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Senior Staff Customer Sustainment Engineer (R5502)

San Diego, California💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-18 → 2026-09-27

Core

Own Tier 1 customer support and incident coordination for Hivemind autonomy software, gathering evidence to resolve mission interruptions and translate operational context into technical problems.

Role type

Senior Staff Customer Sustainment Engineer (Tier 1/2)

Builds

Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft support

Domain

Defense technology / Autonomous systems

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Systems troubleshooting, incident coordination, log and telemetry analysis, network diagnostics, software configuration management, API and licensing support, root cause analysis, technical escalation

Preferred skills

Lab and simulation environment testing, DoD sustainment language familiarity

Technologies

Hivemind software, APIs, V-BAT/X-BAT aircraft systems

Responsibilities

Own Tier 1 customer support and incident coordination from initial report through confirmed resolution; Gather information including mission impact, software version, configuration, deployment state, logs, telemetry, screenshots, network context, and reproduction steps; Troubleshoot Hivemind software, APIs, licensing and provisioning, deployments, configurations, networks, operator workflows, and partner or OEM integrations; Separate product defects from configuration problems, environmental differences, integration issues, training needs, and feature requests; Resolve common technical problems, handle appropriate Tier 2 investigations, and reproduce more complex failures in lab, simulation, or representative test environments; Recognize issues that require Tier 3 or depot-level product repair and give engineering teams concise escalation packages that explain the impact, evidence, likely causes, work already attempted, and expected result.

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