
Systems Engineer, Lead
El Segundo, CAFull-time$99–225K/yrPosted 5 days agoStill listed today
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Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a lead systems engineer to apply technical skills and big-picture thinking to space communication systems. The role involves understanding customer environments and translating real-world needs into technical specifications for customer-focused engineering solutions. Candidates need extensive systems engineering and hardware-software integration experience on DoD satellite systems, a Secret clearance, and a relevant bachelor's degree.
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Systems Engineer, LeadThe Opportunity: Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on space communication systems? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer focused engineering solution.
Join us. The world can’t wait.
You Have:
- 10+ years of experience performing systems engineering and Hardware-Software Integration (HSI) on DoD satellite systems
- Experience performing systems engineering for satellite systems or ground systems
- Experience using a model-based systems engineering or digital engineering approach to manage system definitions and technical baselines
- Experience using Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Ability to interact well in cross-functional team meetings and professional environments
- Ability to work collaboratively and independently, demonstrating initiative to complete complex tasks
- Secret clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or CS
Nice If You Have:
- 2+ years of experience with military SATCOM systems
- 2+ years of experience with space acquisition
- Experience with a software program utilizing Agile methodologies
- Experience with Confluence or Jira
- Experience working with software factories or DevSecOps pipelines
- Ability to learn and solve problems quickly and creatively
- Top Secret clearance
- Master's degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or CS
- Agile Certification such as CSM, CPO, PMI-ACP, or ICP Certification
- INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional Certifications such as ASEP, CSEP, or ESEP Certification
Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.
Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.
Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. Identity Statement As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
Candidate AI Usage Policy AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.
Work Model Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.
- Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
- Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
- Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.
Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.
How this job compares
Set against the 11,868 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$99–225K/yr
- California median$145–213K/yr1,785 salary ranges
- US median$115–190K/yr8,798 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $162K, is 9% below the California median midpoint ($178K) — in the middle half of Systems Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,087 open Systems Engineer jobs in California and 11,868 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Anduril268 open
- Northrop Grumman194 open
- The Boeing Company99 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,801 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 4,398 of the 11,868 open Systems Engineer jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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