Senior Systems Engineer – Space & Defense Lead & Mentor

Amro Fabricating Corporation; Mukilteo (WA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Health Savings Account (HSA) with公司贡献

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Company-paid life and AD&D insurance

Short-and long-term disability

Job summary

Karman Space and Defense is a leader in the rapid design, development, and production of critical, next-generation system solutions that align with the U.S. Department of War and its allies’ core mission priorities, delivering Payload & Protection Systems, Interstage Systems, and Propulsion & Launch Systems to more than 80 prime contractors supporting over 130 space and defense programs.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you provide program‑level technical oversight to mature products from concept

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering.
• Typically 6+ years of aerospace engineering and/or defense experience, including 2+ years performing relevant systems engineering work.
• Experience with development of mechanical systems, electronics, cabling, system integration, and qualification testing.
• Mastery of aerospace engineering topics including structural analysis, FEA, physics-based modeling, dynamics and kinematics, materials, design, and test.
• Demonstrated technical leadership for multidisciplinary projects.
• Self-motivated; able to multi-task with minimal oversight; quality-oriented and safety conscious.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and problem-solving; able to see the big picture while focusing on details.
• Excellent communication and customer relationship skills.
• Master’s degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering.

Responsibilities

• Leads program-level technical oversight to ensure products meet all applicable requirements.
• Balances engineering design, analysis, and test activities to produce robust system designs.
• Drives system architecture decisions by modeling system behavior and supporting requirement decomposition.
• Assesses completeness, verifies compliance, and documents system requirements.
• Develops test plans and validation strategies to confirm system performance.
• Leads development of engineering reports and presentations.
• Leads creation of interface control drawings and interface description documents.
• Contributes to company engineering standards, training, and guidelines.
• Mentors, trains, and develops engineers with lesser experience.

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Communication skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Self-motivated

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical/aerospace engineering

Master's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering

Job description

Karman Space and Defense is a leader in the rapid design, development, and production of critical, next-generation system solutions that align with the U.S. Department of War and its allies’ core mission priorities, delivering Payload & Protection Systems, Interstage Systems, and Propulsion & Launch Systems to more than 80 prime contractors supporting over 130 space and defense programs.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you provide program‑level technical oversight to mature products from concept