Senior Systems Engineer

Salary: $100,000 - 150,000 per year Requirements:

• Bachelors or masters degree in electrical engineering, systems engineering, or a related field, with 10 or more years of experience
• Experience with networking and routing protocols
• Experience with Linux operating systems and networking stacks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, including experience in algorithm design
• Hands-on hardware and software troubleshooting skills
• Proficiency with C/C++ or a scripting language
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel
• Ability to obtain a security clearance; U.S. government requirements for clearance include U.S. citizenship
• Preferred: Experience with tactical MANET radios and HAIPE encryptors
• Preferred: Technical and integration experience, with an understanding of developing battlespace CONOPS and mission-oriented solutions

• Collaborate with system architects to develop and assess networking algorithms for tactical networking environments
• Model and simulate algorithm performance, and support software development for a virtual routing environment tool
• Create system requirements, test procedures, and automated tools for assessing system performance
• Evaluate tactical networking radios and communications systems, characterizing their designs and optimizing integration with our products
• Rapidly prototype and integrate tactical radios and communications systems into existing networking designs
• Support system integration, verification, validation, and effectiveness analysis
• Assist with customer and Warfighter demonstrations and test events

• Hardware
• Support
• Linux
• Security

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We develop advanced avionics, ground hardware, and software solutions for digital interoperability, survivability, situational awareness, and data collection, serving customers across the defense industry. This full-time senior systems engineer role focuses on tactical networking and is based at our facility in Des Plaines, Illinois. We offer an estimated salary range of $100,000–$150,000, with offers tailored to relevant factors such as experience, education, skills, location, and organizational needs. Our benefits include paid time off, medical, vision and dental coverage, a health savings account, a 401(k), paid overtime, flexible scheduling, travel opportunities, tuition reimbursement, and a casual work environment. Kranze Technology Solutions is part of SPX Technologies Communication Technologies platform within the Detection & Measurement business segment. We support the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and Special Operations Command through product development, systems integration, testing and evaluation, modeling and simulation, and engineering services. Our small teams tackle complex technical challenges in close collaboration with defense customers. We are an equal opportunity employer.

last updated 40 week of 2026