💼 Full-Time Position

Specialist, Systems Engineer

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Virgin Galactic
📍 Tustin, CA, United States
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Location
Tustin, United States
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Posted
June 10, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Virgin Galactic is seeking a Specialist, Systems Engineer to lead the team responsible for designing, developing, and verifying our groundbreaking spaceflight systems. Guided by our values, “Safety Above All”, we proactively manage the risks inherent in human spaceflight through our daily actions in the design and assembly efforts. This role combines technical and people leadership — driving engineering excellence while developing and helping support a team of talented systems engineers.

**Responsibilities**

+ Lead, mentor, and help develop a high-performing systems engineering team.
+ Drive requirements management: capture, decomposition, allocation, traceability, and change control from concept through verification.
+ Oversee system architecture definition, modeling, and interface control to ensure seamless integration across subsystems.
+ Lead verification and validation planning, execution, and documentation in compliance with aerospace standards.
+ En...