Systems Engineering Manager
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Irvine
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in systems engineering or multidisciplinary engineering, including experience with complex aerospace, defense, or mission-critical systems.
- 2+ years of engineering leadership or management experience.
- Demonstrated experience owning system-level architecture, requirements development, technical performance management, and verification and validation.
- Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, requirements decomposition, functional allocation, interface management, and technical baseline control.
- Experience developing and managing integrated system-level technical budgets, performance measures, and engineering margins.
- Experience with mission analysis, concepts of operations, system-level trade studies, and multidisciplinary engineering analyses.
- Experience developing and executing system-level verification plans, requirements traceability matrices, and compliance assessments.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical reviews, system-level trade studies, and multidisciplinary engineering activities.
- Experience with system integration involving hardware, software, and operational systems.
- Working knowledge of configuration management, technical risk management, reliability, and mission assurance principles.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve complex cross-functional technical challenges.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across engineering organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent technical priorities in a fast-paced development environment.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience developing spacecraft, satellite payloads, ground systems, or integrated space mission architectures.
- Experience with synthetic aperture radar (SAR), remote sensing, satellite communications, or intelligence systems.
- Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), SysML, and digital engineering methodologies.
- Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS, Jama, or equivalent platforms.
- Experience with system modeling and simulation tools such as MATLAB, Simulink, STK, or equivalent platforms.
- Familiarity with NASA, DoD, INCOSE, or aerospace industry systems engineering standards and practices.
- Experience supporting U.S. government, defense, or intelligence community programs.
- Experience with spacecraft integration, qualification, acceptance testing, launch readiness, and commissioning.
- Familiarity with reliability engineering, failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis, and mission assurance practices.
- Experience with spacecraft technical budgets, including mass, power, thermal, communications link, pointing, and data budgets.
- Experience establishing or scaling systems engineering capabilities within a growing engineering organization.
- Familiarity with Agile development environments and tailoring systems engineering practices to iterative hardware and software development.
Full description
Third-party recruiters: Please do not contact us about this role.Systems Engineering Manager
At ICEYE, we design, build and operate the largest fleet of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites in the world. Using advanced technology, our constellation collects topographical data about any location on Earth, day or night, through any weather conditions.
Headquartered in Southern California, our customers are society’s heroes – intelligence professionals, warfighters, first responders, and scientific researchers. As a trusted mission partner, the United States and its allies depend on us for critical information when it matters most.
Position Overview
ICEYE US is seeking an experienced Systems Engineering Manager to lead system-level design, requirements development, technical performance management, and verification and validation (V&V) across our space-based intelligence systems and programs.
Reporting directly to the senior executive in charge of Engineering, this position is responsible for establishing and maintaining cohesive system architectures, defining and managing Level 1 (L1) system requirements, and ensuring integrated systems meet their technical requirements and intended mission objectives.
The Systems Engineering Manager will serve as a cross-functional technical authority, working closely with Space Systems, Software Engineering, SAR Engineering, Assembly, Integration & Test (AIT), and Operations to ensure successful integration of complex hardware, software, and operational capabilities throughout the system lifecycle.
This role requires a hands-on technical leader who can balance engineering rigor with rapid execution, establish scalable systems engineering practices, and lead system-level technical activities across multiple concurrent programs.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing systems engineering team, establishing clear technical ownership, engineering discipline, and accountability across multiple concurrent programs.
- System Architecture & Design: Own the development and maintenance of system-level architectures, functional allocations, designs, and technical baselines, ensuring all system elements integrate into a cohesive solution that satisfies mission objectives and customer needs.
- Mission Analysis & CONOPS: Lead the development of mission concepts, concepts of operations (CONOPS), operational scenarios, and mission-level trade studies to establish system capabilities, operational approaches, and technical feasibility.
- System Requirements: Lead the development, management, and configuration control of L1 system requirements, ensuring requirements are clear, measurable, verifiable, and traceable to customer and mission objectives.