
Combat Survivor Evader Locater (CSEL) Systems Engineer (Experienced or Lead)
Huntington Beach, CAFull-time$120–198K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Boeing seeks an experienced or lead Systems Engineer for its CSEL Contractor Logistics Support team in Huntington Beach, California. The role designs, supports, and maintains ground-based infrastructure and associated RF, baseband, GPS, network, and computing systems. The engineer coordinates system and hardware changes, troubleshoots worldwide infrastructure, and works with engineering and security teams across the design lifecycle. The position is expected to be 100% onsite.
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Combat Survivor Evader Locater (CSEL) Systems Engineer (Experienced or Lead)
Company: The Boeing Company
Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Space, Intelligence & Weapons Systems (SI&WS) Organization is seeking a Combat Survivor Evader Locater (CSEL) Systems Engineer to join the CSEL Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) Systems Engineering team in Huntington Beach, CA. This organization supports Boeing’s CSEL Program, the world's premier search and rescue system.
We are looking for an experienced Systems Engineer to be responsible for the design, support, and maintenance of ground-based infrastructure. This position will include support of systems and hardware that includes RF, baseband, GPS, network, and computing devices. The selected candidate will integrate and coordinate system and hardware changes due to design updates, obsolescence, and software improvements. This role is a focal for designing, troubleshooting, and maintaining the world-wide infrastructure of the CSEL system and will be responsible for systems thinking, requirement design, creative problem solving, and tactical cross-IPT coordination. This role will work very closely with network engineers, software engineers, cybersecurity, and product security teammates and will be accountable for customer happiness and success throughout the entire design lifecycle.
Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Experienced or Lead Level Engineers.
Position Responsibilities:
- Applies an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop, and verify complex lifecycle balanced system of systems and system solutions.
- Evaluates customer/operational needs to define and coordinate system performance requirements, integrate technical parameters, and assure compatibility of all physical, functional, and program interfaces.
- Performs various analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture.
- Performs analyses for affordability, safety, reliability, maintainability, testability, human systems integration, survivability, vulnerability, susceptibility, system security, regulatory, certification, product assurance and other specialties quality factors into a preferred configuration to ensure mission success.
- Develops, maintains, and identifies improvements for the planning, organization, implementation, and monitoring of requirements management processes, tools, risk, issues, opportunity management, and technology readiness assessment processes.
- Resolves cross-functional technical issues.
This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at the listed location.
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
- This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement.
- 3+ years of experience working with hardware systems.
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
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Lead (Level 4): 5 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
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Military program experience.
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Cybersecurity; including SIPRNet, C2C, Zero Trust, ESS, Auto-Remediation.
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Product Security toolsets; including ACAS, Trellix, Splunk, Forescout.
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Experience working within a matrixed reporting organization.
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Familiar with PMBOK concepts and their practical applications.
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Knowledge of Agile development methodologies.
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Strong leadership, team building, and mentoring skills.
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Experience with USG and/or DoD/DoW projects.
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History of working projects through all phases of Systems and Hardware development, test, and fielding.
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Expertise in subsystem design, requirement allocation, and technical supplier management.
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Critical analysis and problem-solving skills across system, hardware, and software architectures.
Relocation: This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility. Note: Basic relocation will be offered for eligible internal candidates.
Conflict of Interest: Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
Drug Free Workplace: Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.
Pay & Benefits: At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Summary pay range for Experienced level (Level 3): $119,850 - $162,150 Summary pay range for Lead level (Level 4): $146,200 - $197,800
Language Requirements: Not Applicable
Education: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent
Relocation: This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.
Export Control Requirement: This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Safety Sensitive: This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.
Security Clearance: This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.
Visa Sponsorship: Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Contingent Upon Award Program This position is not contingent upon program award
Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America)
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How this job compares
Set against the 11,696 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$120–198K/yr
- California median$144–213K/yr1,807 salary ranges
- US median$116–190K/yr8,703 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $159K, is 10% below the California median midpoint ($177K) — in the middle half of Systems Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,112 open Systems Engineer jobs in California and 11,696 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (9,778 postings).
- Education
- 4,476 of the 11,696 open Systems Engineer jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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