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Staff Mission Systems Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $191,000–$191,000🗓 2026-07-18 → 2026-07-31

Core

Designing and validating autonomous air systems and mission payloads for military strike and dominance operations.

Role type

Staff Mission Systems Engineer (Defense/Aerospace)

Builds

End-to-end autonomous air systems and mission-ized payloads for warfighters

Domain

Defense, Aerospace, Autonomous Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Payload integration and validation, Physics-based modeling, System trade analysis, Subcontractor management, Radar/EO/IR/RF/EW domain expertise, Mission-level modeling

Preferred skills

Missile design and integration, Platform-level system integration, Advanced analytical toolchains (MATLAB, Python, C++, COMSOL, Ansys), Tactical data links experience, Advanced sensing (LIDAR, ESM, EA, EW)

Technologies

MATLAB, Python, C++, COMSOL, Ansys

Responsibilities

Conduct trades for communications, sensing, and effector systems; Architect autonomous payload solution concepts; Adapt physics-based models of payload performance; Validate system performance with test engineers; Integrate and deliver high-performance systems; Manage subcontractors and internal teams to drive technical performance

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic oversight

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