System Engineer- LA

About the role

You'll be the connective tissue of our engineering team — owning the system-level architecture, requirements, and integration strategy across hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems. Our products are safety-critical, field-deployed systems built to demanding performance and reliability requirements. This role requires someone who can hold the big picture while diving into subsystem details when it matters.

What you'll do:

• Own the system-level architecture: define how hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems interact, and document it in a way the whole team can build against.
• 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 — test planning, execution, anomaly resolution, and sign-off.
• Identify and track system-level risks; develop mitigations before they become fielding problems.
• Serve as the technical lead in design reviews, interface control discussions, and customer/government technical meetings.
• Translate operational requirements and customer needs into actionable engineering constraints.

Required:

• 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.

How we work: You'll work across the full team — hardware, software, and mechanical — and be the person who catches integration problems before they reach the test range. We expect clear documentation, decisive recommendations, and the ability to hold a technical position under scrutiny.