Systems Engineer, Strategic Defense
Huntsville · Irvine, CA (OC-62) · USD 126,000-167,000 · 4-6 years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 4-6 years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Huntsville · Irvine, CA (OC-62)
- Salary
- USD 126,000-167,000 · Base salary
About the role
- We are looking to hire a Systems Engineer to join our rapid growing team in Irvine, CA or Huntsville, AL.
- This role will focus on the Guam Defense System Battle Manager product and help create a new strategic business line within Air Defense.
- Each deployment often comes with a unique combination of hardware and software products, and you will own the technical success of the end-to-end solution we ship.
Responsibilities
- Lead the capture of requirements and capabilities for system integrations
- Lead the integration of emerging capabilities, bringing new products into the family of systems
- Lead requirements decomposition across cross-functional teams, defining success in the face of ambiguity
- Responsible for scoping ideal system laydown, scrutinizing system performance, and ensuring the deployed system is meeting customer requirements
- Responsible for making tradeoffs across capability, timelines, risk, cost, and other factors to deliver an outcome
- Own systems end to end with the ability to identify and solve problems between the seams and push through to reach an ultimate outcome
Requirements
- 4-6 years of hardware and software systems engineering experience
- Degree in Engineering, Physics, Robotics, Mathematics, or a related field
- Demonstrated use of model based systems engineering across program lifecycle
- Experience with tools such as: JAMA, Cameo, Matlab, Simulink, AFSIM
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, C/C++, or Rust for analysis and simulation
- Skilled in Statistics, AI/ML, MBSE, requirements construction, management and traceability, test and evaluation, and verification and validation
- Demonstrated proficiency in the application of engineering standards into engineering processes or requirements
- Demonstrated experience collaborating across cross-functional teams
- Comfortable working with ambiguity, evolving priorities, and challenging problems
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with mid and upper tier Air Defense Command and Control programs
- Familiarity with Tactical Data Links (TDL), Link 16, including design, integration, and test
- Familiarity with Linux OS. Comfortable obtaining data from software platforms using command-line tools
- Previous experience in a defense, naval, or aerospace environment
- Experience with any of the following: robotics, autonomous systems, radar, optics, computer vision, wireless communication, software defined radios, networking
- Exceptional proficiency with Python and/or MATLAB for data parsing and data visualization
- Experience working with mid and upper tier Air Defense systems in the Army, Navy, Air Force or the Missile Defense Agency
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supporting health, recovery, and whatever comes next
Workplace
- Up to 75% travel to customer sites.
Skills
- JAMA
- Cameo
- Matlab
- Simulink
- AFSIM
- Python
- C/C++
- Rust
- Statistics
- AI/ML
- MBSE
- Linux OS
Show all 14 skills
- Tactical Data Links
- Link 16
