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Mission Systems Lead

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $292,000–$292,000🗓 2026-07-29 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead technical development and integration of mission systems for a new maritime platform, from concept through delivery, ensuring alignment with strategic direction and customer requirements.

Role type

Senior technical lead for mission systems integration (maritime defense)

Builds

Fully operational mission systems for maritime platforms, including software stacks, hardware selection, compute, storage, and network architecture.

Domain

Defense technology, autonomous maritime systems, military mission sets

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

military mission system delivery, distributed software platform architecture, modeling and simulation, high assurance safety critical software development, unit test and regression testing, autonomous weapons systems knowledge, system engineering concepts, vehicle management systems familiarity

Preferred skills

leadership in high-performing tech organizations, systems/application programming (algorithms, data structures, concurrency), remote software troubleshooting, holistic software stack ownership, mentoring senior engineers, operational experience with autonomous maritime systems

Technologies

Lattice OS, vehicle management systems, simulation fixtures, hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop

Responsibilities

Own customer success through design and delivery of mission systems; partner with Vehicle Software team on interfacing requirements; drive architecture selection and design; contribute to company-wide roadmap; lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams; drive development processes and lifecycle testing; support vehicle manufacturing and deployment; mentor senior software engineers.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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