Senior Undersea Systems Engineer

7 days ago

Newport News, Virginia, United States PURVIS Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

PURVIS Systems is a technology solutions partner that develops, implements and maintains mission-critical solutions for federal and local governments. We've been committed to sustainable growth since our inception in 1973, striving for continual improvement without ever losing sight of our core values: transparency, integrity, and teamwork. We provide the tools and path for each employee to be successful – and in return, ask you to play a pivotal role in helping your peers and clients be successful, providing top-notch teamwork and service. Peace of Mind at PURVIS Systems means knowing your work provides immeasurable value to our team, our partners and our clients.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Undersea Systems Engineer to lead and support technical investigations, design, development, integration, and testing of towed arrays, hull-mounted systems, and sensors including hull-mounted hydrophones, transducers and outboard electronics. This role is critical to delivering mission-ready solutions for naval and maritime defense applications for wet end sonar technologies.

Key Responsibilities
  • Perform technical investigations on issues including degraded performance, damaged equipment, intermittent operations, requirements deviations, training shortfalls, system interfaces, platform integration and component obsolescence.
  • Identify alternative solutions, proposed upgrades and recommended courses of action.
  • Review system specifications, design documents, engineering change proposals, program trouble reports, test reports, operational requirements documents, test plans, engineering drawings and engineering measurement program data.
  • Analysis of test and operational data to assess system effectiveness in accordance with test objectives, key performance parameters, key system attributes and system technical requirements.
  • Perform trend analysis on operational data to identify operational deficiencies, technical issues and risk areas.
  • Test, analyze and evaluate electro-optical sensors and systems to assess system effectiveness.  Develop and evaluate design approaches for optical sensor detection, networking, telemetry, modeling and simulation.
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in Towed, Hull, and Sensor System Engineering.
  • Proven expertise in sonar system design, acoustic signal processing, and underwater sensor integration.
  • Familiarity with naval platform constraints, environmental considerations, and MIL-STD compliance.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

Candidate must be able to obtain a government security clearance to the level of SECRET.

The PURVIS Team values the health and financial security of every employee. This is why we have chosen to offer all full‐time employees a comprehensive package of group benefit programs with enrollment options intended to offer flexibility – in both plan selection and level of coverage to maximize the value of your benefits as cost effective and affordable without compromising quality.

PURVIS values the diversity of our team. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 

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