On an average day you'll handle some combination of the following. You'll design, document and test hardware and software components, writing requirements documents, performance specifications, architecture designs, configuration management records and Contract Data Requirements Lists (CDRLs). You'll support test and production by writing assembly procedures, functional test procedures and design verification procedures, and by running system tests. You'll develop and carry out verification and validation plans for system components, along with the test procedures, processes and fixtures needed for quality validation, and you'll keep all of that test documentation under revision control. You'll take part in design reviews and help build prototypes. When a design changes, you'll evaluate the Engineering Change Request (ECR) and work the change into the product and its documents.