Mission Systems Engineer

Translate mission workflows, constraints, and technical systems into executable product and engineering plans.

• Help teams build systems that match real-world constraints.
• Support discovery, testing, deployment, and adoption.

• Analyze mission workflows, system interfaces, constraints, and success criteria.
• Partner with engineering teams on requirements, architecture, validation, and delivery.
• Support demos, user feedback sessions, and operational readiness.
• Document decisions, risks, assumptions, and integration needs.

• 4+ years of systems engineering, defense technology, mission operations, or technical delivery experience.
• Ability to work across users, engineers, data teams, and leadership.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Must be capable of obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret security clearance.
• Comfort working with ambiguous mission, data, and engineering problems.
• Strong written communication and ability to explain technical decisions to technical and non-technical teams.

• AWS experience is a plus, especially secure cloud, Gov Cloud, serverless, data, or AI services.
• AI, machine learning, LLM, agentic workflow, or decision intelligence experience is a plus.
• Experience in defense, government, manufacturing, aerospace, logistics, or other mission-critical environments is a plus.

Anautics evaluates candidates based on role-relevant skills, judgment, ownership, and ability to work in high-trust environments. AWS and AI experience are strong pluses across this hiring plan.