Lead Program Systems Engineer, Cyclops (remote considered)
Longwall · Long Beach, California
Posted 22 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 22 days Longwall's roles stay open a median of 82 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Longwall's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Longwall
- high 22 stale, 0 reposted of 30 open
- Hiring momentum
- 31 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-25
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Longwall's own lever board since 2026-08-04. Full hiring picture for Longwall.
About this role
The Lead Program Systems Engineer for the Cyclops Interceptor Program is responsible for overseeing system level requirements, architecture, interface definition, and verification planning. This role involves collaborating with various engineering teams to ensure that all aspects of the interceptor align with a coherent system design, while maintaining traceability and stability of requirements and interfaces.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- US person status (including US citizens, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted U.S. asylum status, or individuals admitted in U.S. refugee status)
- Experience in systems engineering for missile defense or related fields
- Ability to manage system level requirements and architecture
- Experience with verification planning and interface definition
Worth weighing
- Position requires ITAR compliance, limiting applicant pool to US persons
- Role involves significant responsibility and ownership, which may lead to high expectations
- Focus on missile defense technology may not appeal to all engineers
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Listed by Longwall on their lever job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-25. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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