
Open since Aug 2026
Perception Hardware Integration Engineer
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Integrates and qualifies multimodal missile seekers from prototype through production, owning the imaging chain, calibration, test infrastructure, and supply chain for a high-volume defense interceptor program.
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The Seeker Team builds the eyes and the targeting logic of our weapon system: a low-cost, mass-producible, multimodal missile seeker that leans on commercial supply chains where they outperform the defense legacy, with supply-chain security engineered in from day one. On a modern missile, the seeker is 40 to 60% of unit cost and often drives overly long delivery cycles; accordingly, the seeker team is at the tip of the spear for delivering value to our customers and to the taxpayer.
Seeker design has exactly two real constraints: physics and mission. Supply chain, vendor lead time, qualification cost, "the way it's always been done": none of that stops us. We are a small, deeply technical team that drives capability through ingenuity and bias for action and ships hardware that flies. This is a wear-many-hats environment where you must be comfortable "building the airplane in flight" and stepping well outside your comfort zone; a narrowly scoped role with clean handoffs is not what this team offers.
This is an AI-native team. Through fluent use of cutting-edge agentic coding tools, one engineer here consistently out-delivers a much larger conventional team. You will have opinions about where these tools help and where they do not, provide governance input, and build AI into your workflow from day one.
About the Role
You own the seeker as a working system, from the first prototype on the bench to every unit that follows. You take the capability architecture (cameras, compute, IMUs, power) and a specified, tested optical assembly, and make one working seeker out of them: integrated, brought up, calibrated, and qualified. First light on the first article is yours, and so is the discipline that makes build ten identical to build nine. You report to the seeker lead and work in tight partnership with the opto-mechanical engineer: they own how well the seeker sees; you own the seeker itself. This is a role for an engineer who has fielded complete camera or electro-optical products end to end, in an environment where escapes are not an option. Prior thermal infrared experience is preferred, but not strictly required.
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