Systems Engineer V MSAD
Public U.S. defense and space technology company providing mission-critical propulsion, electronics, mission-management, spectrum-intelligence, and lunar-space systems.
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About Voyager Technologies, Inc.
Voyager Technologies operates across national security and space infrastructure, including propulsion and energetics, spacecraft guidance and communications, orbital and lunar systems, mission operations, and AI-enabled spectrum intelligence. Its enterprise includes lunar robotic-mobility capability through the July 2026 acquisition of Astrobotic.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will serve as a senior technical authority for modeling and control-system efforts across propulsion and aerospace programs. You will lead system architecture and algorithm development, performance studies, technical trade-offs, customer reviews, multidisciplinary engineering work, technical documentation, and mentoring.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain and maintain an active DoD Secret Clearance
- 10–15 years of modeling, simulation, control-system, or algorithm-development experience in aerospace or defense
- Expertise in dynamic modeling, control-system design, and simulation architecture
- Experience in propulsion performance modeling, including solid rocket motors and controllable solids technology
- Experience with physics-based modeling of mechanical, thermal, and aerodynamic systems
- Understanding of flight-trajectory constraints and their effect on propulsion modeling and control design
- Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related STEM field
- Mastery of MATLAB/Simulink, Python, or equivalent modeling and control tools
- Advanced understanding of classical and modern control techniques, including state-space control
- Model verification, validation, and system-architecture integration skills
- Ability to generate SysML diagrams
- Ability to travel up to 10%
- Ability to work in secure or classified environments
Responsibilities
- Lead development of high-fidelity system models and control algorithms for propulsion, guidance, and flight-control systems
- Develop simulation architectures for aerospace control-system design, verification, and validation
- Perform controllability studies of dynamic systems
- Architect control-system topologies and gain-tuning methodologies
- Lead performance engineering, requirements derivation, margin management, and performance trades
- Conduct Monte Carlo and sensitivity studies
- Lead ballistics modeling and solid rocket motor performance analysis
- Lead modeling and performance assessments of propulsion-control actuation systems
- Create, validate, and deploy estimation techniques
- Extend capabilities in state-space and modern control strategies
- Guide modeling and simulation strategy for new programs and proposals
- Provide technical oversight across GNC, software, systems, and test disciplines
- Interface with customers and support technical milestone reviews
- Mentor junior engineers and review technical documentation
- Lead technical trade studies and technology-maturation planning
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus plan
- Paid time off
- Comprehensive health benefit package
- Retirement savings
- Wellness program
- Various other benefits