Right. This one isn’t for someone who wants to quietly optimise a single subsystem and call it a day.

It’s for the person who walks into a complex engineering ecosystem and immediately starts asking:

“Why doesn’t this talk to that?”
…and then actually fixes it.

You’ll sit at the centre of a multi-partner robotics program, making sure a planetary exploration vehicle, a deployment system, and half a dozen organisations all behave like they were designed in the same room (they weren’t).

What you’ll actually be doing:

• Owning end-to-end systems integration across a highly complex robotics platform
• Making sure multiple engineering teams (local + international) are building something that actually fits together
• Translating competing requirements into one coherent system that works in reality, not just on slides
• Driving integration, test, and validation activities when things inevitably don’t line up
• Being the person who spots interface problems before they become expensive problems
• Running technical discussions where “that’s not my problem” is not an acceptable answer
• Working across multiple organisations and keeping everyone aligned, even when priorities conflict
• Representing the program in external technical conversations with industry partners

What you’ll need:

• Strong systems engineering background (integration + test is where you’ve lived)
• Comfort working across messy, multi-stakeholder environments
• The ability to stay calm when systems don’t behave like the documentation said they would
• Enough technical depth to challenge engineers, not just coordinate them
• Strong communication skills, you can explain problems in a clear and concise manner 
• Australian Citizenship required with eligibility for security clearance and ITAR compliant 

This is a high-ownership role in a genuinely complex program. If you like neat boundaries and single-team environments, this will annoy you.
If you like making complicated systems actually work together… you’ll probably enjoy it.

DM if you want the details.
nat@justdigitalpeople.com.au