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Systems Engineer / FSR

Cubic

Company websitecubic.com (Cubic, opens in new tab)

Base salary $123K  to $156K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range USA Home MO

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About this job

Business Unit:

Cubic Defense

Company Details:

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details:

Position Overview

Cubic Digital Intelligence is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as the primary on-site technical representative for a secure data-management and dissemination project supporting a U.S. Government customer.

The successful candidate will coordinate deployment, integration, testing, and operational support while acting as the principal technical liaison between the customer and Cubic’s engineering team. This role requires strong systems-engineering experience, sound technical judgment, and the ability to resolve issues in a complex, mission-focused environment.


Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary on-site technical point of contact for the customer.
  • Coordinate requirements, design, deployment, integration, testing, and operational-readiness activities.
  • Translate customer needs into technical requirements, engineering tasks, and acceptance criteria.
  • Support the deployment and operation of secure, distributed enterprise systems.
  • Coordinate with software, infrastructure, cybersecurity, test, and program-management teams.
  • Troubleshoot application, data, interface, configuration, connectivity, and performance issues.
  • Monitor system health and coordinate timely resolution of technical problems.
  • Support security, configuration-management, documentation, and authorization activities.
  • Maintain technical documentation, issue logs, test records, and status reports.
  • Conduct demonstrations, knowledge-transfer sessions, and technical briefings.
  • Communicate technical risks, dependencies, decisions, and recommendations to customer and company leadership.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
  • At least 10 years of relevant systems-engineering, integration, or technical-operations experience.
  • Experience supporting complex enterprise or distributed systems.
  • Demonstrated success in a customer-facing technical leadership role.
  • Experience with requirements analysis, system integration, testing, troubleshooting, and operational support.
  • Ability to coordinate effectively across multiple technical disciplines and stakeholder organizations.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently at a customer site while collaborating with a distributed engineering team.
  • Active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain SCI.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in a related technical discipline.
  • Experience supporting federal, defense, Intelligence Community, or geospatial programs.
  • Familiarity with secure data-management, discovery, synchronization, or dissemination systems.
  • Experience with containerized or cloud-based enterprise applications.
  • Knowledge of government cybersecurity and system-authorization processes.
  • Relevant systems-engineering or cybersecurity certification.
  • Preferred Qualifications:  Experience administering and troubleshooting Linux-based systems. 


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Cubic Pay Range:

$123,000.00 - $156,000.00 + benefits.

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The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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Worker Type:

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We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law.

Source: Cubic on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($123,000) is above 13% of the 10,331 Software Engineering roles nationwide listed on this site; 27 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $160,285; the middle half runs from $140,000 to $191,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Cubic roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Cubic roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Systems Engineer / FSR (this listing)$123K - $156K
Senior Systems Engineer$123K - $160K
Subcontracts Manager$125K - $139K
Senior Mechanical Engineer$127K - $147K
Program Manager$127K - $167K
Subcontracts Manager$119K - $140K
Manager Subcontracts$119K - $140K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Cubic roles · How to read the bar

Observed changes

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Observed since
Employer-stated posting date
2026-11-02
Where this pay comes from

Location as the employer wrote it: USA Saint Louis MO (Customer Site)

$123,000.00 - $156,000.00 + benefits.

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