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Systems Engineering Manager

At ICEYE, we design, build and operate the largest fleet of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites in the world. Using advanced technology, our constellation collects topographical data about any location on Earth, day or night, through any weather conditions.

Headquartered in Southern California, our customers are society’s heroes – intelligence professionals, warfighters, first responders, and scientific researchers. As a trusted mission partner, the United States and its allies depend on us for critical information when it matters most.

Position Overview

ICEYE US is seeking an experienced Systems Engineering Manager to lead system-level design, requirements development, technical performance management, and verification and validation (V&V) across our space-based intelligence systems and programs.

Reporting directly to the senior executive in charge of Engineering, this position is responsible for establishing and maintaining cohesive system architectures, defining and managing Level 1 (L1) system requirements, and ensuring integrated systems meet their technical requirements and intended mission objectives.

The Systems Engineering Manager will serve as a cross-functional technical authority, working closely with Space Systems, Software Engineering, SAR Engineering, Assembly, Integration & Test (AIT), and Operations to ensure successful integration of complex hardware, software, and operational capabilities throughout the system lifecycle.

This role requires a hands-on technical leader who can balance engineering rigor with rapid execution, establish scalable systems engineering practices, and lead system-level technical activities across multiple concurrent programs.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership: Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing systems engineering team, establishing clear technical ownership, engineering discipline, and accountability across multiple concurrent programs.

System Architecture & Design: Own the development and maintenance of system-level architectures, functional allocations, designs, and technical baselines, ensuring all system elements integrate into a cohesive solution that satisfies mission objectives and customer needs.

Mission Analysis & CONOPS: Lead the development of mission concepts, concepts of operations (CONOPS), operational scenarios, and mission-level trade studies to establish system capabilities, operational approaches, and technical feasibility.

System Requirements: Lead the development, management, and configuration control of L1 system requirements, ensuring requirements are clear, measurable, verifiable, and traceable to customer and mission objectives.

Requirements Allocation & Traceability: Allocate system requirements to responsible engineering disciplines and maintain bidirectional traceability between customer needs, system requirements, subsystem requirements, and verification evidence.

Technical Performance Management: Own integrated system-level technical budgets, performance measures, and margins, including applicable mass, power, thermal, communications, pointing, data, and mission performance allocations. Monitor technical performance measures (TPMs) and key performance parameters (KPPs) throughout development.

System Modeling & Simulation: Lead integrated system-level modeling, simulation, and engineering analyses to evaluate architecture alternatives, predict system performance, validate technical assumptions, and support design decisions.

System-Level Verification & Validation: Own system-level V&V strategy, planning, execution coordination, compliance assessment, and closure, ensuring integrated systems meet approved requirements and intended operational needs.

System Integration & Test: Establish system-level integration and test strategies, coordinate integration activities across engineering disciplines, and define technical readiness criteria for major integration and verification milestones.