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Specialist, Systems Engineer

📍 Location
Tustin
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 04, 2026

About the Role

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...

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