Senior System Engineer (Ground Systems Hardware)
Core
Design, integrate, and validate mission-critical ground hardware systems for satellite operations, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
Role type
Senior System Engineer (Hardware)
Builds
Ground systems enabling synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite operations
Domain
Defense, intelligence, security, maritime domain awareness, and Earth observation
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Systems engineering for hardware-based products, virtualization technologies (VMware, vSAN, HCI), networking (switches, VLANs, routing, firewalls), storage systems (Cloudian, Dell, object storage), server hardware platform design, hardware integration and validation, environmental testing, technical specifications and interface management
Preferred skills
Edge compute platforms, on-premise deployments, ruggedized hardware, environmental compliance testing, system modeling tools, requirements management systems, satellite/earth observation/defense systems
Technologies
VMware, vSAN, HCI, Cloudian, Dell
Responsibilities
Design and validate ground hardware systems at system level; Define and maintain hardware specifications, interfaces, and performance requirements; Conduct system modeling and identify design gaps; Own validation and acceptance testing; Collaborate with product, systems, manufacturing, and operations teams; Ensure documentation accuracy and configuration control; Apply expertise in compute, power, and environmental systems; Drive continuous improvement of integration and testing processes
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
