CareerPlan

Tracking Architecture Performance Engineer - Senior Member of Technical Staff

El Segundo, CA, USFull-time$110k–$194k2026-10-28 → 2026-11-10
On-site · United StatesUnited States citizens onlySecurity clearance required

Core

Design, develop, and implement tracking algorithms, multi-sensor data fusion, and simulation models to evaluate and optimize performance of space, air, maritime, and ground-based sensor architectures for missile defense and space domain awareness.

Role type

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Modeling & Simulation and Signal & Image Process Engineering

Builds

Architecture evaluations, what-if analyses, and advanced data visualizations for decision-makers

Domain

Defense, Space Domain Awareness (SDA), Missile Warning/Tracking (MW/MT), Multi-INT sensor systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Tracking algorithms, multi-target tracking, tracking performance assessment, multi-sensor data fusion, modeling and simulation, trade-space analysis, C/C++/Python/FORTRAN programming

Preferred skills

Master's or PhD in STEM, leadership experience, government MW/MT/SDA mission architecture knowledge, end-to-end modeling of integrated sensor architectures

Technologies

Radar, EO/IR, SIGINT, GEOINT, Lidar, Bitbucket, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence

Responsibilities

Perform modeling and analysis studies for complex system-of-systems architectures; Evaluate multi-domain architectures; Analyze tracking scenarios across all domains; Perform trade-space analyses; Develop innovative performance metrics and data visualizations; Design and implement tracking and data fusion algorithms; Create cutting-edge simulation approaches and computational tools

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership and mentorship responsibilities