Senior Systems Engineer
City/State: Colorado Springs, CO USA
Type and Schedule: Full-Time, Salary/Exempt.
Annualized Salary Range: $145,000.00 - $230,000.00 commensurate with experience.
About Us:
Caliola is an award-winning woman-owned small business that is improving and protecting our Nation's way of life through secure collaboration and resilient communications. Our engineers, subject matter experts, and veterans are developing and delivering trusted solutions for mission-critical communications. We seek teammates who share our core values:
I3 for C3 - Insight, Innovation, and Integrity for Command, Control, and Communications
These values guide how we work every day. At Caliola, you will find technically challenging, mission-focused work within a flexible and collaborative culture that is uncommon in the defense industry. We offer flexible PTO, subsidized health insurance, 401(k) matching, professional development, and a competitive compensation structure designed to support long-term growth.
Position Description:
Caliola Engineering is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support the reliability, interoperability, and evolution of mission-critical MILSATCOM and Protected MILSATCOM capabilities. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, working across integrated system architectures, and seeing their work directly support mission success. You will support the operations, sustainment, and integration of current and future MILSATCOM, Protected MILSATCOM, and cryptographic systems; identify capability gaps and interoperability challenges; and assess proposed system modifications, enhancements, maintenance activities, and technology insertion plans. You will also provide technical expertise to troubleshoot and resolve highly complex issues involving EHF and Protected MILSATCOM terminals, architectures, baseband systems, cryptographic equipment, ancillary systems, and user interfaces.
Essential Responsibilities:
Self-Leadership and Accountability
- Own assigned MILSATCOM and Protected MILSATCOM systems engineering, technical advisory, sustainment, integration, and interoperability activities through completion.
- Manage priorities and commitments across technical support, testing, analysis, field support, and customer requirements while proactively communicating risks, dependencies, or needed support.
- Serve as a trusted technical resource to the Government Chief Engineer, operational users, system experts, equipment specialists, item managers, and other engineering stakeholders.
- Apply MILSATCOM operational and systems engineering expertise to evaluate issues, develop recommendations, and support senior-level technical and programmatic decisions.
Deliver High-Quality Work
- Provide expert-level MILSATCOM and Protected MILSATCOM systems engineering guidance, technical consultation, sustainment support, and troubleshooting for complex technical issues.
- Support interoperable AEHF capabilities and architectures involving International Partners, NATO, coalition partners, and joint-service stakeholders.
- Analyze system architectures, cryptographic requirements, KeyMat, data flows, hardware and software modifications, command-and-control capabilities, and other technical changes to assess feasibility, interoperability, integration, and operational impact.
- Plan and support systems integration, backwards compatibility testing, verification, validation, and other technical evaluations of new or modified MILSATCOM and Protected MILSATCOM capabilities.
- Develop and maintain functional test assets and cryptographic architectures that align with national guidance and operational requirements.
- Conduct site surveys, technical analyses, engineering assessments, and operational or logistics evaluations, and provide recommendations related to system design, implementation, sustainment, readiness, and site requirements.
- Provide hands-on technical engineering and maintenance support to system operators and maintainers at CONUS and OCONUS locations as required.
- Evaluate new capabilities, terminal designs, allied architectures, equipment, software, cryptographic components, and other system changes to ensure proposed solutions meet technical and operational requirements.
