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You will own the system-level architecture, requirements, and integration strategy across hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems for safety-critical, field-deployed systems. This is a senior technical role requiring someone who can maintain the big picture while diving into subsystem details when necessary.
Key responsibilities:
- Own system-level architecture: define how hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems interact, and document it for the entire team.
- Develop and maintain system requirements, derive subsystem requirements, manage traceability, and own the requirements baseline.
- Lead integration planning: define interfaces, manage dependencies across subsystems, and coordinate bring-up and qualification activities.
- Drive system-level verification and validation, including test planning, execution, anomaly resolution, and sign-off.
- Identify and track system-level risks and develop mitigations before they become fielding problems.
- Serve as technical lead in design reviews, interface control discussions, and customer/government technical meetings.
- Translate operational requirements and customer needs into actionable engineering constraints.
- Work across hardware, software, and mechanical teams to catch integration problems before they reach the test range.
You will be expected to produce clear documentation, make decisive recommendations, and hold technical positions under scrutiny.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of systems engineering experience on defense, aerospace, robotics, or other complex, safety-critical programs.
- Deep understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle: requirements development, architecture, ICD management, V&V planning, and qualification.
- Experience managing interfaces across hardware, embedded software, and mechanical subsystems.
- Comfort reading and authoring engineering documentation: interface control documents, test plans, hazard analyses, and SSPs.
- Proven ability to lead technical coordination across a multidisciplinary team.
- Working English, written and verbal.
Nice to have:
- Experience with DoD acquisition programs, MIL-STD-882 (system safety), or MIL-STD-461/810.
- Background in UAV systems, autonomous systems, or defense payload integration.
- Familiarity with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools (Cameo, Rhapsody, or similar).
- Experience supporting government program reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR) or formal qualification events.
- Active security clearance or eligibility.
