
Engineering Support Engineer
El Segundo, CAFull-time$87–198K/yrPosted 1w agoStill listed today
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Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an engineering support professional for its Space Sensing Systems Engineering and Integration team, supporting military space programs. The role contributes to developing and deploying Overhead Persistent Infrared systems capabilities, including technical assessments, integration plans, and verification plans for ground and satellite systems. The engineer will research requirements, technologies, and threats and apply engineering methodologies and tools to support national security space missions.
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Engineering Support EngineerThe Opportunity: Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national security space missions? 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. If this sounds like you, come join Booz Allen’s new Space Sensing Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) team to work on the military’s space programs.
As a Systems Engineer on our team, you will work with Booz Allen colleagues and the military to develop and deploy the next generation of Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) systems capabilities to deliver critical information to our warfighters. Your client will trust you to develop technical assessments, integration plans, and verification plans, for ground and satellite systems. You will grow your skills by researching new requirements, technologies, and threats and using innovative engineering methodologies and tools to create tomorrow’s solutions.
Join us. The world can't wait.
You Have:
- 7+ years of experience performing systems engineering for acquisitions programs
- Experience working on an Air Force or Space Force base
- Experience coordinating, collaborating, and briefing military leaders, government civilians, and cross-contractor integration teams
- Experience communicating and coordinating between the client, your team, related teams, and leadership
- Secret clearance
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field
Nice If You Have:
- Knowledge of Missile Warning and OPIR
- Possession of excellent leadership skills
- Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
- TS/SCI clearance
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 $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (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 11,779 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$87–198K/yr
- California median$140–210K/yr1,660 salary ranges
- US median$115–187K/yr8,747 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $142K, is 18% below the California median midpoint ($175K) — in the lowest quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,949 open Systems Engineer jobs in California and 11,779 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Northrop Grumman197 open
- Anduril159 open
- The Boeing Company100 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (9,741 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 4,409 of the 11,779 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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