Staff Hardware Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• · Support a small cross-functional hardware development team, establishing technical priorities and driving execution from concept through production
• · Support hardware systems engineering from early product definition through architecture, requirements, qualification, production, and lifecycle support
• · Define system architectures and allocate functionality across mechanical, electrical, RF, software, and test subsystems
• · Define and coordinate internal and external interfaces
• · Support system-level trade studies balancing performance, SWaP-C, manufacturability, reliability, schedule, and cost
• · Make timely technical decisions under ambiguity while balancing mission performance, risk, schedule, manufacturability, and cost
• · Develop new product concepts and support proposals and technology demonstrations
• · Identify technical risks early and drive practical mitigation strategies
• · Support technical reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR
• · Personally contribute to critical engineering work as needed to ensure team and program success
• · Collaborate with manufacturing, suppliers, and test teams to mature designs into production
• What Success Looks Like:
• · Mission needs and product concepts become executable engineering solutions
• · Cross-functional teams remain aligned around a coherent system architecture
• · Products perform reliably in demonstrations and operational deployments
• · Technical risks are resolved before they become program risks
• Minimum Requirements:
• · Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field with 8+ years of relevant engineering experience
• · Background in space systems, missile systems, avionics, radar, EW, or defense electronics
• · Strong understanding of system architecture, interface definition, and engineering tradeoffs
• · Proven technical leadership within multidisciplinary engineering teams delivering complex hardware products in a fast-paced development environment
• · Experience performing system architecture trade studies and allocating system and hardware requirements