Senior System Engineer

Eolas Solutions; Canberra; On-site; AUD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Eolas Solutions is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join a Defence program in Canberra. This permanent, full-time role requires NV1/NV2 clearance and offers a salary range $160,000–$200,000 plus super.

The successful candidate will lead complex engineering documentation and risk management across design, integration, and verification. You will mentor less senior engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and engage with governance forums and system reviews.

Qualifications

• Strong systems engineering background within Defence acquisition or capability development programs.
• Experience mentoring less senior engineers and building technical capability in a team.
• Australian citizen with a current NV1 or NV2 clearance.
• Chartered Professional Engineer status is not required—eligibility to attain CPEng is supported by the company.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of complex engineering documentation and provide engineering advice and assurance across design, integration, and verification activities.
• Identify, assess, and manage technical risk, and support governance and delegations frameworks.
• Represent engineering interests in technical forums, working groups, and formal system reviews with contractors and stakeholders.
• Mentor and develop engineers earlier in their career, and help grow our talent pipeline more broadly.
• Collaborate across discipline streams to keep engineering inputs aligned with program objectives.

Skills

Systems engineering

Defence programs

Mentoring

Documentation review

CPEng eligibility

NV1/NV2 clearance

Canberra-based

Job description

About the job

Senior Systems Engineer | Defence | Canberra

Canberra • Permanent Full-time • NV1/NV2 • $160,000–$200,000 TRP (inc. super)

In less than two years, Eolas has grown from 1 to 23+ Defence and national security professionals. Twelve joined through LinkedIn. We're currently looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join a high-impact Defence program.

For the right candidate, this would be a backfill role on an existing engagement (subject to client approval) — and we're also actively looking to fill several other interesting Defence roles with our clients across Canberra. If you're a strong Systems Engineer, we want to talk to you regardless of which of these ends up being the right fit — we'll work that out together.

What Makes You Right for This

• Strong systems engineering background within Defence acquisition or capability development programs
• Comfortable operating in complex, multi-contract, system-of-systems environments
• Confident reviewing and endorsing complex engineering documentation — specifications, design packages, technical risk registers
• Experience mentoring less senior engineers and building technical capability in a team
• Chartered Professional Engineer status is not required — eligibility to attain CPEng is though. Eolas supports and mentors staff through their CPEng application if that's useful to you
• Australian citizen with a current NV1 or NV2 clearance
• Canberra-based, primarily office-based (Campbell Park Offices) with limited work from home flexibility

Please note: due to ITAR-related obligations on some of our programs, not all dual-citizenship combinations will be workable for every role. We're happy to talk through what this means for you in a confidential conversation.

What You'll Actually Do

• Lead development of complex engineering documentation and provide engineering advice and assurance across design, integration, and verification activities
• Identify, assess, and manage technical risk, and support governance and delegations frameworks
• Represent engineering interests in technical forums, working groups, and formal system reviews with contractors and stakeholders
• Mentor and develop engineers earlier in their career, and help grow our talent pipeline more broadly
• Collaborate across discipline streams to keep engineering inputs aligned with program objectives

Why Eolas

At Eolas, you won't be rewarded for looking busy. You'll be recognised for what you deliver and how you deliver it. We're also serious about building a genuinely fun, safe and welcoming home for our consultants — not just a talent supply chain. We're developing a formal Career Management Framework to support that, and we'll be sharing more on it soon. Three values shape our work:

• Own It. See a problem, fix it. Take responsibility, follow through, and make things better.
• Focus on What Matters. Clear the noise. If something doesn't move the needle, challenge it or change it.
• Create Together. Respect what the client knows, bring what you know, and shape the solution together.

Ready to Join a Team Doing Things Differently? We're not looking for contractors, we're looking for full-time, permanent staff. People who see what needs doing, take responsibility, and get results.

Eolas Solutions. Less noise. More clarity. Real outcomes.

We actively encourage applications from veterans and professionals from diverse backgrounds.