Flight Vehicle Systems Lead — Defense Engineering

Castelion; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Paid time off

Holidays

Health benefits

Parental leave

Fitness stipend

EV charging onsite

Catered meals

Food during peak periods

Stocked kitchen

Job summary

Castelion is a defense systems company seeking a senior engineer to guide system-level trades for Blackbeard development milestones. You will own vehicle-level configurations, drive cross-disciplinary execution, and ensure readiness across vehicle subsystems, including propulsion, avionics, GNC, software, payload, and ground systems.

The role requires leading readiness reviews, managing technical data deliveries, and rapidly incorporating lessons learned from tests into configurations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace, electrical engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on hardware design, testing and support.
• Demonstrated project management and communication across 100+ organizations.
• Ability to evaluate system-level risk and develop test strategies approved by customer.

Responsibilities

• Own objectives, success criteria, schedule and vehicle configuration for each development test.
• Own integrated technical configuration for each development vehicle and mission.
• Identify and resolve cross-functional issues, interface conflicts and gaps.
• Track vehicle technical maturity, schedule risks, and readiness to leadership.
• Lead vehicle and mission readiness reviews and drive closure of actions.
• Coordinate preflight engineering verification across disciplines.

Skills

Hardware design

Testing

Project management

Communication

System-level risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Castelion is a defense systems company seeking a senior engineer to guide system-level trades for Blackbeard development milestones. You will own vehicle-level configurations, drive cross-disciplinary execution, and ensure readiness across vehicle subsystems, including propulsion, avionics, GNC, software, payload, and ground systems.

The role requires leading readiness reviews, managing technical data deliveries, and rapidly incorporating lessons learned from tests into configurations.