Senior Systems Engineer – Propulsion & Flight Systems Lead

Jobtailor; Alabama; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a seasoned Systems Engineer to lead design, development, and integration across the full lifecycle of space-qualified engines and mécanical systems. You will own system requirements, drive verification, and coordinate with customers and internal teams to ensure safe, reliable operation.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and disciplined process improvement in a safety-critical environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in Engineering or another technical field.
• 5+ years system development/integration experience with complex mechanical systems.
• Experience with safety-critical environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and coordinate across disciplines.
• Experience with systems engineering tools such as DOORS, Jama, Jira, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead system design and development at all stages of the development lifecycle including requirements capture and flow-down, preliminary design, critical design, product realization, design verification testing, system integration, qualification, certification, and delivery.
• Develop, manage, and allocate system level requirements.
• Lead systems engineering activities and drive system engineering practices.
• Manage, organize, and own gated reviews.
• Develop and mature Concept of Operations documents.
• Ownership of System Safety data for our engines.
• Drive technical accuracy and completeness of verification records (test plans, test reports, analysis reports, inspection reports, etc.).
• Ensure all aspects of the system are working to the correct configuration including drawings, interface control documents, and the design description documents.
• Ensure completeness of the life cycle for operability, reliability, maintainability.
• Negotiate between multiple interests to ensure the larger system as a whole is optimized.
• Daily launch vehicle customer and test site coordination, create interface definition and design specification documents from engineering documentation.
• Respond to all facets of customer’s vehicle operability questions during all life-cycle phases of design, development, test and launch.
• Effectively communicate development status, risks, and challenges.
• Track, evaluate and report on system metrics.
• Lead engine level trade studies.
• Drive process improvement across systems engineering practices.
• Lead system safety and hazards analyses, failure modes and reliability analyses.
• Management of internal/external engine interfaces.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Team leadership

Communication

Risk management

Education

B.S. in Engineering

Tools

DOORS

Jama

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a seasoned Systems Engineer to lead design, development, and integration across the full lifecycle of space-qualified engines and mécanical systems. You will own system requirements, drive verification, and coordinate with customers and internal teams to ensure safe, reliable operation.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and disciplined process improvement in a safety-critical environment.