Principal EO/IR Systems Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in Melbourne, Florida, United States; approximately 10% travel required.

Salary: $98,400–$147,600 annual base salary.

Company

hirify.global presents this opportunity on behalf of a partner company developing advanced aerospace technologies and mission-critical EO/IR systems.

What you will do

• Design EO/IR system architectures, including hardware/software integration, testing, certification, and requirements analysis.
• Decompose, derive, allocate, document, and trace requirements from system level through component-level architectures.
• Conduct architecture trade studies, performance analyses, technology readiness assessments, and supplier technology evaluations.
• Apply MBSE practices to model requirements, interfaces, behaviors, structures, and parametric relationships.
• Manage supplier specifications, technical assessments, design reviews, acquisition, qualification, integration, and testing activities.
• Plan and execute laboratory, ground, and flight testing to verify and validate subsystem requirements and support final system sell-off.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with at least 5 years of related professional or military engineering experience; equivalent alternatives include a master’s degree with 3 years or a Ph.D. with 1 year of relevant experience.
• Knowledge of EO/IR phenomenology and experience working with electro-optical or infrared systems.
• Experience decomposing, deriving, allocating, and tracing technical requirements across system and component levels.
• Strong communication, analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for positions requiring government clearance.
• Willingness to work on-site in Melbourne, Florida and travel approximately 10% of the time.

Nice to have

• Experience with EO/IR system or atmospheric modeling, laboratory testing, hardware/software verification, or concept development.
• Familiarity with MBSE and SysML tools such as Cameo, plus Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with Agile development, engineering scheduling, technical proposal development, supplier specifications, and subcontract management.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site professional environment with a 9/80 schedule and every other Friday off.
• Vacation and personal PTO, company-paid holidays, health insurance, life and disability insurance options.
• Retirement savings plan and additional retirement benefits.
• Relocation assistance may be available for eligible candidates.
• Career development through work on advanced aerospace technologies with multidisciplinary engineering and scientific teams.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed through hirify.global’s AI-powered matching process.
• The shortlisted candidates are shared with the hiring company, which manages interviews, assessments, and subsequent steps.