Systems Engineering Lead

Are you looking for an exciting career with an industry leading turbo machinery/jet engine aerospace engineering company with cutting edge products, unique niche markets, and a highly skilled expert workforce? Then you have come to the right place!

Florida Turbine Technologies (FTT), a Kratos Turbine Technologies company, is a growing world-class turbo machinery company located in beautiful Jupiter, Florida USA, which employs 300+ engineers and technicians with over 4,000 combined years of aero engine (military and commercial), industrial, and space turbo machinery experience. With a deep bench of experience in each discipline, FTT has been growing steadily for 25 years. We specialize in next-generation technologies for aircraft engines, rocket turbopumps, and industrial power equipment, and focus on the development and production of small, affordable, high-performance jet engines for cruise missiles and unmanned aerial systems (UAS).

We provide a one-stop shop with capabilities in design, aerodynamics, performance, heat transfer and secondary flow, rotor dynamics and bearing design, structural analysis and life predictions, manufacturing, testing, and field support. Our Turbine Technologies division also provides engineering services, testing services, and material solutions for military and commercial engines, space propulsion, and industrial power-producing applications.

Additional offices in Derby, UK and Wildau, Germany extend FTTis reputation for engineering excellence to the European marketplace and provide access to a European supply chain and next generation manufacturing capabilities.

Our parent company, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, leverages cross-industry capabilities to deliver innovative, cost‑saving solutions for all its customers.

This role is restricted to U.S. persons (i.e., U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act,i8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) due to access to export-controlled technology. FTT will require proof of status prior to employment.

The Systems Engineering Lead will serve as a leader on advanced turbo machinery and power systems programs. This role is central to translating customer and program needs into clear, verifiable requirements and ensuring those requirements are successfully flowed, integrated, verified, and sustained across the full hardware product lifecycle from concept through qualification, delivery, and fielded support.

As the technical interface between the Program Manager, customer, and multi-discipline engineering teams, this role requires knowledge and understanding of turbo machinery, strong systems engineering judgment, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams through complex design, fabrication, test, and delivery programs under aggressive schedules.

This is a technical leadership role focused on decision-making, risk management, and product integrity. We are looking for someone equally effective leading internal design reviews with discipline engineers and presenting program technical status to government and program stakeholders.

• Serve as the senior technical lead and decision authority across multidisciplinary turbo machinery design teams, ensuring system-level requirements, performance, safety, reliability, maintainability, and integration objectives are met.
• Lead technical decision-making and resolve cross‑discipline design issues by understanding how requirements and design decisions propagate throughout the turbine engine or power system.
• Partner with the Program Manager and customer to interpret top‑level requirements, performance metrics, and operational needs, translating them into actionable engineering direction.
• Lead development and maintenance of system architecture, functional allocation, requirements flowdown, and interface control documentation for internal and external system interfaces.
• Drive requirements verification and validation from definition through qualification and acceptance, including verification methods, success criteria, traceability, compliance, and closure of verification evidence.
• Lead hardware integration activities and resolve mechanical, thermal, fluid, electrical, data, and other system interfaces to achieve system‑level performance and integration objectives.
• Direct technical assessment of design outputs, test plans, qualification and acceptance testing, supplier technical data, and test anomalies; determine technical disposition where required.
• Ensure rigorous application of Safety, Reliability & Maintainability processes and provide technical input to hazard analyses, FMEA/FMECA, reliability assessments, and safety‑critical design decisions.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks; lead trade studies and technical decision analysis through design, development, qualification, and field support.
• Coordinate technical activities across internal engineering disciplines, suppliers, manufacturing/quality…