CareerPlan

SEIT Lead

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)Full-time$191k–$253k2026-10-19 → 2026-11-10
Security clearance required

Core

Lead the Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) function for a maritime autonomous vehicle, owning requirements, interfaces, and the verification plan from subsystem delivery to at-sea operation.

Role type

Senior Systems Engineering Lead (Maritime Autonomous Vehicles)

Builds

Maritime autonomous vehicles (AUVs) for defense and maritime dominance

Domain

Defense / Maritime Robotics / Autonomous Systems

Required skills

Systems engineering, Interface management, Requirements baselining, Verification and validation planning, Integration and test campaign execution, Technical budgeting (mass/volume/power/buoyancy), Design review leadership, MBSE direction

Preferred skills

AUV/UUV/submarine integration, MBSE/SysML ownership, At-sea test campaign leadership, Requirements baseline creation from scratch, Defense or maritime robotics experience

Technologies

MBSE, SysML, ICDs

Responsibilities

Own vehicle requirements baseline from program to subsystem specs; Manage interfaces and change control across subsystem teams; Define and own verification and validation plan; Plan and run integration and test campaigns (bench, SITL, HITL, dockside, at-sea); Own vehicle technical budgets; Chair design reviews; Lead test readiness and anomaly resolution; Direct MBSE systems engineer

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership scope