Unmanned Systems Integration Engineer

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems; Poway (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) in Poway, CA, is seeking a System Integration Project Engineer to advance unmanned aircraft system development from concept through integration, system test, and operation.

You will work with software, systems, electrical, avionics, test, flight operations, and other engineering teams to support integration, investigate behavior, and resolve issues across system boundaries, gaining end-to-end exposure to complex aircraft systems.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelors or masters degree in engineering or a related technical discipline and two or more years of engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes, investigates, troubleshoots, and supports resolution of integration problems involving software, hardware, interfaces, data flows, and system functionality.
• Supports software and system integration activities using laboratory, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, system test, and other integration environments.
• Performs functional testing and troubleshooting using test procedures, diagnostic tools, system logs, network captures, message analyzers, test suites, and other available engineering data.
• Analyzes test results, system logs, network traffic, message exchanges, and interface data to characterize system behavior and communicate findings to engineering teams.
• Coordinates assigned integration activities across disciplines, including software availability, hardware configurations, test assets, dependencies, documentation, and test readiness.
• Identifies and tracks engineering issues, risks, dependencies, and integration blockers and follows actions through resolution.
• Maintains engineering and project information using Jira, Confluence, Jama, schedules, dashboards, and technical documentation.
• Uses modern engineering, automation, and approved AI-enabled tools to improve technical analysis and workflow efficiency.

Skills

Engineering

System integration

Troubleshooting

Team collaboration

Agile practices

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Jama

Job description

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) in Poway, CA, is seeking a System Integration Project Engineer to advance unmanned aircraft system development from concept through integration, system test, and operation.

You will work with software, systems, electrical, avionics, test, flight operations, and other engineering teams to support integration, investigate behavior, and resolve issues across system boundaries, gaining end-to-end exposure to complex aircraft systems.