About the job
About Us:
At Quartermaster AI, we are committed to transforming ocean management into a safe and sustainable endeavor for everyone. Through the innovative application of artificial intelligence and robotics, we are unlocking capabilities that were previously unimaginable. Our advanced distributed oceanic systems empower every vessel to sense, compute, and communicate, significantly enhancing maritime domain awareness for key stakeholders.
Job Description:
We are on the lookout for a Principal Systems Engineer to take charge of the comprehensive technical architecture of our expanding RF capabilities—encompassing everything from antennas to edge processing and cloud integration. In this pivotal role, you will translate product and customer requirements into precise hardware and software specifications, make critical design and architectural choices, and establish interface standards across various subsystems to ensure our systems achieve the desired technical performance while being scalable, adaptable, and reliable.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end system architecture development, covering every aspect from antennas to analog components, software-defined radio (SDR) integration, edge computing hardware, data transport, and cloud interfaces.
- Create and update system design documentation, including system requirements specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), architectural descriptions, and future concept outlines.
- Resolve technical conflicts across multiple functions, ensuring alignment of RF, embedded systems, compute/algorithm, and cloud development efforts with key design and performance goals.
- Establish and refine technical system requirements by assessing trade-offs between commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, modified COTS, and custom solutions.
- Guarantee timing accuracy and synchronization within distributed systems.
- Stay informed about best practices for characterizing and managing system-level time and frequency biases.
- Oversee requirements traceability from customer needs through to verification and validation processes.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks at the system level.
- Define and manage the test and evaluation architecture, ensuring lab test infrastructure is aligned with critical system risks to enhance durability and lifespan.

