SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Location: San Diego, CA
Clearance Required: Active Secret
Job Type: Full-Time,
Cypher Analytics is 100% employee-owned and proud to support U.S. Navy programs with innovative and mission-critical solutions. As a team of employee-owners, we value RESPECT, collaboration, and technical excellence in everything we do.
We’re hiring a highly skilled Systems Engineer to support complex Navy IT systems—planning, designing, integrating, and leading installation and modernization efforts across Navy networks. This role requires an active Secret Clearance and on-site work at the client location.

SKILLS THAT SET YOU APART

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to brief technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and with cross-functional teams.
• Detail-oriented and highly organized.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project).

• Deliver comprehensive systems engineering support for emerging platform requirements and integration efforts
• Review and develop technical documentation, specifications, and drawings
• Actively participate in Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), teleconferences, and Systems Engineering Technical Review (SETR) events
• Provide expert technical and programmatic guidance across communications systems, cybersecurity, and anti-tamper domains
• Support configuration management, system protection, reliability analysis, COMSEC, TEMPEST, electrical power, manufacturing, safety, and human factors engineering
• Verify and evaluate complex system designs to ensure compliance with functional specifications and mission requirements
• Apply systems engineering principles to assess and comment on specifications, interface control documents, and design reviews
• Support the development and validation of Functional, Allocated, and Product Baselines (FBL, ABL, PBL)
• Review Technical Data Packages for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
• Conduct systems engineering analyses, trade studies, and feasibility assessments.
• Provide input for Analyses of Alternatives (AoA) and other decision-support activities.
• Define, document, and analyze system-of-systems requirements.
• Support external testing activities, including lab, range, and flight test events.
• Define and allocate technical requirements across engineering teams.
• Conduct data analysis to identify risks and support system improvements.
• Apply Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) to deliver in a collaborative, team-based environment.
• Work with enterprise technologies including virtualization, storage, switches, and secure server environments.