Systems Engineer Mid-Level

Fuse Integration•San Diego, CA

13h

About The Position

Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments. We are a technology firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems. About This Role Fuse is seeking a Systems Engineer who thrives in innovative, integration-driven environments and is passionate about reducing uncertainty early in the development lifecycle. This role supports the definition, design, and de-risking of complicated tactical communication systems composed of hardware, software, networking, and RF components.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience
4–6 years of experience in complicated system development
Experience integrating hardware, software, and networking systems
Demonstrated ability to work in iterative, fast-paced development environments where requirements and architecture evolve as uncertainty is reduced
Experience integrating across hardware, software, networking, and RF domains in environments with shifting technical constraints
Experience working within a hypothesis-driven development environment where architectural assumptions are progressively tested through integration and test events
Ability to link detailed execution work to higher-level mission intent and architectural hypotheses
Active U.S. Secret Clearance

Nice To Haves

Experience with SysML, Cameo, or MBSE practices
Experience supporting modeling and simulation activities
Experience with requirements management tools (e.g., Jama, DOORS) and maintaining bidirectional traceability between requirements and validation artifacts
Familiarity with issue tracking and work management tools (e.g., Jira)
Experience working within digital engineering or model-informed development environments
Familiarity with agile development environments

Responsibilities

Contribute to refinement of mission intent and system scope
Surface assumptions and risks early in development
Support decomposition of customer requirements into system-level behaviors
Support system architecture and interface definition
Create and maintain system diagrams and interface documentation
Participate in trade studies and cross-discipline collaboration
Support modeling, simulation, and integration experiments
Assist in planning and executing integration and test events
Capture expected vs. observed behavior during testing
Support hypothesis testing through integration activities and capture expected vs. observed system behavior
Surface deviations that invalidate architectural assumptions and feed them back into system refinement
Support formal integration and system verification events
Ensure system behavior aligns with defined mission intent
Assist in documenting expected vs. observed outcomes
Participate in root cause analysis and corrective action planning
Help maintain traceability from mission threads through validation artifacts

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision
Employee coverage is fully funded; a portion of dependents' coverage is funded as well
11 paid Federal Holidays
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Date of hire through second year: 10 days/year (accrued)
After two years: unlimited
40 hours of paid sick leave per year
401k with employer matching
Annual bonuses
Cell phone reimbursement: $100/month