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System Engineer- LA

Kela · USA · On-site

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About Kela

Backed by Sequoia and Lux.

About the role

You'll be the connective tissue of our engineering team — owning the system-level architecture, requirements, and integration strategy across hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems. Our products are safety-critical, field-deployed systems built to demanding performance and reliability requirements. This role requires someone who can hold the big picture while diving into subsystem details when it matters.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of systems engineering experience on defense, aerospace, robotics, or other complex, safety-critical programs
  • Deep understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle: requirements development, architecture, ICD management, V&V planning, and qualification
  • Experience managing interfaces across hardware, embedded software, and mechanical subsystems
  • Comfort reading and authoring engineering documentation: interface control documents, test plans, hazard analyses, and SSPs
  • Proven ability to lead technical coordination across a multidisciplinary team
  • Working English, written and verbal
More about this role

About the role

You'll be the connective tissue of our engineering team — owning the system-level architecture, requirements, and integration strategy across hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems. Our products are safety-critical, field-deployed systems built to demanding performance and reliability requirements. This role requires someone who can hold the big picture while diving into subsystem details when it matters.

  • Own the system-level architecture: define how hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems interact, and document it in a way the whole team can build against.
  • Develop and maintain system requirements — derive subsystem requirements, manage traceability, and own the requirements baseline.
  • Lead integration planning: define interfaces, manage dependencies across subsystems, and coordinate bring-up and qualification activities.
  • Drive system-level verification and validation — test planning, execution, anomaly resolution, and sign-off.
  • Identify and track system-level risks; develop mitigations before they become fielding problems.
  • Serve as the technical lead in design reviews, interface control discussions, and customer/government technical...

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