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This is an on-site position at San Diego headquarters.

Job Summary: Highest level technical role at Cubic. Serves as a company expert in their field internally and as an influencer externally. Provides technical guidance, leadership, and supervision. Performs advanced technical and/or engineering assignments requiring execution of complex technical/engineering principles, procedures and techniques. Drive innovation within the company. Evaluates new technologies, supports Internal Research and Development and design concepts and supports the development of technology insertion plans. The position typically works under limited supervision and direction. Incumbents in this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

What you'll do (Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities):

• Acts as the Cubic expert for the respective technical specialty (Networking and Datalinks)
• Represents Cubic at technical forums, panels, symposia, etc.
• Works to secure funding for key technology advancements with DARPA, AFRL, National Labs, Research Centers, and Other Government Agencies
• Provides expertise to solve complicated technical issues through a disciplined Root Cause approach.
• Diagnoses and solves complex problems, optimizes bottlenecks, rearchitects/redesigns solutions for optimization and/or combines Cubic technology for new solution.
• Works across all CMPS Strategic Business Units (SBUs) as SME for relevant technical areas
• Works with CMPS SBU VP/GM, Product Line Directors, Business Development and Chief Engineers to define product roadmap
• Supports pursuits and proposals by reviewing requirements, proposed technical solutions, timing and risks. Suggests improvements to solution and/or alternative solutions.
• Provide non-advocate review of for all Technical Gate Reviews defined in C-035: SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, SVR, etc., including requirements, decomposition, and distribution as well as final requirement verification for technical products in area of expertise
• Interacts with others throughout industry and academia to stay abreast of changes in technology, competition offerings and customer needs
• Acts as a thought leader within Cubic and for Cubic's customers by looking forward to future market needs and technologies, then communicating relevant ideas via white papers, conference talks, etc.
• Suggests new technologies for Cubic to research or use in upcoming solutions
• Assesses TRL and MRL for proposals and throughout product lifecycles.
• Communicates Technical Advancements through briefings and technical papers
• Develop secure line of sight and beyond line of sight communication architectures
• Develop mesh and distributed network architectures
• Perform analyses and trade studies as necessary to aid in the selection of system concepts
• Support hardware and software design teams to ensure compliance with system architectures
• Support system level test implementation as needed
• Ability to mentor and collaborate with other Engineers
• Support problem solving on projects and programs and provide customer facing technical interface support to business development.
• Create white papers, RFI responses, and RFP responses
• Present to internal management and C-Level executives as needed.
• Present to customers and at conferences and symposia
• Travel up to 25%.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Must have one of the following: PhD and 10+ years of relevant experience in area of expertise or MS Degree and 13+ years of relevant experience in area of expertiseor Bachelor of Science degree and 15+ years of relevant experience in area of expertise.
• Must be a US citizen, eligible for DoD security clearance.
• Industry recognized SME in Networking and Datalink design. Evidence of expertise includes:Papers published in peer-reviewed journals, Patents, Customer recognition e.g. awards, letters of commendation, etc.Employer recognition in the form of major awards.
• Extensive record of delivering working solutions, with specific examples provided.
• Proven ability to effectively interface with executives, customers, subcontractors, vendors and employees at all levels and functions.
• Solid understanding of digital communication and signal processing principles
• Experience with LPI, LPD, and Anti-Jam waveforms.
• Experience with Common Data Link waveforms.
• Ability to perform datalink analysis.
• Strong programming skills (MATLAB, C/C++)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience in wireless propagation and spatial channel models
• Experience in developing link and system level performance simulations
• Experience in RF impairment modeling
• Experience with MAC and PHY design
• Familiarity with DoD communication and networking systems
• Experience in advanced MIMO techniques - theory and implementation
• Experience with event-driven simulation such as (OPNET, QualNet, STK, EMANE or NS-3)
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Must be able to work under project deadlines and associated cost and schedule constraints.

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

Cubic Pay Range:

$190,498 - $269,662 + benefits.

The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.