Senior Aerospace Systems Engineer - Space Defense (Onsite)

True Anomaly, Inc.; Panama City Beach (FL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental

Vision

PTO

401K

Parental Leave

Job summary

True Anomaly, Inc. seeks Senior Aerospace Systems Engineers to define, analyze, and ensure the successful implementation of mission and subsystem requirements across space systems.

You will support traceability, verification, and risk assessment while collaborating with cross‑functional teams to ensure mission success and readiness. The role emphasizes leadership across multiple subsystems (C&DH, Communications, Power, Flight Software, Guidance, Propulsion, Structures, Thermal).

Qualifications

• 8+ years full lifecycle experience leading a major subsystem through design, test, and verification.
• Strong technical leadership and systems architecture experience.
• Proven leadership in design, analysis, and verification on a major aerospace program.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with ability to lead technical trades.
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical teams and coordinate across hardware and software boundaries.
• U.S. Citizen and eligible for DoD TS/SCI or TS/SAP government clearance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and internal teams to define and document mission objectives, system requirements, and operational concepts.
• Translate customer and mission needs into actionable engineering solutions, ensuring alignment with technical and programmatic constraints.
• Lead system trade studies, performance evaluations, and feasibility assessments to ensure optimal system architecture design.
• Prepare detailed technical reports, presentations, and documentation for internal and external stakeholders, including government agencies and customers.
• Develop system-level integration and verification plans, conducting end-to-end testing to validate mission requirements.
• Coordinate with subsystem teams to troubleshoot and resolve integration challenges, ensuring mission readiness.
• Support mission operations teams during testing and real-time mission execution.
• Conduct system performance analysis, including reliability, safety, and mission effectiveness, under various environmental conditions.
• Assess mission success criteria and operational risks and propose mitigation strategies.
• Identify and analyze mission risks related to complex space missions, including collision risks and operational uncertainties.
• Develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans for safe and reliable mission execution.

Skills

Systems engineering lead

Technical leadership

Design verification

Cross-functional teamwork

Risk analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Tools

MBSE

Job description

True Anomaly, Inc. seeks Senior Aerospace Systems Engineers to define, analyze, and ensure the successful implementation of mission and subsystem requirements across space systems.

You will support traceability, verification, and risk assessment while collaborating with cross‑functional teams to ensure mission success and readiness. The role emphasizes leadership across multiple subsystems (C&DH, Communications, Power, Flight Software, Guidance, Propulsion, Structures, Thermal).