Senior Solution Engineer (ISR/C-UAS)

Who we are:

For more than 70 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.

Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCI Agency, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.

About the job:

Based in The Hague, Netherlands you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will join The Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Centre (JISRC). JISRC’s vision is to assure information superiority for NATO. Its Mission is to deliver, support and protect valued ISR capabilities, expertise and services and to maximise operational effectiveness for NATO through a wide range of coherent JISR services, supported by well-trained, highly knowledgeable and uniquely experienced staff, in four key JISR domains: Intelligence Applications, Operational ISR Support, Electronic Warfare/Surveillance Services and Geospatial/Meteorological/Oceanographic Information Services. JISRC is responsible for the full lifecycle of its services.

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Senior Solution Engineer (ISR/C-UAS) who will take on the following roles and responsibilities:

• Translate capability requirements into implementation plans, designs and development activities;
• Select, design and implement solutions to requirements in the ISR/C-UAS application domain;
• Provide scientific/engineering support to projects within the ISR/C-UAS domain;
• Define and manage scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex ISR/C-UAS initiatives;
• Contribute to C-UAS systems modelling, concept development, research, experimentation, testing, prototyping and test bedding, laboratory trials and demonstrations, verifications and validations activities, support to systems acquisition, and relevant military exercises and operations;
• Act as a technical contact point between the organisation and suppliers concerning contract management.

For a full list of duties, please review the job description on the NCI Agency career site.

About you:

The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:

• A minimum requirement of a Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 3 years post-related experience. Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate’s particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency, that is, at least 10 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post;
• Recent extensive experience (at least three years) in the C-UAS area at NATO or a comparable multinational or national position. This experience should include working with C-UAS capabilities, such as radars, electro optical and infrared (EO/IR) cameras, radiofrequency passive detection and direction finding sensors and jamming;
• 3 years of experience and ability to demonstrate familiarity with electromagnetics, radiofrequencies and signal processing technologies and testing and verification of these systems;
• Experience with planning and execution of ISR and C-UAS large exercises;
• Experience (within the past five years) in the development of policies, standard operating procedures, and/or capturing user requirements related to capability development;
• Experience in software define radio (SDR) technologies and knowledge of programming languages such as Python, Matlab and C;
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

What we offer:

• Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history;
• 3 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and children’s allowances;
• Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave;
• Excellent private health insurance scheme;
• Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays;
• NATO Pension Scheme;
• Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more.

To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website. 

The NCI Agency prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability. 

Additional details on the conditions of application can be found via the NCI Agency career site.