Senior Systems Engineer

Voyager Technologies, Inc. • San Diego, CA

11d • $165,000 - $205,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Systems Engineer plans, leads, and conducts system requirements development, system design, system integration, qualification, testing, and lifecycle oversight for Voyager’s Compute, Camera, and Radio portfolios. The role works with customers, engineers, and program management to ensure customer requirements are met and leads engineering design teams through development of these products.

This position reports to the Systems Engineering Manager and is part of the Engineering department. It is based in San Diego, California, and is fully onsite.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience in a relevant field, in engineering or systems engineering, with at least 8 years of work experience for candidates with a bachelor’s degree.
• Familiarity with requirements management software such as JAMA or DOORS.
• Leadership experience and a demonstrated ability to drive projects and teams to successful completion.
• Experience leading deeply technical product development.
• Experience with flight-software systems.
• Experience with ground-system software and mission operations.
• Software development experience, emphasizing embedded systems.
• Experience with embedded processors or microcontrollers such as ARM, PowerPC, x86, TI-DSP, or 8051, using RTOSes or bare metal.
• Experience with software configuration management and issue-tracking tools.
• Experience with agile development.
• Experience with embedded-system interface buses or protocols such as PCI, RS-422/232, SPI, CameraLink, SpaceWire, Ethernet, or CAN.
• Programming experience, particularly in C, C++, Python, or other scripting and test languages.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance at the level required for the position and applicable government contract; appropriate access eligibility and a need-to-know are also required.
• Must meet U.S. Person and export-authorization eligibility requirements under applicable U.S. export regulations.

Responsibilities

• Develop requirements verification and compliance matrices with cross-functional teams and ensure customer requirements are satisfied through appropriate test methods, reports, and artifacts.
• Design and finalize top-level system architectures and block diagrams, including design partitioning and subassembly interconnections.
• Define top-level internal and external interfaces and control documents.
• Ensure system architectures are realizable, testable, maintainable, and supportable.
• Perform optimization activities, analyses, and trade studies.
• Support integration, verification, and validation.
• Communicate requirement allocations, interface requirements, and design budgets—including derived requirements—to project and design engineers at each board boundary.
• Develop system-level verification, qualification, acceptance, and production test flows and plans.
• Develop product specifications and design documentation.
• Adhere to Voyager Technologies Standard Operating Procedures and quality standards.
• Coordinate and provide technical leadership to engineering design teams developing compute, camera, and radio products.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO).
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families, with a significant portion of premiums covered by the company and many benefits paid at 100% for employees.
• Flexible, affordable gym memberships with access to more than 12,700 locations nationwide, plus free on-demand workout videos before enrollment.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a 50% company match on contributions up to 8%.
• Company wellness programs supporting physical and mental well-being.
• Additional voluntary benefits and employee support resources.
• Competitive total compensation package and a mission-driven work environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior