Senior (Project) Engineer
Carlsbad, CA
Category: Engineer
Industry: Technology
Standard Hours: Open
Reference ID: JN -112026-109296
Date Posted: 11/01/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/XZurOm
Description:
On-site in Carlsbad, CA
Our client seeks a Senior Engineer operating as a Project Engineer on a fast-paced, multidisciplinary development program. The role requires systems-level thinking, broad technical capability, and coordination across hardware, software, integration, and test. The selected engineer will grow into sensing-focused ownership, align cross-functional teams, lead technical tradeoffs, and drive execution from concept through delivery.
Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen with an active Secret clearance. Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $100.00 to $120.00/hr. w2
JN -112026-109296
Responsibilities:
- Serve as Project Engineer for a major development effort, owning system-level technical coordination across multiple engineering disciplines.
- Define and maintain system architectures, interfaces, and technical requirements with consistency and traceability.
- Lead trade studies and decisions across performance, risk, schedule, and cost.
- Grow into ownership of sensing-related architectures, interfaces, and performance as program needs evolve.
- Work across hardware, firmware, software, mechanical, and test teams to ensure end-to-end system performance.
- Identify and resolve cross-domain technical issues at integration and interface boundaries.
- Guide designs for testability, reliability, manufacturability, and scalability.
- Develop understanding of sensor technologies, data acquisition, and system-level sensing performance.
- Partner with subject-matter experts to build depth and assume broader sensing technical leadership.
- Translate sensing behaviors and constraints into system requirements and integration strategies.
- Support technical planning, milestone definition, and risk management with program management.
- Provide technical feedback to schedules, resourcing, and build/test strategies.
- Track technical readiness and integration maturity across phases.
- Coordinate efforts across multiple teams in a matrixed environment and mentor engineers in systems thinking.
- Serve as a technical point of contact for engineering leadership and customers.
- Support definition of system-level test and validation strategies, including integration and performance testing.
- Assist with root-cause analysis and guide corrective actions while ensuring test results and field data inform design improvements.
Experience Requirements:
- 8-12+ years of experience in complex system or product development.
- Demonstrated ability to lead or coordinate multidisciplinary technical efforts.
- Strong systems engineering fundamentals across requirements, interfaces, and integration.
- Ability to learn new technical domains and operate in ambiguous environments.
- Effective communication and alignment across diverse technical teams.
- Travel up to 25% domestically.
- Ability to work on-site in Carlsbad, CA or Tempe, AZ in a hybrid model 3 days per week.
- US Citizenship required.
- Ability to obtain a United States Top Secret/SCI Clearance.
- Helpful: experience with sensor-enabled or data-driven systems, embedded systems, controls, data processing, or system integration.
- Helpful: experience as a Project Engineer, Lead Engineer, or Technical Lead.
- Helpful: experience delivering products through the full product lifecycle.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Software, Systems, or related). Master’s preferred.
- Active Secret Clearance required.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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· Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.
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