CareerPlan

Team Hornet Systems Engineer

Ridgecrest, CA, USFull-time$70k–$91k2026-10-10 → 2026-11-09
Citizens onlySecurity clearance required

Core

Systems Engineer supporting requirements development, subsystem integration, interface definition, test planning/execution, and anomaly resolution for the F/A-18 A-D Hornet aircraft.

Role type

Senior IC systems engineer (defense/aerospace)

Builds

F/A-18 A-D aircraft sustainment and modernization systems

Domain

Defense / Aerospace / Avionics

Required skills

Systems engineering principles, requirements decomposition and traceability, subsystem architecture and design, test planning and execution, technical documentation, anomaly analysis and resolution, interface definition, coordination with multidisciplinary teams

Preferred skills

F/A-18 aircraft support, military/Naval aviation experience, Department of War/NAVAIR/defense contractor background, configuration management, discrepancy reporting, root-cause analysis, requirements-management tools, systems-modeling tools, laboratory/ground/integration/flight-test support

Technologies

Requirements-management tools, configuration-management tools, systems-modeling tools

Responsibilities

Decompose system-level requirements into functional, subsystem, interface, and verification requirements; Develop and update systems-engineering documentation; Support requirement implementation and analysis of subsystem data/signals/control exchanges; Develop test and evaluation products (objectives, procedures, expected results); Execute system, subsystem, integration, and regression testing and analyze results; Coordinate integration activities across F/A-18 A-D subsystems; Analyze technical issues and recommend corrective actions; Prepare technical status updates, risk items, and briefing materials; Participate in peer reviews of engineering-baseline documentation.

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC