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Systems Engineer, Strategic Defense

Irvine, CA (OC-62)💼 Full-time💰 $146,000–$146,000🗓 2026-09-29 → 2026-09-30

Core

Lead systems engineering for the Guam Defense System Battle Manager, integrating hardware and software solutions for Air Defense Command and Control.

Role type

Senior Systems Engineer (Defense/Air Defense)

Builds

Software-defined command and control layers for ballistic, hypersonic, and air-breathing threat interception.

Domain

Defense, Air Defense, Command and Control

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), requirements decomposition, system integration, trade-off analysis, test and evaluation, verification and validation, statistics, AI/ML

Preferred skills

Tactical Data Links (TDL) and Link 16, Linux OS, robotics, autonomous systems, radar, optics, computer vision, software defined radios, networking

Technologies

JAMA, Cameo, Matlab, Simulink, AFSIM, Python, C/C++, Rust

Responsibilities

Capture requirements and capabilities for system integrations; integrate emerging capabilities into the system family; decompose requirements across cross-functional teams; scope ideal system laydown and scrutinize performance; own systems end-to-end to solve problems between seams.

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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