Senior Systems Engineer Verified today

Voyager Space · San Diego, CA · Space Systems · first seen 2026-10-29

Senior Systems Engineer

You will plan, lead, and conduct system requirements development, system design, system integration, qualification, testing and oversight of the entire life cycle of Voyager's Compute, Camera, and Radio portfolios. This role reports to the Systems Engineering Manager and is based in San Diego, CA, fully onsite.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with cross-functional teams of customers, engineers, and program management to develop requirements verification and compliance matrices, ensuring all customer requirements are satisfied with appropriate test methods, reports and artifacts
  • Design and finalize top-level system architecture and block diagrams with partitioning of design and details of subassembly interconnections
  • Define top-level internal and external interfaces and control documents
  • Ensure system architecture is realizable, testable, maintainable, and supportable
  • Perform optimization activities, analysis, and trade studies
  • Support integration, verification, and validation activities
  • Communicate requirement allocations, interface requirements, and design budgets to project and design engineers, including derived requirements at each board boundary
  • Develop system-level verification, qualification, acceptance, and production test flows and test plans
  • Develop coherent product specifications and design documentation
  • Coordinate and provide technical leadership to engineering design teams during compute, camera, and radio product development
  • Adhere to Voyager Technologies Standard Operating Procedures and quality standards

Required Experience

  • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in engineering or systems engineering with minimum 8 years work experience
  • Familiarity with requirements management software (JAMA, DOORS, or similar)
  • Leadership experience with proven 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
  • Experience in software development with emphasis on embedded systems
  • Experience with embedded processors and microcontrollers (ARM, PowerPC, x86, TI-DSP, 8051, etc.) using RTOSes or bare metal
  • Experience with software configuration management and issue tracking tools
  • Experience with agile development
  • Experience with interface buses and protocols used in embedded systems (PCI, RS-422/232, SPI, CameraLink, SpaceWire, Ethernet, CAN, etc.)
  • Experience with programming in C, C++, Python, or other scripting and test languages

Clearance and Citizenship

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. You must be a U.S. Person as defined by export control regulations (ITAR and EAR): a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3).

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary range: $165,000-$205,000 USD. Compensation reflects base salary only and does not include benefits or bonus/incentive. Range may be adjusted in the future based on experience, skills, and location.

Benefits include:

  • Flexible Time Off (FTO)
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with significant company premium contribution
  • Flexible gym memberships with 12,700+ nationwide options
  • 401(k) retirement plan with 50% company match on contributions up to 8%
  • Company wellness programs
  • Additional voluntary benefits and employee support resources