
Lead Spaceflight Hardware Systems Engineer
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METECS seeks a Lead Spaceflight Hardware Systems Engineer to provide systems engineering leadership across the development, integration, verification, qualification, acceptance, and delivery of spaceflight hardware. The role coordinates multidisciplinary hardware activities and works with customers, suppliers, contract manufacturers, and test facilities. The candidate must have significant experience developing high-reliability hardware and practical experience across requirements, interfaces, design trades, integration, verification, and testing.
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METECS is seeking an experienced Lead Spaceflight Hardware Systems Engineer to provide systems engineering leadership for the development, integration, verification, qualification, acceptance, and delivery of spaceflight hardware.
You will coordinate the development of integrated electromechanical and electronic hardware, bringing together mechanical, electrical, quality, manufacturing, supplier, and test activities. Your involvement in integration and test will help ensure that requirements and interfaces are clearly defined, understood, and verified.
Responsibilities:
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Lead systems engineering activities for spaceflight hardware development.
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Define and maintain hardware requirements, interfaces, technical baselines, and verification methods.
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Coordinate mechanical, electrical, quality, manufacturing, supplier, and test activities.
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Facilitate design trade studies and risk assessments; lead integration, troubleshooting, and anomaly resolution.
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Develop verification, qualification, and acceptance strategies and ensure supporting evidence satisfies applicable requirements.
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Lead or support key design, test-readiness, qualification, and acceptance reviews.
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Coordinate development activities with customers, suppliers, contract manufacturers, and test facilities.
Required Qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in systems, mechanical, electrical, aerospace, or a related engineering discipline.
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Significant experience developing aerospace, spaceflight, or other high-reliability electromechanical or electronic hardware through multiple phases of the development lifecycle.
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Demonstrated leadership in coordinating multidisciplinary hardware development.
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Practical experience with requirements development, interface definition, design trades, integration, verification, and test.
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Hands-on experience with hardware integration and troubleshooting.
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Excellent engineering judgment, communication, and collaboration skills.
Desired Qualifications:
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Experience with integrated electromechanical systems involving mechanisms, controls, sensors, electronics, or similar hardware.
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Familiarity with environmental qualification testing such as vibration, shock, thermal, thermal-vacuum, or EMI/EMC.
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Experience coordinating with specialized suppliers, contract manufacturers, or external test facilities.
Citizenship or lawful permanent residency required.
About METECS:
METECS provides engineering and applied technology solutions for NASA, commercial spaceflight, and other technically demanding applications. Our work spans human spaceflight, modeling and simulation, robotics, software, embedded systems, and system integration and test.
At METECS, technical professionals collaborate across disciplines to solve challenging engineering problems throughout the project lifecycle. Our size allows you to contribute beyond traditional discipline boundaries and see your direct impact on the solutions we deliver.
METECS is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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How this job compares
Set against the 11,823 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$107–180K/yr315 salary ranges
- US median$56–70/hr453 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 627 open Systems Engineer jobs in Texas and 11,823 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
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- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 4,496 of the 11,823 open Systems Engineer jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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