Systems Engineer - Advanced Technology

Voyager is an innovative defense, national security, and space technology company committed to advancing and delivering transformative, mission‑critical solutions. We tackle the most complex challenges to unlock new frontiers for human progress, fortify national security, and protect critical assets, leading in the race for technological and operational superiority from the ground to space.

The future belongs to those who build it. At Voyager Technologies, we’re building technologies that protect lives, expand frontiers, and prepare us for what’s next. And we’re doing that with people who are wired to solve, build, adapt, and lead. These roles are not for the faint of heart.

You’ll help lay the foundation for humanity's future. Join a culture where innovation thrives, curiosity is rewarded, and impact is real. We’re a company of doers, thinkers, and builders, united by purpose and grounded in reality.

If you want to put your skills to work where the stakes are real and the mission is bigger than any one person, forge the future with Voyager.

The Sr. System Engineer (SE) will be responsible for system level engineering. This position is to plan, lead and conduct system requirements development, system design, system integration, qualification, testing and oversight of the entire life cycle of our space computers portfolio.

The position reports to the Vice President of Technology Development and is part of the Engineering department based in Long Beach, CA. This role can be hybrid.

• Work with a cross‑functional team of Customers, Engineers, and Program Management to develop a requirements verification and compliance matrix and ensure all customer requirements are satisfied with appropriate test methods, reports and artifacts
• Design and finalize top‑level system architecture and block diagrams with partitioning of design and details of subassembly interconnections
• Define top level internal and external interfaces and control documents
• Ensure that the system architecture is realizable, testable, maintainable, supportable
• Perform optimization activities, analysis and trade studies
• Support integration, verification and validation
• Communicate to the Project and Design Engineers their requirement allocations, interface requirements and design budgets, including derived requirements to each board boundary
• Develop system level verification, qualification, acceptance and production test flow and test plans
• Develop coherent product specifications and design documentation
• Adhere to Voyager Technologies Standard Operating Procedures and quality standards
• Coordinate and provide technical leadership to engineering design teams during the development of space computer products.
• Mentor a product team and nurture a customer‑driven product culture.
• Assist with developing a vision and setting the strategic direction of the product which aligns with customer needs, business growth, and overall technology strategy.
• Define and maintain product requirements and roadmaps.
• Drive scalable processes and innovation around the product development cycle.

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience in a relevant field) in engineering or systems engineering with a minimum work experience of:
  • 8+ Years with BS
  • 6+ Years with MS
  • 4+ Years with PhD
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity with requirements management software (e.g. JAMA, DOORS, etc.)
• 5+ years of leadership experience and proven ability to lead projects to completion
• Experience leading deeply technical product development
• Experience with flight‑software systems
• Experience with ground‑system software and mission operations
• Experience in software development with emphasis on embedded systems
• Experience with embedded processors/microcontrollers such as ARM, Power
  
  PC, x86, TI‑DSP, 8051, etc., using RTOSes or bare metal.
• Experience with embedded Linux including kernel configuration using Yocto or Build Root
• Experience with software configuration management and issue tracking tools
• Experience with agile development
• Experience with interface buses/protocols used in embedded systems such as PCI, USB,…