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About General Dynamics
General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company offering a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation, ship construction, land combat vehicles, and information technology. It serves customers in the U.S. government, allied governments, and a diverse array of commercial markets.
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As a Lead Systems Architect/Engineer, you will serve as the technical lead for a prototype effort within the engineering team. You will define architecture, integration strategies, and performance objectives while leading trade studies for voice recording, network switching, and security gateways. Your daily work involves directing the development of virtualized voice environments with high availability and managing network segmentation. You will perform technical evaluations of analog gateways, wireless options, and legacy interfaces to ensure solutions meet operational constraints. The role requires expertise in voice-over-IP, private-branch-exchange systems, Linux-based environments, and containerized services using Kubernetes. You will also manage integration testing, produce technical reports for government customers, and mentor engineers. This position addresses complex communication challenges by integrating legacy telephony with modern network technologies in secure, potentially disconnected or resource-constrained environments.
Serve as the technical lead and system architect for prototype development efforts.
Define architecture, integration strategies, performance objectives, and verification approaches for new prototypes.
Lead trade studies to select voice recording, network switching, and security gateway solutions.
Direct the development of virtualized voice and communication environments with high availability and network segmentation.
Plan and lead integration testing in laboratory environments using representative operational scenarios.
Develop test plans, acceptance criteria, risk assessments, and corrective action recommendations.
Produce and defend technical reports covering architecture, cybersecurity, and performance improvements for government customers.
Mentor engineers and establish configuration management for software, network configurations, and design artifacts.
What we're looking for
U.S. citizenship is required.
A Secret security clearance is preferred at time of hire.
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field and 10 years of experience, or a Master's degree and 8 years of experience.
Demonstrated systems engineering experience with architecture, interface definition, requirements decomposition, integration, testing, and risk management.
Practical experience with VoIP, PBX systems, network switching, VLANs, QoS, PoE, and Linux-based or virtualized environments.
Experience architecting containerized services using Kubernetes or similar platforms in disconnected or resource-constrained environments.
Experience integrating legacy analog or telephony interfaces using gateways or interface adapters.
Knowledge of COTS lifecycle management, obsolescence analysis, trade studies, and hardware-refresh strategies.
Ability to write technical reports and brief findings to government customers and leadership.
Experience with naval, maritime, enterprise communications, or mission systems (preferred).
Experience with virtualization, container hardening, and real-time audio performance tuning (preferred).
Familiarity with RMF, security hardening benchmarks, and classified-network cybersecurity engineering (preferred).
Experience working in laboratory, waterfront, or integration-test environments (preferred).
Linux
Virtualization
Kubernetes
Python
Bash
Ansible
IP Networking
Switching
Configuration Management
Network Security
Wireless LAN
Analog Telephony
Integration Testing
Systems Engineering
DOORS
V&V
RF Test Equipment
Signal Analyzers
Signal Generators
Spectrum Analyzers
Test Automation
Embedded Software
Data Analysis
Interface Definition
Systems Architecture
Data Center Infrastructure
Thermal Management
Control Systems
Telemetry
IT Infrastructure
Automation
Block Diagrams
Product Requirements
Reference Designs