Senior Mission Systems Engineer, EO/IR Seekers
Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 166,000-220,000 · 2+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)
- Salary
- USD 166,000-220,000 · Base salary
About the role
- The Air Dominance and Strike (AD&S) team is seeking a Mission Systems Engineer to develop end-to-end autonomous air systems.
- This role involves the selection, sourcing, and validation of mission-relevant payloads and systems to deliver warfighter outcomes.
- The engineer will drive solutions through modeling, domain expertise, and vendor engagement while managing technical development efforts.
Responsibilities
- Conduct trades for communications, sensing, and effector systems to deliver successful mission outcomes.
- Architect autonomous multi-function, multi-mode payload and system solution concepts, requirements, layout, interfaces, and employment.
- Adapt or derive physics-based models of payload system performance.
- Adapt or develop validated effects-based models for use in mission-level modeling and simulation tools.
- Validate system performance in close cooperation with test and integration engineers.
- Integrate and deliver high-performance systems to customers.
- Manage subcontractors and internal development teams to define subsystem requirements and drive technical performance.
- Communicate results in multiple forms internally and externally.
Requirements
- Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
- Domain expertise in one or more of Radar, EO/IR, RF, and EW systems.
- Experience in physics-based modeling and analysis of system performance.
- 2+ years experience in seeker design and development.
- 2+ years in payload integration and validation.
- 8+ years in relevant Science and/or Engineering related field.
Preferred qualifications
- Knowledge of current and next-generation advanced communications, sensing, and effector systems and platforms.
- Platform-level system trade and integration experience.
- Advanced proficiency in analytical toolchains or languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python, C++, COMSOL, Ansys).
- Advanced communications experience (e.g., secure LPx line-of-sight, beyond line-of-sight, tactical data links).
- Advanced sensing domain experience (e.g., EO/IR, ESM, EA, EW, LIDAR).
- Experience with missile design and integration.
Benefits
- Competitive equity grants
- Comprehensive benefits package
Skills
- Radar
- EO/IR
- RF
- EW
- MATLAB
- Python
- C++
- COMSOL
- Ansys
- LIDAR
- ESM
- EA
