Principal Engineer - Systems Integration

About KATIM

Key Responsibilities

• Lead system integration for complex defence communications and command-and-control systems.
• Integrate hardware, software, networks, and infrastructure across air, land, maritime, and joint environments.
• Manage system interfaces, interoperability, and interface control documentation.
• Lead integration testing, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and operational readiness activities.
• Support integration trials, field deployments, customer demonstrations, and interoperability testing.
• Work with engineering, cybersecurity, networking, customers, suppliers, and platform teams.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electronics, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 12+ years of systems engineering or systems integration experience in defence, aerospace, security, or mission-critical environments.
• Proven experience integrating complex hardware, software, and distributed systems.
• Experience with platform integration, operational environments, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Key Skills

• Defence communications, C2/C4ISR, tactical data links, and mission systems.
• Networking, TCP/IP, UDP, routing, messaging, and OSI-layer communications.
• System interoperability, interface management, and systems-of-systems integration.
• Network and system test tools such as MATLAB and Simulink.
• Troubleshooting, integration testing, technical problem-solving, and stakeholder management.
• Knowledge of MBSE, simulation environments, secure communications, and defence standards is desirable.