# Payload Integration Engineer

Role: Payload Integration Engineer Location: San Diego, CA (in-office) Salary: $120,000 - $170,000 / yr + stock options, 401k matching, and other benefits Role Overview: Seasats’ unmanned surface vessels (USVs) operate at sea for months at a time, carrying a wide variety of payloads. Ensuring those payloads are correctly integrated, tested, and documented is critical to every mission we run. As a Payload Integration Engineer, you’ll support the integration of payloads onto our vehicles. You’ll work closely with engineers, the testing team, and cross-functional partners to help bring payloads from early development through testing and into production. This role is hands-on and detail-oriented, with an emphasis on learning, execution, and building repeatable processes. Role Details: You will be responsible for: Conducting research and testing to evaluate payload capabilities Understanding and designing electrical systems, components, and products Working closely with the sales team to translate customers’ system requirements into payload specifications Coordinating with engineers to develop test hardware, wiring harnesses, mechanical interfaces, etc. to build and test payload integra

- **Id**: 1310114
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/seasats-payload-integration-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: San Diego, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-07T17:52:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T09:10:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 96
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4919
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Naval Systems, Underwater & Marine Robotics

## Company

- **Id**: 2257692
- **Name**: Seasats
- **Domain**: seasats.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/seasats>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Breezy

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 120000
- **Max**: 170000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 170000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 96

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T15:32:26Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-10T23:44:39Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-12T03:26:20Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.662
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 96
- **Expected fill days**: 62
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:03:41Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 170000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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