Top System Engineer Jobs

Own system-level architecture, requirements, interfaces, integration, verification, validation, risk management, and technical coordination across hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems for safety-critical, field-deployed systems.

Supports a mission-critical intelligence system by gathering and decomposing requirements, creating Jira user stories, grooming Agile backlogs, assisting developers, conducting functional testing, presenting features to government customers, and collaborating with UX and engineering teams. The role requires strong stakeholder communication, familiarity with software development concepts, and an understanding of Agile delivery, Jira, Confluence, and cloud-based architecture.

Performs electrical engineering studies for domestic and international projects, including power factor, harmonics, grounding, short-circuit, protective coordination, arc-flash, and power quality analyses. Designs and troubleshoots protective relaying and controls, collaborates with customers, reviews engineering plans, and supports field service shutdown, startup, installation, and maintenance work. The role requires field engagement, customer communication, travel, overtime, and physical activity.

Leads system safety and reliability engineering for space vehicles and in-space systems. Performs hazard, fault tree, functional hazard, FMECA, and reliability analyses; develops mitigation plans; verifies safety requirements; maintains traceability across system artifacts; and coordinates safety products with engineering, program management, and customers. Mentors engineers and helps establish consistent safety processes across programs. Travel may reach 20% of the time.

Deploys, configures, commissions, and supports Ignition-based Energy Management Systems for utility-scale battery storage projects. Integrates EMS with PLCs, PCS, BMS, meters, protection relays, and site networks; configures tags, alarms, historians, dashboards, and control workflows; troubleshoots communications and system issues; supports FATs, SATs, site commissioning, documentation, standardization, and operational handover. Requires hands-on Ignition experience and 30–40% travel to project sites.

Designs, implements, and operates secure, scalable cloud and virtualization environments for a DoD customer. Leads cloud migrations, integrations, testing, architecture, systems engineering, and compliance with DoD cloud policies. Requires expertise in AWS, networking, firewalls, Linux, BGP, VPNs, automation, and AWS GovCloud. Provides technical leadership, client consultation, troubleshooting, mentoring, strategic planning, and occasional after-hours support.

Develop and improve Tower’s internal agentic harness for autonomous coding, model building, long-horizon tasks, memory management, and multi-agent orchestration. Integrate tools and MCP systems, support current LLMs, identify automation opportunities with quantitative teams, and ensure regulatory compliance and production isolation. The role requires software engineering, data science, or ML engineering experience and strong knowledge of agentic frameworks and distributed systems.

Leads electrical integration and troubleshooting for MRI research systems, including power cabinets, cabling, magnet assemblies, RF coils, grounding, shielding, and EMI/EMC issues. Designs and tests electrical and electromechanical subsystems, performs RF measurements, develops verification protocols, supports IEC 60601-1 safety compliance, and maintains bills of materials and engineering documentation. Collaborates with RF, software, systems, and mechanical engineering teams.

Develop and administer the GSC Portal and related enterprise applications across network, application, and database tiers. Build dashboards, alerts, reporting automation, and RPA processes using UiPath. Maintain test, COOP, and production environments; develop, test, document, and deploy web applications; integrate APIs; support AWS and ColdFusion platforms; and provide RMF accreditation support. The role also gathers requirements, manages changes, troubleshoots systems, and maintains application documentation.

Develops and leads systems engineering activities for cyber intelligence and AI/ML capabilities hosted on large-scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, system architecture and design, interface definition, technical documentation, risk and configuration management, systems integration and testing, verification planning, and security and accreditation support. The role provides technical leadership across integrated product teams and coordinates with government stakeholders to ensure system technical integrity.

Supports a high-priority malware analysis modernization program by administering Linux systems and applying systems engineering practices throughout the system life cycle. Responsibilities include infrastructure troubleshooting, virtualization and Kubernetes support, automation with Ansible, systems integration, verification, maintenance, configuration management, risk management, and technical coordination with government stakeholders. The role requires extensive systems engineering experience, TS/SCI clearance with an agency-appropriate polygraph, and the ability to support mission-critical enterprise capabilities.

Manage, deploy, troubleshoot, secure, and maintain mixed UNIX/Linux server environments across data centers and cloud-hosted systems. Responsibilities include hardware and software implementation, performance monitoring, patch management, system hardening, infrastructure upgrades, lifecycle maintenance, service configuration, technical documentation, and utilization reporting. The role supports mission-critical Army IT services and requires DoD cybersecurity compliance expertise, automation experience, and occasional travel to government or data center facilities.

Design and develop high-performance LLM inference systems across distributed serving, runtimes, GPU execution, and performance-critical kernels. Improve latency, throughput, scalability, memory efficiency, and cost through advanced parallelism, decoding, scheduling, batching, KV-cache optimization, quantization, and GPU optimization. Build adaptive inference systems, profile end-to-end workloads, solve complex systems problems independently, and advance research innovations into production through collaboration and open-source contributions.

Oversee and secure DoD cloud environments for an Army client, including configuration, monitoring, alerting, cost control, compliance, and cloud solution architecture. The role requires extensive systems engineering, software engineering, and systems administration experience; cloud-provider certification; Security+ and DoD 8140 certification; a computer science, engineering, or mathematics degree; and a Secret clearance with a favorable SSBI.

Leads next-generation DUV and VUV plasma source development for semiconductor inspection systems. Drives technology evaluation, specifications, experiments, simulations, validation, verification, system error budgets, interfaces, calibrations, diagnostics, and architecture trade-off decisions. Leads cross-functional engineering teams and ensures subsystem and component requirements support overall product goals.

Operate and maintain government-furnished voice and telecommunications systems, including VoIP, VoSIP, ACD, TDM, and Cisco CUCM/PBX platforms. Responsibilities include preventive maintenance, patching, upgrades, performance monitoring, incident troubleshooting, system testing, documentation, and compliance with government and industry standards. The role responds to service tickets, restores voice services, and collaborates with stakeholders. It is remote, supports a federal government program, requires Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship, and involves 10–20% travel.

Provides Tier 2 and Tier 3 sustainment and engineering support for mission-critical AV, video conferencing, and multimedia systems. Responsibilities include diagnosing incidents, implementing configuration changes, performing upgrades and maintenance, managing inventories, documenting systems, coordinating vendor support, supporting classified meetings and live events, and ensuring compliance with security policies. The role includes on-call support and requires work at Buckley Space Force Base.

Design, implement, document, and maintain secure IP networks and systems for DoD connectivity. Administer Windows/Linux hosts, apply DISA STIGs and RMF controls, configure network devices at CCNP level, support transmission and satellite communications, resolve incidents within SLAs, and respond to surge/contingency taskings.

Performs electrical engineering analysis for generation interconnections and electric power system planning. Conducts powerflow and transfer studies, reviews interconnection applications, analyzes simulated and operating data, develops technical solutions, improves study workflows, communicates requirements and findings to stakeholders, and tracks projects through commercial operation.

Design and specify complex subsystems; lead architecture selection and prototyping; perform detailed engineering analysis and testing; support system integration, qualification, troubleshooting, and field support across electrical, mechanical, software and physics disciplines.

Develop platform software for SOCs, including drivers, BSP, CI/CD automation, OS and multimedia driver bring-up, debugging, and system-level triage. Collaborate with OEMs and global engineering teams across the full product lifecycle from pre-silicon modeling through production. Contribute to architecture definition, boot, security, reliability, resiliency, and embedded-system software for Windows and Linux platforms.

Lead systems engineering for NATO business area across the V-Model lifecycle: requirements, use cases, capability development, integration, lab/test planning, verification, and validation. Interface with customers and end users, manage technical baselines, plan and execute schedules, support milestone reviews (SRR/SFR/PDR/CDR/FCA), and lead teams delivering solutions for fielded aircraft and UAV systems.

Designs, implements, secures, and maintains enterprise infrastructure supporting municipal operations. Responsibilities include Windows/Linux servers, storage, virtualization, cloud and hybrid systems, monitoring, security controls, disaster recovery, system integration, automation, Tier III support, infrastructure modernization, and technical documentation.

Leads cybersecurity engineering and DoD Risk Management Framework activities for Navy information systems. Develops RMF artifacts, conducts vulnerability and risk assessments, applies STIGs and SRGs, supports A&A and ATO processes, performs continuous monitoring and compliance testing, and coordinates remediation. Advises government stakeholders, prepares technical documentation and CDRL deliverables, and mentors junior ISSE personnel.

Supports systems engineering across the lifecycle for classified, mission-critical defense systems. Responsibilities include requirements analysis and traceability, technical documentation, systems integration, testing, troubleshooting, sustainment, verification and validation, engineering reviews, and process improvement. The role collaborates with software, infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, and program teams while supporting DoD and national security objectives in a secure operational environment.