EO/IR Payload Integration Project Engineer

Agile Mission Systems (AMS) at GA-ASI in San Diego, CA a growing center of excellence in San Diego, CA - where innovation meets mission impact. We bring together high-performing technical experts and future leaders to develop, integrate, and field cutting-edge mission systems that meet the evolving needs of warfighters and decision-makers. You’ll work alongside a multidisciplinary team to drive strategic objectives, develop customer-facing relationships, and architect solutions that bring complex systems of systems together-delivering real-world mission outcomes.

The Payload Integration group addresses challenging problems by developing, integrating, fielding, supporting, and advancing mature technologies into payload solutions for GA-ASI platforms. Current payloads include Multi-Mode Radars, EO/IR systems, Advanced IRST, Electronic Warfare systems, Countermeasures, and Signal Intelligence sensors to deliver cutting-edge solutions to our customers.

This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer with a passion for innovation, a deep understanding of gimbal-stabilized EO/IR technologies, and the technical expertise to enhance and expand turreted multi-sensor optical payloads into new mission sets. This role focuses on the integration and mission expansion of gimbal-stabilized, turreted multi-sensor EO/IR payloads. Qualified candidates will bring hands-on expertise with optical platforms incorporating high-resolution EO cameras, IR sensors, laser rangefinders, and laser designators optimized for precision targeting, long-range surveillance, and real-time intelligence collection.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Integrate, optimize, and support gimbal-stabilized and turreted multi-sensor EO/IR payloads onto airborne platforms, ensuring seamless hardware and software performance.
• Demonstrated ability to develop expertise and become the subject matter expert and technological champion in the relevant capabilities
• Understanding of hardware and software management in addition to manufacturing principles to maintain a strategic product portfolio
• Implementing and maintaining cybersecurity standards for sensitive optical and sensor systems
• Leads diverse multi-function engineering teams, meeting critical program milestones, and successfully executing programs within the defined cost and schedule.
• Represents as the face of engineering for this payload ensure consistent/appropriate messaging as well as cross-communication between internal and external stakeholders.
• Supports engineering estimates and proposals during business development and shaping activities.
• Develops program plans, estimates, schedules and execute programs to ensure programmatic and technical success.
• Perform system analysis, trade studies, author technical white papers, and generate customer technical data packages.
• Complete, document, and present System Requirements Reviews (SRR), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), and Critical Design Reviews (CDR) and other technical reviews.
• Supports mission architecture implementations and designs and CONOP development.
• Supports payload compatibility and enhancement for open architecture initiatives (OMS, FACE, CESMO, etc.), Autonomy & Artificial Intelligence, fusion, track management, and other interoperability capabilities.
• Supports the development of test plans and manage the integration, verification and validation new capabilities and technologies.
• Supports development of business/strategic objectives and system concept-of-operations