Senior Systems Engineer

Voyager Technologies, Inc. · San Diego, CA

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $165,000 – $205,000
  • Posted 2026-10-28
  • Confirmed live on 29 October 2026

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Voyager is an innovative space, defense, and national security 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 to lead in the race for technological and operational superiority from ground to space.

Forge the Future: Join Voyager Technologies

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 Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for planning, leading and conducting system requirements development, system design, system integration, qualification, testing and oversight of the entire life cycle of our Compute, Camera, and Radio portfolios.

The position reports to the Systems Engineering Manager and is part of the Engineering department based in San Diego, CA. This role is fully onsite.

In this role, the essential functions are:

• 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 compute, camera, and radio products.

If your experience aligns with our basic qualifications and you are inspired by our mission, we’d like to connect. If you don’t see the right role right now, Join Our Talent Community and stay connected as we continue to build what’s next.

• 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

• Familiarity with requirements management software (e.g. JAMA, DOORS, etc.)

• Leadership experience with a proven ability to drive projects and teams to successful 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, PowerPC, x86, TI-DSP, 8051, etc, using RTOSes or bare metal.

• 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, RS-422/232, SPI, CameraLink, SpaceWire, Ethernet, CAN, etc

• Experience with programming, particularly in C, C++, Python or other scripting and test languages

Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance at the level required for the position and applicable government contract. The position also requires appropriate access eligibility and a need-to-know. Clearance eligibility is determined by the U.S. Government.

The good faith base salary range for this role is $165,000-$205,000 at the time of this posting. Where you fall within the range depends on your experience, skills, and location. This range reflects base salary only and does not include benefits or bonus/incentive. This range may be adjusted in the future.

Voyager offers a highly competitive total compensation package designed to support the well-being, growth, and success of our employees. Employees benefit from a flexible and comprehensive rewards program that supports both professional and personal well-being.

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