Director of Systems Engineering

• ◆Lead and develop a multidisciplinary Systems Engineering organization, establishing a culture of technical excellence, accountability, innovation, and collaboration.
• ◆Build and scale Systems Engineering processes, capabilities, and talent pipelines to support a growing product portfolio.
• ◆Serve as the senior system-level technical authority, providing architectural leadership and driving cross-functional technical trade-offs across performance, cost, schedule, manufacturability, and mission requirements.
• ◆Lead system architecture reviews, interface definition, technical trade studies, and risk management to identify and retire key technical and integration risks early.
• ◆Provide technical leadership across system integration, verification & validation, modeling, analysis, and test, ensuring system performance is measurable and validated against

and mission objectives.

• ✓Establish technical baselines, readiness criteria, documentation standards, and clear ownership across Systems Engineering, hardware, software, manufacturing, and test.
• ✓Partner closely with Hardware, Software, Manufacturing, Technical Program Management, and Chief Engineers to align technical strategy, product goals, resources, dependencies, and execution milestones.
• ✓Represent Systems Engineering in internal and external technical reviews and engage directly with customers and stakeholders to ensure solutions remain aligned with requirements, architecture, and mission objectives.
• ✓Plan and prioritize Systems Engineering resources and activities to support program milestones and business objectives.
• ✓Develop and scale Systems Engineering proposal and estimation capabilities, including technical scope, staffing, schedules, assumptions, risks, technical writing, and solution development.

Basic

• ✓BS or MS in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• ✓12+ years of Systems Engineering or closely related experience.
• ✓Demonstrated experience building, leading, or scaling a Systems Engineering organization.
• ✓Experience with DoD programs.
• ✓Active SECRET clearance or ability to obtain and maintain a SECRET clearance.

Experience making high-quality technical decisions in fast-moving, ambiguous, cross-functional

environments.

• ✓Experience with INCOSE standards, DoDAF, or comparable Systems Engineering frameworks.
• ✓Experience leading integration, V&V, test planning, execution, and analysis for complex products.
• ✓Experience scaling requirements, configuration, and lifecycle-management practices using modern
• ✓Systems Engineering/PLM tools (e.g., Jama, Polarion, DOORS).
• ✓Familiarity with MATLAB, Python, or similar engineering analysis.
• ✓Experience maturing Systems Engineering organizations and processes, with a product and customer/market-fit mindset

ITAR

• ✓To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here .

At Epirus, you’ll work with technical peers and great people—and get first crack at some of the defining technology challenges of our time. Here, “impossible” is just a challenge. We're a diverse, fast-growing team of change-makers fueling the future of energy with revolutionary solutions. Join us and rewrite the rules.

For the state of California only, the range of starting pay for this role is:

$247,800 — $276,500 USD