Top Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

Lead architecture, requirements, systems integration, and flight testing for next-generation autonomous UAS platforms. Define system behavior, modes, fault responses, and subsystem requirements; use MBSE tools for modeling and trade studies; integrate avionics, autonomy, propulsion, sensors, and mission systems; support safety analysis, performance validation, airworthiness, and operational deployment. Collaborate with engineering teams, DoD stakeholders, industry partners, and government agencies to deliver mission-ready aircraft.

Design, build, and operate the Linux-based edge appliance runtime and distributed control plane. Implement secure networking dataplanes (IPsec, MASQUE, eBPF), reliable fleet control and remote lifecycle management, telemetry and diagnostics, and drive product-focused technical leadership from architecture through rollout and incident response.

Owns the design, deployment, governance, and operation of enterprise AI platforms and employee-facing agents. Builds secure control layers including identity, access, device, tenant, MCP, secrets, logging, rate limiting, and cost controls. Establishes AI lifecycle processes, evaluates and rolls out new tools, operates infrastructure to SRE standards, and develops telemetry, dashboards, runbooks, and incident response. Partners with Security, Legal, Privacy, and IT teams to translate governance requirements into enforceable technical controls.

Develop and qualify inertial navigation systems across the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include sensor calibration, performance evaluation, simulations, numerical data analysis, systems integration, verification, trade studies, FMEA, root-cause analysis, requirements development, technical documentation, design reviews, customer communication, and cross-functional engineering collaboration. Provide technical guidance to junior team members and support proposals, certification, and aerospace program delivery.

Own the architecture, analysis, design, integration, testing, and flight validation of aircraft Environmental Control Systems. Perform thermal-fluid trade studies, system sizing, modeling, CAD design, supplier management, test planning, instrumentation, flight-data analysis, troubleshooting, and rapid hardware iteration for a special access aerospace program.

Lead the technical direction for Atlassian’s Search Serving platform, building globally scalable, low-latency agentic search systems. Own architecture for retrieval, indexing, query processing, and ML inference while improving quality, reliability, scalability, operability, and cost. Establish production ML practices for evaluation, experimentation, observability, rollouts, and incident response. Optimize inference for embedding, retrieval, and ranking models, and lead cross-team initiatives while mentoring senior engineers and aligning technical leaders.

Owns the design and qualification of flight-control actuation systems for a Group 5 UAV fighter aircraft. Responsibilities include requirements ownership, actuator sizing and dynamic analysis, control-law integration, power, thermal and structural integration, supplier execution, qualification testing, hardware delivery, and technical reviews through SRR, PDR, and CDR.

Designs and validates AI, compute, storage, networking, and accelerator hardware platforms from concept through datacenter deployment. Responsibilities include analyzing interfaces, developing integration and test plans, debugging system-level issues, evaluating power and performance, defining hardware-firmware-software requirements, assessing technical risks, and collaborating with architecture, silicon, firmware, operating system, manufacturing, validation, and customer teams.

Design and develop complex mechanical and actuated systems for autonomous UAVs, including CAD, structural and kinematic analysis, FEA, tolerance analysis, prototyping, testing, and production release. Collaborate across engineering teams, support aircraft integration and flight testing, ensure reliability and performance goals, mentor junior engineers, and provide technical direction.

Lead architecture, requirements, behavior modeling, safety analysis, CONOPs, integration, and testing for a launch and recovery vehicle supporting autonomous UAS operations. Integrate avionics, hydraulics, power, navigation, mechanical, electrical, and data interfaces while coordinating cross-functional teams, DoD stakeholders, and industry partners. Define transport, deployment, field operations, and sustainment concepts for a mission-ready system.

Lead avionics architecture, requirements, system behavior, safety, interface management, navigation, communications, and hardware/software integration for autonomous UAS platforms. Define MBSE models, conduct trade studies, integrate avionics data buses and sensor systems, support flight testing and validation, and ensure compliance with military and aviation standards. Collaborate with autonomy, software, hardware, manufacturing, flight operations, suppliers, and DoD stakeholders from clean-sheet development through first flight and deployment.

Own Salesforce architecture and GTM systems for Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success. Design scalable solutions, govern multi-instance Salesforce, support quote-to-cash and AI-driven GTM builds, build automation (Flows, Apex, LWC), integrate Salesforce tools, lead stakeholder alignment, and manage end-to-end implementations from discovery through rollout and adoption.

Build and operate AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a containerized compliance evidence pipeline. Responsibilities include Terraform-based infrastructure, CI/CD, container deployment, monitoring, incident response, immutable evidence storage, networking, secrets, TLS/PKI, autoscaling, and technical security-control documentation supporting an ATO. The role also manages secure connectivity, release traceability, capacity planning, and operational runbooks in a regulated federal environment.

Designs, deploys, administers, and troubleshoots Linux-based infrastructure supporting US Antarctic Program systems. Responsibilities include RHEL administration, virtualization, OpenShift clusters, backups, monitoring, security hardening, automation, DNS, Git, documentation, technical leadership, and 24x7 escalation support. The role may involve temporary Antarctic deployments and requires U.S. citizenship, Public Trust clearance, and NSF physical and dental examinations.

Provides advanced systems engineering for NETGEAR ProAV customers across the North Central U.S. Responsibilities include customer onboarding, technical training, AV-over-IP solution design, field troubleshooting, commissioning, pre-sales support, system demonstrations, automation tool development, documentation, and industry presentations. The role requires expertise in multicast networking, timing protocols, AV technologies, multi-vendor integrations, and complex deployments, with travel of up to 60%.

Leads mechanical integration of aircraft subsystems from concept through production, including installation architecture, equipment packaging, routing, interface definition, drawings, tolerance analyses, and manufacturing support. Coordinates multidisciplinary teams, suppliers, prototype builds, and production issue resolution. Designs complex machined, composite, fabricated, and sheet-metal assemblies; supports technical planning and risk management; and mentors junior engineers in CAD, GD&T, installation design, and engineering practices.

Lead and contribute to the design, integration, deployment, and sustainment of mission-focused systems. Translate stakeholder needs into technical requirements, architectures, interface definitions, deployment patterns, and operational processes. Partner with software engineers and data scientists to integrate applications, data pipelines, infrastructure, and external systems. Support testing, verification, troubleshooting, operational readiness, documentation, and reliability improvements for secure, scalable, data-intensive systems.

Lead the design, development, and operation of highly available, multi-tenant data platform services on Kubernetes, including Postgres, messaging, streaming, and key-value systems. Define distributed-systems architecture, failover, disaster recovery, scalability, observability, and SLOs. Build operators, controllers, automation, and self-service APIs; lead major technical initiatives; resolve reliability risks; collaborate across engineering teams; and mentor engineers.

Develops and validates hardware systems for Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing system validation plans, test frameworks, automation, debugging methodologies, and benchmarking tools for CPU/GPU server platforms. The role performs hands-on laboratory validation, troubleshoots hardware, firmware, driver, and operating-system issues, collaborates with OEMs and ODMs, and develops software, libraries, and drivers. It also supports DevOps activities and occasional production on-call resolution.

Leads complex electrical engineering programs involving PCB and superconducting integrated circuit development, supplier and manufacturing engagements, validation, process improvement, budgets, schedules, resource planning, and cross-functional execution. Partners with engineering, supply chain, fabrication, and leadership teams to deliver hardware milestones, improve quality and manufacturing readiness, manage risks, and mentor team members.

Design, develop, operate, and improve highly scalable Git repository services and microservices. Lead technical designs, code reviews, incident response, deployments, and postmortems while mentoring engineers and partnering cross-functionally. The role focuses on distributed systems, high availability, observability, developer tooling, and reliable GitHub infrastructure supporting large-scale AI-driven software development.

Lead aerospace systems engineering and certification activities for complex, regulated systems. Develop system and component requirements, qualification plans, and compliance artifacts; support FAA conformity, airworthiness, certification audits, and coordination with DERs, ODA representatives, and FAA personnel. Apply ARP4754, DO-178, DO-254, DO-160, applicable CFR requirements, and MIL-STD practices. Collaborate cross-functionally with clients and engineering teams, with occasional customer-site travel.

Lead end-to-end electrical engineering initiatives (PCB and superconducting ICs), manage supplier and manufacturing engagements, develop PCB/process/DFM/DFT workflows, coordinate cross-functional hardware teams, own program schedules, budgets, resource planning, and mentor junior engineers to deliver high-quality hardware on aggressive timelines.

Designs and delivers EPMS, electrical telemetry, and industrial controls solutions for Microsoft AI datacenters. Responsibilities include defining instrumentation and communications requirements, configuring EPMS hardware and networks, developing system integrations, testing and commissioning technologies, troubleshooting complex electrical and controls issues, producing technical documentation, and coordinating with multidisciplinary engineering, vendor, commissioning, and deployment teams.

Design and build AI-powered systems, agentic platforms, distributed services, and cloud infrastructure for Azure PostgreSQL. Develop capabilities for context understanding, planning, tool use, knowledge retention, collaboration, and reliable execution at scale. Integrate AI into developer workflows, drive features from architecture through production, and ensure quality, security, observability, and operational readiness. Collaborate across engineering, product, and research teams while contributing technical direction, reviews, best practices, and mentorship.