Systems Engineer

About the role

Stratolaunch accelerates the development of next-generation aerospace and defense technologies through reusable hypersonic flight testing. Our autonomous, air-launched Talon-A vehicles provide access to operationally realistic flight environments at speeds exceeding Mach 5, delivering critical data that helps customers validate system performance and advance technologies toward deployment. Our team brings together expertise in engineering, manufacturing, and flight operations to solve complex challenges and advance capabilities essential to national security.

Stratolaunch is seeking a level II, Sr- or Staff-level Systems Engineer to support expendable air-launched hypersonic vehicles. An ideal candidate will have experience in full lifecycle systems engineering, including deriving requirements from concepts of operation, developing test and evaluation plans, executing test activities, and verifying vehicle-level compliance. This role involves interfacing with a multi-disciplinary engineering team, program management, and customers.

Essential Responsibilities

- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to derive and document requirements

- Develop efficient and effective test and evaluation plans

- Plan and direct execution of tests for components, subsystems, and vehicles

- Track and monitor requirements compliance through the lifecycle of the program

- Work with system safety and environment health and safety teams to ensure test activities are executed in a manner which minimizes participant, environment, and hardware risk

- Participate in test design reviews, test readiness reviews, test execution, vehicle troubleshooting, and post-test data reviews

- Architect and optimize test data review and analysis methodologies and tools

- Set standards for test planning and documentation and ensure those standards are met

- Coordinate internally with multi-disciplinary team and externally with customers

- Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, and integrity in the fulfillment of commitments

Qualifications and Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications

- Knowledge of, and direct experience with, at least two of these disciplines: Electrical and Avionics Systems, EO/RF Seeker Systems, Energetics Systems, Propulsion Systems, Lethality Modeling, Guidance Navigation and Controls, Aerodynamics, Thermal, and Mechanical Systems

- Experience contributing to the systems engineering content for a major technical review such as System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review or Critical Design Review

- Familiarity with tactical missile system constraints from military launch platforms and logistics chains