Who we are:
Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments. We are a technology firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems.
About This Role
Fuse is seeking a Systems Engineer who thrives in innovative, integration-driven environments and is passionate about reducing uncertainty early in the development lifecycle. This role supports the definition, design, and de-risking of complicated tactical communication systems composed of hardware, software, networking, and RF components.
Key Responsibilities
Define
- Contribute to refinement of mission intent and system scope
- Surface assumptions and risks early in development
- Support decomposition of customer requirements into system-level behaviors
Design
- Support system architecture and interface definition
- Create and maintain system diagrams and interface documentation
- Participate in trade studies and cross-discipline collaboration
De-risk
- Support modeling, simulation, and integration experiments
- Assist in planning and executing integration and test events
- Capture expected vs. observed behavior during testing
- Support hypothesis testing through integration activities and capture expected vs. observed system behavior
- Surface deviations that invalidate architectural assumptions and feed them back into system refinement
Deliver
- Support formal integration and system verification events
- Ensure system behavior aligns with defined mission intent
- Assist in documenting expected vs. observed outcomes
- Participate in root cause analysis and corrective action planning
- Help maintain traceability from mission threads through validation artifacts
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience
- 4–6 years of experience in complicated system development
- Experience integrating hardware, software, and networking systems
- Demonstrated ability to work in iterative, fast-paced development environments where requirements and architecture evolve as uncertainty is reduced
- Experience integrating across hardware, software, networking, and RF domains in environments with shifting technical constraints
- Experience working within a hypothesis-driven development environment where architectural assumptions are progressively tested through integration and test events
- Ability to link detailed execution work to higher-level mission intent and architectural hypotheses
- Active U.S. Secret Clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with SysML, Cameo, or MBSE practices
- Experience supporting modeling and simulation activities
- Experience with requirements management tools (e.g., Jama, DOORS) and maintaining bidirectional traceability between requirements and validation artifacts
- Familiarity with issue tracking and work management tools (e.g., Jira)
- Experience working within digital engineering or model-informed development environments
- Familiarity with agile development environments
More about Fuse:
Founded in 2010, Fuse is a veteran-owned, rapidly growing small business. Our San Diego-based company has earned recognition as an emerging leader in airborne, maritime, and ground networking. Placing the warfighter at the center of every design process, Fuse delivers intuitive, agile, and resilient products that go beyond national security requirements—providing lasting utility and game-changing results. We take pride in our brilliant and talented team as well as our dynamic environment and collaborative, creative, environment. We build cutting-edge hardware and software products that solve complex national security challenges for our warfighters at the tactical edge.
Salary Range: $125,00 - $155,000
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Employee coverage is fully funded; a portion of dependents' coverage is funded as well
- 11 paid Federal Holidays
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Date of hire through second year: 10 days/year (accrued)
- After two years: unlimited
- 40 hours of paid sick leave per year
- 401k with employer matching
- Annual bonuses
- Cell phone reimbursement: $100/month
Top Skills
What We Do
We believe our country’s soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines deserve to be equipped with systems that enhance their competitive advantage against threats and meet rigorous demands of operational environments.
Fuse is a leading supplier of innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions for U.S. defense agencies that improve the sharing of information among warfighters distributed throughout airborne, maritime, and ground environments.
Warfighter-focused design and engineering drives the development of Fuse products and solutions. Technology, mission, and user experience are all considered when designing and developing new products – and this is where Fuse excels. Our proven virtualized network systems, modular tactical edge virtual network, and gateway products go beyond national security requirements, providing lasting utility and game-changing results for our NAVAIR, NAVWAR, USAF, and other U.S. defense clients.
We know that in today’s geopolitically charged environment the fight will not necessarily be won by the side with the most advanced technology or weapons. Instead, it will be won by the side with the most current, accurate, and comprehensible data. Fuse brings together expert engineers and defense operations experts in a collaborative environment to deliver game-changing solutions that enable tactical edge victories in the modern era.
