Top System Engineer Jobs

Leads mission operations for complex space systems, defining CONOPS, procedures, playbooks, operational tools, rehearsals, simulations, and mission demonstrations. Provides technical leadership, mentorship, documentation, and cross-functional coordination. Requires extensive engineering and space vehicle operations experience, active SCI or qualifying Top Secret clearance, and willingness to support shift work and occasional travel.

Develop mission concepts of operations, procedures, checklists, and playbooks for space and ground systems. Support operational rehearsals, simulations, mission demonstrations, tool and process improvements, and documentation of system operations. The role requires space or ground system integration, test, or operations experience and active SCI or Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility. Occasional on-console activation and shift work may be required.

Designs and executes comprehensive system tests for wireless communication and sensing products. Develops test plans, automation, logging, and analysis tools; troubleshoots and qualifies hardware, firmware, and software. Maintains laboratory test environments and equipment, hardens existing features, and supports product demonstrations. Collaborates with systems, software, and R&D engineering teams. Requires occasional domestic travel and fully onsite work in West Los Angeles.

Leads system-level testing and integration for satellite ground systems in secure DoD environments. Develops test strategies, plans, procedures, automation, and verification artifacts; tests software, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and mission services. Coordinates vendors, engineering teams, Agile groups, and government stakeholders; manages test schedules, defect triage, root-cause analysis, readiness reviews, and technical reporting. Supports DevSecOps pipelines, configuration management, compliance, operational demonstrations, and certification milestones.

Develop and support spacecraft electrical power subsystems for national security missions. Responsibilities include power budgeting, energy balance, voltage drop and bus stability analyses, hardware testing, production support, software updates, requirements verification, failure review participation, and design for manufacturability. The role supports Blue Ring spacecraft systems across development, integration, testing, and production, including work with solar arrays, batteries, PMAD, wire harnessing, and power distribution components.

Designs and implements complex technical sales solutions, advises customers and sales teams, supports product integration, troubleshoots issues, manages deployment projects, leads technical discussions, delivers demonstrations, documents systems, and mentors peers. The role requires meeting sales targets, managing complex sales, conducting customer visits, and traveling within the market using a reliable vehicle.

Designs and executes high-level integration, feature, functional, and regression testing for autonomous vehicle systems. Develops scalable test plans and automated tests using HIL and SIL assets, analyzes vehicle logs and metrics, investigates failures, supports root-cause analysis, and manages defects through resolution. The role validates autonomy, robotics, and autonomous behaviors against safety, customer, and milestone-readiness requirements.

Supports mission operations for complex space systems by developing concepts of operations, procedures, checklists, playbooks, operational tools, documentation, simulations, rehearsals, and mission demonstrations. The role collaborates with senior and multidisciplinary engineering teams, performs post-event analysis, and may support on-console activation and shift work.

Support cybersecurity governance, compliance, and security hardening for a DoD DevSecOps Azure cloud environment. Manage RMF, A&A, ATO, eMASS artifacts, CMMC, NIST, FedRAMP, and continuous monitoring requirements. Conduct risk assessments, vulnerability testing, audits, remediation, and threat-informed security activities. Collaborate with authorizing officials, government stakeholders, auditors, and engineering teams while developing policies, delivering briefings and training, and guiding secure technical decisions.

Administer and support JBoss EAP middleware environments across development, QA, staging, and production. Configure clustering, failover, web-server integrations, deployments, monitoring, patching, upgrades, and performance tuning. Design and maintain Azure DevOps repositories, pipelines, artifacts, approvals, and release automation. Troubleshoot application and platform issues, analyze logs and dumps, automate operational tasks with Bash, support incident management, perform capacity planning, and maintain technical documentation and deployment procedures.

Develop GPU and Tegra-based hardware products, including schematic creation, PCB layout supervision, system validation, bring-up, testing, debugging, documentation, and circuit optimization. Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to balance product cost, performance, and schedule. Improve design processes and support manufacturing and partner releases.

Develop and test system software drivers and utilities for point-of-sale systems, self-checkout platforms, servers, and peripheral hardware. Troubleshoot technical issues, design system improvements, coordinate offshore development and testing resources, create technical documentation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The role supports Windows and Linux environments across Intel x86 and ARM architectures, including Linux container-based systems.

Develop and test system software drivers, utilities, and middleware interfacing point-of-sale applications with hardware across Windows and Linux systems. Troubleshoot technical issues, modify complex retail systems, coordinate offshore development and testing, document designs and releases, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The role supports POS terminals, servers, and peripherals such as scanners, printers, cash drawers, keyboards, and card readers.

Develop, integrate, test, and validate physics-based aircraft and flight dynamics models for military flight simulators. Analyze aircraft and engineering data, develop simulation software, execute fidelity and qualification testing, troubleshoot model and system discrepancies, and support hardware/software integration and customer acceptance activities. The role requires aerospace engineering knowledge, C/C++ programming, Linux or Windows experience, technical documentation, configuration management, and collaboration across multidisciplinary project teams.

Design, develop, verify, and maintain embedded system software and kernel drivers for NVIDIA Tegra ARM-based SoCs. Responsibilities include pre-silicon modeling, silicon bring-up, core OS enablement, hardware and software collaboration, unit testing, documentation, and system-level debugging. The engineer will also influence hardware architecture through design specifications and support next-generation SoC platforms.

Maintains and monitors MISO’s Energy Management System, including ICCP and SCADA inputs, State Estimator accuracy, and contingency analysis. Trains for real-time power system operations, coordinates transmission reliability activities, collaborates with operators and stakeholders, and supports future operations projects. Requires rotating 12-hour shifts and an engineering degree with at least two years of related experience.

Provides information system security engineering support for FBI systems. Develops and maintains system categorization methodologies based on architecture, risk, hosting environment, data sensitivity, mission, and compliance requirements. Performs security architecture, control, boundary, inheritance, and interconnection analyses; supports RMF activities, reporting, labor mapping, cost recovery, and automated workflows. Collaborates with ISSOs, system owners, architects, and leadership while applying NIST, CNSS, and FBI guidance.

Integrate and test precision optical, laser, mechanical, and electronic subsystems for neutral-atom quantum computers. Perform free-space alignment, fiber coupling, polarization and throughput measurements, interface checkout, fault isolation, safety checks, and configuration documentation. Collaborate with quantum engineers, physicists, controls specialists, and manufacturing engineers to establish system readiness, support first-of-a-kind integrations, preserve approved configurations, and improve repeat-build procedures.

Leads aerospace ground-system architecture and integration activities, including customer-needs analysis, trade studies, technology development, subcontractor leadership, technical proposals, and systems integration direction. Develops architecture documentation, interface definitions, technical baselines, engineering drawings, schematics, bills of materials, and product-release documentation. Coordinates configuration management, lifecycle processes, and cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply-chain, and program teams. Requires an active Secret clearance and up to 25% travel.

Design, develop, test, and optimize system software for next-generation ARM-based SoCs across pre- and post-silicon phases. Analyze architectural bottlenecks, workload performance, and performance-per-watt tradeoffs; develop hardware/software policies and optimization strategies. Lead performance analysis, competitive benchmarking, architecture documentation, and adoption of improvements across NVIDIA software products and open-source SDKs.

Modernize IBM System/36 applications by analyzing legacy programs, converting OCL to CL and RPG II to RPG IV/ILE RPG, remediating code, modernizing screens and menus, and validating functionality through unit, integration, and user acceptance testing. The role also includes troubleshooting, documentation, code reviews, stakeholder collaboration, and knowledge transfer.

The Principal Automation Engineer will design, verify, and validate DeltaV automation systems and support GMP manufacturing operations. Responsibilities include system administration, collaboration with quality and engineering teams, and mentoring others in safety and engineering principles.

Administer and support enterprise JBoss EAP middleware environments across development through production. Manage clustering, failover, deployments, patching, upgrades, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and incident response. Design and maintain Azure DevOps repositories, pipelines, artifacts, approvals, and release automation. Automate operational tasks with Bash scripts, perform capacity planning and root cause analysis, and maintain deployment runbooks and technical documentation while collaborating with infrastructure, security, networking, and application teams.

Conduct dispensing application trials, verify systems meet customer requirements, and prepare detailed test reports. Communicate with customers, sales, R&D, and marketing regarding technical and product issues. Support customer installation, training, and troubleshooting in person or virtually. Work in office and laboratory environments and travel regionally approximately 10%.

Secures and maintains the authorization posture of Navy Platform Information Technology flight control systems. Responsibilities include resolving authorization conditions, authoring and testing contingency plans, mitigating end-of-life risks in air-gapped environments, coordinating STIG implementation with engineering teams, and updating eMASS, VRAM, and risk assessment packages. The role requires DoD cybersecurity engineering experience, NIST and DISA STIG knowledge, relevant certifications, and the ability to obtain or maintain a Secret clearance.