# Systems Engineer III/IV (Launch Vehicles)

ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space - anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space. SUMMARY We welcome you to join the Firefly Systems Engineering Team as a Systems Engineer III/IV for Launch Vehicles, to leverage your creative and technical expertise at the vehicle level over the whole product lifecycle from requirement definition through production, verification & flight. On the Systems Engineering team, you will work directly with the Stage REs and System Configuration Engineers to establish high confidence in the reliability of our vehicles with a right-sized approac

- **Id**: 4216457
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/firefly-aerospace-systems-engineer-iiiiv-launch-vehicles>
- **Role**: Aerospace
- **Role family**: Aerospace
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cedar Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T02:55:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7026
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- **Benefits**: Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Launch Services, Aerospace Manufacturing, Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 63753
- **Name**: Firefly Aerospace
- **Domain**: fireflyspace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/firefly-aerospace-com>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Bitbucket** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T02:55:07Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 10
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T05:14:31Z

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